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  • From the depths of his memory arose a tingling sadness, fragile and pure like morning dew, tinged with a rosy hue.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, at the Maly Theatre, where Anna Urbanova—in a wig tinged with gray—was appearing as Irina Arkadina in Chekhov's The Seagull, the audience let out muted exclamations of concern.†   (source)
  • I admired my uncle Dan above all other men, but when he spoke of his Catholic acceptance of evolutionary theory, my admiration became tinged with suspicion.†   (source)
  • Her voice was tinged with bitterness.†   (source)
  • They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.†   (source)
  • We both stared at her hands, which were pink tinged, even in the tropical warmth of our house.†   (source)
  • When he spoke, it was with a tinge of guile and tenderness.†   (source)
  • Even those who are not sick have eyes tinged with yellow.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt a familiar tinge of wonder as his eyes made a futile attempt to absorb the entire mass of the edifice.†   (source)
  • The voices were odd, tinged with echo; some of the words were completely foreign—others felt familiar.†   (source)
  • Bod looked up at the city, and was horrified: an emotion engulfed him that mingled repulsion and fear, disgust and loathing, all tinged with shock.†   (source)
  • His voice seemed suddenly tinged with worry.†   (source)
  • The men were in chest-high water now, some of them carrying rifles above their heads, and they were dropping into seas already tinged pink by the blood of other men in front of them.†   (source)
  • Under ordinary circumstances Dell would have turned on the TV to some kind of reality show, and after consuming the meat loaf and enough wine, he would have fallen asleep, usually with his mouth open, which inevitably served as a spout for pink-tinged saliva.†   (source)
  • Suspicion must tinge my voice.†   (source)
  • As I lean my head back, the world drifts away, tinged by the smell of Freon and Cadillac leather.†   (source)
  • From the way Chaol said "used to" with a tinge of sadness, she assumed much had been lost.†   (source)
  • She leaned over my shoulder as she turned the stiff pages, looking for a certain picture but pausing to linger over others, her voice tinged with dreamy nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Scarlet-tinged spittle flew from the fat innkeep's mouth as she begged of Catelyn Stark, "Don't kill him here!"†   (source)
  • The sky above the circumference of the jungle is tinged a uniform pink.†   (source)
  • She knew what he had been thinking and felt a tinge of amusement at how young he seemed.†   (source)
  • Cal meets my eyes, a silver blush tingeing his cheeks.†   (source)
  • Roses grew along the iron fence, and near the house towered a gigantic elm tree, perhaps older than the building itself, its green leaves tinged with the first yellows of autumn.†   (source)
  • But when he speaks, his voice has a sad tinge to it.†   (source)
  • Lingering here, bored and comfortable, was a form of self-punishment tinged with pleasure, or the expectation of it; if she went away something bad might happen or, worse, something good, something she could not afford to miss.†   (source)
  • But whatever he accomplished, whatever joy he felt, it was always tinged with the memory of his beautiful little sister and the horror of her fate.†   (source)
  • Swaddled in tissue paper but not yet wrapped was a camera—what I had asked for with a tinge of whining in my voice, so sure they would not get it for me.†   (source)
  • Even from afar, Cinder could make out the pale luminescence of her skin, the ruby tinge of her lips.†   (source)
  • Past the resentful older houses tinged green with envy, cowering in their private driveways among their private rubber trees.†   (source)
  • Your English has a tinge of Oxford about it and your nails have the soft sheen of the recently manicured.†   (source)
  • I felt proud when Schindler talked with me, although my pride was tinged with anxiety.†   (source)
  • Red-tinged froth bubbling at his nostrils.†   (source)
  • The sun is sinking farther beyond the clouds, and the bay is a hard gray, just barely tinged with green.†   (source)
  • And listening to her now, I can almost picture us in her greenhouse, where even in winter, the air is always warm and humid and smells musty and earthy like soil with the slightest tinge of manure.†   (source)
