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Familiar Quotations

Tinting – "Colored"

The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.–Anonymous

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.–Napoleon Bonaparte

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.–Frederick Douglass

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.–Germaine Greer

Tinting – "Dyeing"

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.–Frederick Douglass

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?–Saint Jerome

Use in Literature

Tinting

The orange tints of the sun streaked the sky; the last star flickered out.–Mariano Azuela in The Underdogs [Mexican Revolt].

Cibot might have sat as a model to Rubens. Those flesh tints reminded you of the appetizing sheen on a pat of Isigny butter; but plump as she was, no woman went about her work with more agility.–Honoré de Balzac in Cousin Pons (tr Ellen Marriage).

Dear, I felt the limbs relaxing; the writhings ceased, the child stirred, and the ghastly, corpselike tints faded away! I screamed, just as I did when he was taken ill; the doctors hurried up, and I pointed to Armand.–Honoré de Balzac in Letters of Two Brides.

Devotion had cast a monastic tone upon the face, formerly so hard, but now marked with tints which softened its expression.–Honoré de Balzac in The Hated Son (tr Katharine Prescott Wormeley).

Mademoiselle des Touches showed the utmost fear; a sudden flush colored her impassible face with tints of fire.–Honoré de Balzac in Beatrix.

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Tinting – "Colored" 1
• Tinting – "Dyeing" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Tinting 2
• Tinting – "Air" 8
• Tinting – "Appearance" 9
• Tinting – "Autumnal" 10
• Tinting – "Beauty" 11
• Tinting – "Black" 12
• Tinting – "Blue" 12
• Tinting – "Bright" 14
• Tinting – "Changing" 14
• Tinting – "Clouds" 15
• Tinting – "Color" 16
• Tinting – "Colours" 17
• Tinting – "Dark" 19
• Tinting – "Dyeing" 19
• Tinting – "Eyes" 21
• Tinting – "Glowing" 22
• Tinting – "Great" 23
• Tinting – "Green" 23
• Tinting – "Hand" 24
• Tinting – "Head" 25
• Tinting – "Large" 25
• Tinting – "Life" 26
• Tinting – "Little" 26
• Tinting – "Men" 27
• Tinting – "Morning" 28
• Tinting – "Nature" 28
• Tinting – "Night" 29
• Tinting – "Particularly" 30
• Tinting – "Passing" 30
• Tinting – "Riches" 31
• Tinting – "Rose" 32
• Tinting – "Shadows" 32
• Tinting – "Soft" 33
• Tinting – "Sweet" 34
• Tinting – "Trees" 34
• Tinting – "Various" 35
• Tinting – "Walls" 36
• Tinting – "Warm" 37
• Tinting – "Water" 37
• Tinting – "Windows" 38
• Nonfiction Usage 40
• Journalism Usage 40
• Patent Usage 40
• Bibliographic Usage 45
• Encyclopedic Usage 50
• Lexicographic Usage 51
• Index 64