All 6 Uses of
tinged
in
The Mill on the Floss
- On this mighty tide the black ships—laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of oil-bearing seed, or with the dark glitter of coal—are borne along to the town of St. Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves between the low wooded hill and the river-brink, tingeing the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of this February sun.†
Chpt 1.1
- Mr. Stelling's doctrine was of no particular school; if anything, it had a tinge of evangelicalism, for that was "the telling thing" just then in the diocese to which King's Lorton belonged.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Mrs. Pullet had always thought it strange if Tom's excellent complexion, so entirely that of the Dodsons, did not argue a certainty that he would turn out well; his juvenile errors of running down the peacock, and general disrespect to his aunts, only indicating a tinge of Tulliver blood which he had doubtless outgrown.†
Chpt 5.2
- It was only a wonder that there was no tinge of vulgarity about her, considering what the rest of poor Lucy's relations were—an allusion which always made the Miss Guests shudder a little.†
Chpt 6.6
- "Now you are returning to your old thought in a new form, Maggie,—the thought I used to combat," said Philip, with a slight tinge of bitterness.†
Chpt 6.7
- Not that anger, on account of spurned beauty can dwell in the celestial breasts of charitable ladies, but rather that the errors of persons who have once been much admired necessarily take a deeper tinge from the mere force of contrast; and also, that to-day Maggie's conspicuous position, for the first time, made evident certain characteristics which were subsequently felt to have an explanatory bearing.†
Chpt 6.9
Definition:
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(tinged) with a slight amount
(If an amount of what is not clear from context, it is typically of color.)