  • The edge of his sword was tinged with red.†   (source)
  • A distressed look, tinged with fear, despair, disappointment.†   (source)
  • What I mean is, right from that first time, there was something in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed to say: "Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now.†   (source)
  • Her jaws were open and from between them erupted a great tongue of flame, bright yellow and tinged with blue.†   (source)
  • It was made of different wood than the other doors down here, wood with a beautiful grain like a tiger's coat that shimmered with a tinge of red under the naked electric bulbs that lit the cellars.†   (source)
  • Black Dog emerged from the cave, shirt off, muscles wet and rippling on mahogany-tinged skin.†   (source)
  • He paused frequently, listening to the sound of crystalline rain tinging off his window and watching the slow but steady accumulation of frozen ice thickening on everything outside.†   (source)
  • The walkway here is sheltered by the forward cargo modules so the wind is little more than a salt-tinged breeze.†   (source)
  • —came tinged with annoyance.†   (source)
  • I can see brown-tinged water rushing through one pipe, disappearing into the machine, and emerging clear.†   (source)
  • "Get him out of here," she said, her voice flat and tinged with a quiet burn.†   (source)
  • Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroaching on the road was tinged a violent red.†   (source)
  • If our dealings were tinged with passion ...well, passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.†   (source)
  • "Tell me why you hunt animals instead of people," I suggested, my voice still tinged with desperation.†   (source)
  • From time to time, she looks out the window, at the lilac sky of early evening, vividly tinged with two parallel stripes of pink.†   (source)
  • "No thanks, Ojisan," Ben said with a tinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel took to drawing on the walls and ceiling of their apartment, and did amazingly dead-on caricatures of teachers and classmates and scribbled musical references and racial epithets, turning their apartment into a mad tapestry of race-tinged, twenty-year-old angst.†   (source)
  • The wound was packed with blood-tinged gauze, and as he began to remove it, Colton whimpered a bit in fear.†   (source)
  • By the time we got our coats on, and got out the two doors, a crawler had made a ragged path up to the house, dragging a white trench across the moss-tinged snow, its half-spinning halt missing my flier by centimeters.†   (source)
  • Foul, yellow-tinged smoke coiled and dripped from the gray man's gloved hands, spattering onto the wooden floor like dirty liquid.†   (source)
  • , having very black and somewhat coarse hair, very thick, with no tendency to baldness; his mustache was a much lighter color and I think of a red tinge, though I have seen him have it colored black at times, which gave him quite a different appearance.†   (source)
  • Now it was five o'clock, and although he didn't have a watch and couldn't tell time too well yet anyway, he was aware of passing time by the lengthening of the shadows, and by the golden cast that now tinged the afternoon light.†   (source)
  • In that moment they were tinged with wonder, and he looked, despite his stubble, boylike.†   (source)
  • 'Yes!' he cried out suddenly, his hands out, his voice tinged with something other than anger.†   (source)
  • There was a tinge of desperation in his voice.†   (source)
  • It's almost dawn, the light outside is just beginning to tinge grey, and the rain of the last several days is still battering against the window.†   (source)
  • I felt a tinge of pain in my hamstring and automatically bent my knee.†   (source)
  • They are reaching to grip their gun hands with the opposite hands, still hollering, though now their voices are tinged with a certain amount of fear.†   (source)
  • He was torn between the demands of his body, which was becoming that of a man, and the sweetness of a feeling that was still tinged with the innocent games of childhood.†   (source)
  • What distinguished them, she pointed out, was that rubinette had a small number of microscopic pink dots at the tips of the petals, giving the flower a faint pinkish tinge.†   (source)
  • I sniffed the air; there was a tinge of autumn in it.†   (source)
  • Respect and love had sent the gift — with only a slight tinge of fear.†   (source)
  • There was a tinge of superiority in the way he said it.†   (source)
