She waited an instant for these tints to materialise, but Miss Howe's smile slid discreetly into her wine-glass instead.
She was almost discordant in her literalness, in her clear olive tints and the kol smudges under her eyes, the string of coins in the mass of her fallen hair, and her unfettered body.
Like a great mother, asleep, spread with a coverlet of the changing tints of malachite and beryl, South America lay before us.
The same sun kissed into rose tints the turrets of our castles in Spain and the lofty summits of the Spanish Main.
A rose, withtints unknown a century ago, has proved a stepping-stone to the discoverer's fortune.
She walked away after this amiable wish, and I stood by the pond till the salmon tints faded from its waters and stars began to mirror themselves brokenly in its ripples.
The brilliant sunshine streamed about her, burnishing the rich tints of her hair into ruddy gold.
Across the soft, pearly tints of the horizon blurred the smoke of the big factory chimneys that were owned by Mr. Walters, to whom the pond and adjacent property also belonged.
No spirit of decay had as yet shed a gorgeous breath over its deep, rich green, but all was wet with dew, and kindled up by the sunlight to a thousand varying tints of the same color.
Many fans are painted in a brownish black ink with the flesh-tints in red; in others several colours are introduced, thus anticipating the modern process of coloured etching.
This, upon its introduction, caused a complete revolution in the 'eventail de luxe'; the magnificent rainbow tints of this pearl are said to be further enhanced by a process invented by M.
As the painter becomes aware of what at first he had ignored, he adds colour to outline, modelling to colour, and finally an observant rendering of tints and values.
Our minds have fed on casual aspects of nature, like tints in sunset clouds.
The initiated eye sees so many nameless tints and surfaces, that it can no longer select any creative limits for things.
The Selbys' shrubbery had changed from the vigorous greens of summer to russet, paling here into sulphur yellow, there deepening to orange and crimson which outshone the less vivid tints of the early chrysanthemums.
And so the afternoon passed with much suffering in two souls, and the rainbow tints of the evening came over the sky.
The curtains and chair coverings were of the most superb old blue silk, faded now to a wonderful greenish tone, and harmonizing with the beautiful Savonnerie carpet with its soft tints of citron and puce and green.
The next presents a fretwork of fine film, wrought by the south wind over the whole sky, iridescent with delicate rainbow tints within the influences of the sun, and ever-changing shape.
What air-tints of lilac, orange, and pale amethyst are shed upon those vast ethereal hills and undulating plains!
Then the larches begin to put on sallow tints that deepen into orange, burning against the solid blue sky like amber.
Sullenly outstretched asleep it lay beneath us, coloured with the tints of fluor-spar, or with the changeful green and azure of a peacock's breast.
In the evening, violet and purpletints and the golden glow of Italian sunset lend a different lustre to the fairyland.
We drove back to Samaden across the silent snow, enjoying those delicate tints of rose and violet and saffron which shed enchantment for one hour over the white monotony of Alpine winter.
Palermo has none of the glaring whiteness of Naples, nor yet of that particoloured gradation of tints which adds gaiety to the grandeur of Genoa.
The breadth of golden, brown, and russet tints upon the valley at this moment adds softness to its lines of level strength.
Whether it be purple golden summer, or winter with sad tints of russet woods and faintly rosy snows, or spring attired in tenderest green of new-fledged trees and budding flowers, the air is always pure and light and finely tempered here.
From the railway station we walked above half a mile to the Albergo del Sole under a lucid heaven of aqua-marine colour, with Venus large in it upon the border line between the tints of green and blue.
The land waves far and wide with young corn, emerald green beneath the olive-trees, which take upon their under-foliage tints reflected from this verdure or red tones from the naked earth.
Sometimes we seem to see a quaint design of Piero di Cosimo, with bright tints and multitudinous small figures in a spacious landscape.
By the roadside too were many berries of bright hues; the glowing red of haws and hips, the amber of the pyracanthus, the rose tints of the spindle-wood.
The disc or surface of the hymenium is often brightly coloured in the genus Peziza; tints of orange, red, and brown having the predominance.
In his little memoranda, done in five minutes, the lines were laid just as deliberately as the tints on an elaborate picture; the difference being in choice only, not in speed.
It is noticeable that the outlines of hills, and the whole bulk of them at the distance of several miles, become stronger, denser, and more substantial in this autumn atmosphere and in these autumnal tints than in summer.
The artist painted awhile; but soon found that he had not so much light as was desirable, and complained that his tints were as muddy as the weather.
But there was nothing inharmonious; and, on closer examination, it appeared that all the tints had a relationship among themselves.
The effect is harmonious, though the tints are flat, and in spite of the absence of all modelling in the figures.
For the nests of these birds are either in evergreen, or holly, or ivy, or surrounded by the delicate green tints of early spring vegetation, and may thus harmonise very well with the colours around them.
Among birds, no instances of warning colouration have been recorded, though Professor Poulton has suggested that possibly the striking and contrasted tints of many tropical species may be due to this cause.
The single large leaf, of exquisite bronzy tints when young, is compounded of from three to five oval, toothed leaflets on each of its three divisions.
The dull red and green seed-balls, which take on brown and bronzetints after frost, make beautiful additions to an autumn bouquet.
In September, when small clusters of dark-purple berries replace the flowers, and richtints dye the leaves, the plant is truly beautiful - of course to invite migrating birds to disperse its seeds.
For herself, when she would allow her thoughts to stray for a moment in that direction, all the bright azure tints of heaven were open to her.
She had been a blind fool, and blind fools deserved no azure tints of heaven.
Above us spreads The purple sky, bright with the unseen sun The hills yet screen, although the golden beam Touches the topmost boughs, and tints with light The grey and sparkling crags.
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tintsto harmonize the scene.
Her little arts a fretful sire to please, Her gentle gaiety, and native ease Had won his soul; and rapturous Fancy shed Her golden lights, and tints of rosy red.
Still must it trace (the flattering tints forgive) Each fleeting charm that bids the landscape live.
Indeed, it flashed on him at once that all the perfection he had imagined, all the beauty of which he had dreamed, stood before him in the warm tints of life, though to his heated fancy she seemed more than a being of flesh and blood.
In some of the gullies and hollows there were beautiful green and other coloured fishes, and the form and tints of many of the zoophytes were admirable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