  • Vivian spreads a hand across her chest, her pink-tinged fingernails as delicate seeming as a baby's.†   (source)
  • Every five years, all the houses in Coalwood were painted a company white, which the blowing coal soon tinged gray.†   (source)
  • His scent filled the room, that sweetish cologne, and beneath it was a smell she remembered, something medicinal and tinged with adrenaline.†   (source)
  • "Hey, I'm sorry," I said, worried about the tinge of green coloring his face.†   (source)
  • His silvery hair had a wan tinge to it, a yellowish discolor, and he combed it back in a ducktail.†   (source)
  • His skin was fair and his hair a light brown, though in the sun it seemed to have a reddish tinge that was surely Annie's.†   (source)
  • Wrote a poem, an epic, tinged with dark humor, decided to give it to my mom because this was all her fault.†   (source)
  • His hair is tinged with gray.†   (source)
  • The hot-dog-like meat was monkey spleen, and the ice around it was tinged with red and had begun to melt and drip.†   (source)
  • She looks like central casting's idea of a free-spirited Middle Eastern princess, and she speaks English with a tinge of a foreign accent reflecting her childhood in Iraq.†   (source)
  • Stevie Rae was crying, and her tears were tinged red.†   (source)
  • Eyes tinged with jaundice.†   (source)
  • Our little laundry lesson this evening had been precipitated by his throwing a new red shirt into the hot water cycle, which left everything he'd been wearing lately with a rosy tinge.†   (source)
  • With their mossy hair and green skin tinged with orange for the coming autumn, they were no more frightening than a pumpkin vine.†   (source)
  • "See here, honey," he said with a tinge of irritation in his tones.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later, another angry buzz runs down the line, this one tinged with surprise.†   (source)
  • Both of her stories are about heartache and mourning, but they're tinged with this ...simplicity and romance.†   (source)
  • And because she was afraid her mother would catch her at it, every peek into the mirror had a tinge of secret vice.†   (source)
  • I don't think I merely imagined that the farewell speeches were tinged with affection.†   (source)
  • Her face was tinged with blue, and there were brownish spots on her cheeks.†   (source)
  • His great dismay at the announcement of Major Major's appointment as squadron commander was tinged with an embittered resentment he made no effort to conceal.†   (source)
  • Her skin was as smooth and dark as a coffee bean, her voice rich and tinged with an accent.†   (source)
  • But that night, as my mind replayed a thousand memories, it seemed that what few sparks of joy we had experienced were constantly tinged with pain.†   (source)
  • I feel a tinge of guilt for saying such a nasty thing about her home.†   (source)
  • Their visits were particularly refreshing because they weren't tinged with the guilty knowledge of what I was putting Larry and my family through.†   (source)
  • His voice had a nervous tinge to it, and Ian knew immediately that something was wrong.†   (source)
  • Bitterness tinges his voice, but something else is also there.†   (source)
  • Just a hint of embarrassment gave them away, a tinge in the cheek for the fact that such a common item should now be so highly prized.†   (source)
  • Now, with his head pointing upward, he found himself gazing at the ridge, as over the skyline came the silent, moving, red-tinged cumuli.†   (source)
  • She waved the tray a bit, to make sure the incredible vanilla-tinged aroma of fresh-baked cookies reached all of us.†   (source)
  • The smell hit John first—burned leather, accented by the cinnamon-tinged tobacco that only the professor smoked—but the room itself was a disaster.†   (source)
  • The house looks the same to him; the red maple, tinged from a late-August frost, its branches extending across the drive, is the same size as he remembered it.†   (source)
  • This time his voice was tinged with something Eve thought sounded like pity.†   (source)
  • The juice glistening in the bite mark had the same green, oily tinge he recognized from the river.†   (source)
  • All those scraggy-looking Santa Clauses were standing on corners ringing those bells, and the Salvation Army girls, the ones that don't wear any lipstick or anything, were tinging bells too.†   (source)
  • Their ancient voices, tinged with a centuries-old advocacy of faith and duty, sounded like calls to action.†   (source)
  • Dawn breaks, the sun's rays tracing the sky above Blackcliff's ebony belltower like bloodied fingers, tingeing everyone in the courtyard a lurid red.†   (source)
  • Now it reached to the very top of the hall, its slender branches stretching out more than ten meters in each direction, creating a canopy of leaves that partially obscured the performers with a veil of green-tinged shadows.†   (source)
  • "And when did you grow into a man?" asked Attolia, lifting her eyebrow, her voice tinged with sarcasm.†   (source)
  • His eyes were unnatural bright, his breathing short and fast and difficult, and what he coughed up was tinged with bright red blood.†   (source)
  • The paint was not as white and glossy as before; it had a gray tinge.†   (source)
  • But the pallor of his skin was gone; his cheeks had a slight pinkish tinge; his fingernails were no longer gray.†   (source)
  • The air was tinged with a sense of panic that built with every hour.†   (source)
  • "I did not say that," answered Bourne; his own French dialect was one he employed frequently, with the guttural tinge of Gascony.†   (source)
  • He felt a tinge of remorse as he reached down and picked up the paper bag that contained his dinner.†   (source)
  • Since Mike ran everything, was not corrupted by any tinge of honesty.†   (source)
  • She is barefoot and her skin, encrusted with sand, is tinged a faint blue.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily he was a regular kid, minding his own business with no tinge of the crusader or fanatic about him.†   (source)
  • As the sun disappeared behind the Gianicolo its light filtered through the palms and pines that stood upon the crest, and part of Rome, though gold and ochre, was tinged with a green color that suggested a city of the East.†   (source)
  • The links were heavy, crudely made, the shining metal had an odd tinge, it was greenish-blue.†   (source)
  • The last time he looked at the clock it was quarter to four, and the faintest tinge of pink was brushing the window.†   (source)
  • Then the slightly huffy note dropped, a tinge almost of awe coloured her thoughts.†   (source)
  • But the knots wouldn't give way to his blue-tinged fingers.†   (source)
  • She looked scared, her chest heaving, her face reddening, with tinges of gray skirting the edges.†   (source)
  • I had always thought their English was tinged with a Yiddish accent.†   (source)
  • That night, lying in the short bunk bed above snoring Albert, I wondered if anything would have turned out differently had a careless nurse switched the two of us in a hospital nursery, whether his family would be significantly changed, whether mine would have been, whether any of us Koreans, raised as we were, would sense the barest tinge of a loss or estrangement.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: (A pause; then with the greatest disbelief possible, tinged with hysteria) What did you just say to me?†   (source)
  • Even now, there is a little tinge of hurt or sadness when they talk so bad about her.†   (source)
  • The corners of his lips were still tinged with blood.†   (source)
  • The two men stopped in the road and looked out at the valley, green tinged from the early rains.†   (source)
  • A mist sprang up about him as he rode, a mist tinged with blood.†   (source)
  • His voice became tinged with foreboding.†   (source)
  • The images ate at his generous heart and at times tinged his mock-belligerent cheerfulness with alum.†   (source)
  • In fact, I tried to write many things, but my mind was so boggled by the circumstances of my students and my own life was so uncertain and without direction that I found myself writing mawkish doggerel and prose of an extraordinary purplish tinge.†   (source)
  • There was even a tinge of fashionable corruption in his diction.†   (source)
  • There was a ruddy smear on the brick, and a puddle of rainwater was tinged pink.†   (source)
  • Underneath was a raw, bloody, green-tinged steak slightly larger than the average car tyre.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps it was that, in the old man's eyes, the div found not even a tinge of fear.†   (source)
  • Her voice was tinged with sadness, and I realized my mates and I were growing apart.†   (source)
  • Langdon nodded, feeling a tinge of excitement, talking faster now.†   (source)
  • "You could have called us and let us know that," Ben says, his voice tinged with frustration.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, the living room was tinged with kaleidoscopic light.†   (source)
  • The apathy was even tinged by a certain relief.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, instead of being red from crying, were tinged green, the color of chlorophyll.†   (source)
  • The sparkles were tinged with red, with the blood that covered his skin.†   (source)
  • The sky was now tinged with the faintest trace of pink.†   (source)
  • Shards of glass with red-tinged smudges on their razor-thin tips.†   (source)
  • His reply, when it came, was tinged with just the right note of defeat.†   (source)
  • Inside, warm air tinged with the smell of engine oil enveloped her.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, her teeth were tinged with crimson.†   (source)
  • Fache's tone came with a tinge of impatience now.†   (source)
  • His eyes bored into hers, waiting, a tinge desperate.†   (source)
  • His skin looked gray, tinged with a blue-whiteness that made something in me, constrict.†   (source)
  • But though I'm ashamed to admit it, my feelings of fondness were tinged with pity.†   (source)
  • I remember the evening as a wonderful blur of warm emotion, tinged in bitter.†   (source)
  • Ammu recognized vaguely that her thoughts were shot with a delicate, purple tinge of envy.†   (source)
  • Thomas could hear a tinge of annoyance in his voice.†   (source)
  • I hadn't seen Sam crying, but the corners of her eyes were tinged with pink.†   (source)
  • Even the fronds of the palm trees looked like they were tinged with blood.†   (source)
  • Catelyn smiled, but the smile was tinged with sadness.†   (source)
  • We are dead, she thought, and it was not even tinged with emotion.†   (source)
  • I feel a weird tinge of sympathy and quickly push it away.†   (source)
  • Da5id's paralyzed face has taken on a bluish tinge as it reflects light coming out of the scroll.†   (source)
  • Still crouching by the pool, he stared into the green-tinged water.†   (source)
  • Kampe raised her green-tinged swords, and I knew Annabeth and I were out of options.†   (source)
  • Rather they gave it a soft, nasal, Jersey-tinged inflection.†   (source)
  • A tinge of stubbornness in the jaw, but you wouldn't see it unless you knew.†   (source)
  • My vision was tinged with red, and hard as I tried, I couldn't flush out the image of blood.†   (source)
  • He looked at me with a tinge of sympathy then.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that is not true," returned the quick reply, tinged now with a hint of sarcasm.†   (source)
  • The pale light of glowglobes gave the scene a tinge of unreality.†   (source)
  • I looked over at the deputies, who exhibited a tinge of disappointment.†   (source)
  • And there in the corner, at a table for two, her hair tinged with gray, the willowy woman waited.†   (source)
  • My teeth are chattering in my head, the tips of my fingers are white with a tinge of blue.†   (source)
  • The attendees, all under heavy stress, felt a bit of release tinged with the smell of blood.†   (source)
  • All the flames were tinged with blue, making the scene dreamlike and surreal.†   (source)
  • Green is best, with a yellow tinge to it, like absinthe.†   (source)
  • The cell was freezing, and green-tinged water was dripping down the wall inches from her face.†   (source)
  • Root's face had lost its purple tinge and he almost seemed embarrassed.†   (source)
  • Wang's words were tinged with a hint of self-mockery.†   (source)
  • There was a tinge of hysteria in his voice.†   (source)
  • The Chancellor looked at me with a tinge of reproach.†   (source)
  • Wang said, his voice now tinged with anger.†   (source)
  • I thought I detected a tinge of irritation in her voice.†   (source)
  • "Finally" Elodin said with a tinge of exasperation.†   (source)
  • She shifted in her chair, felt a tinge of pain, and recognized it as the beginnings of arthritis.†   (source)
  • Thibault said nothing, and when Nana spoke again, her voice was tinged with melancholy.†   (source)
  • It was a deep voice, tinged with an Eastern European accent.†   (source)
  • These flashes of memory were always tinged with the fear of the hunted.†   (source)
  • Beyond the canyon's cliffs, red-tinged sand flowed into an endless sea of desert.†   (source)
  • With a tinge of fatigue, Arya said,Guard yourself better if you can.†   (source)
  • I can't help but watch through eyes tinged green.†   (source)
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