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  • And there in the corner, at a table for two, her hair tinged with gray, the willowy woman waited.†   (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)
  • When he spoke, it was with a tinge of guile and tenderness.†   (source)
  • We both stared at her hands, which were pink tinged, even in the tropical warmth of our house.†   (source)
  • The voices were odd, tinged with echo; some of the words were completely foreign—others felt familiar.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt a familiar tinge of wonder as his eyes made a futile attempt to absorb the entire mass of the edifice.†   (source)
  • Even those who are not sick have eyes tinged with yellow.†   (source)
  • His voice seemed suddenly tinged with worry.†   (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)
  • But when he speaks, his voice has a sad tinge to it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • As I lean my head back, the world drifts away, tinged by the smell of Freon and Cadillac leather.†   (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)
  • Suspicion must tinge my voice.†   (source)
  • From the way Chaol said "used to" with a tinge of sadness, she assumed much had been lost.†   (source)
  • Scarlet-tinged spittle flew from the fat innkeep's mouth as she begged of Catelyn Stark, "Don't kill him here!"†   (source)
  • Cal meets my eyes, a silver blush tingeing his cheeks.†   (source)
  • The sky above the circumference of the jungle is tinged a uniform pink.†   (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)
  • She knew what he had been thinking and felt a tinge of amusement at how young he seemed.†   (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)
  • The sun is sinking farther beyond the clouds, and the bay is a hard gray, just barely tinged with green.†   (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)
  • I felt proud when Schindler talked with me, although my pride was tinged with anxiety.†   (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)
  • Red-tinged froth bubbling at his nostrils.†   (source)
  • —came tinged with annoyance.†   (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)
  • Her jaws were open and from between them erupted a great tongue of flame, bright yellow and tinged with blue.†   (source)
  • "Tell me why you hunt animals instead of people," I suggested, my voice still tinged with desperation.†   (source)
  • But though I'm ashamed to admit it, my feelings of fondness were tinged with pity.†   (source)
  • The edge of his sword was tinged with red.†   (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)
  • "No thanks, Ojisan," Ben said with a tinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • I can see brown-tinged water rushing through one pipe, disappearing into the machine, and emerging clear.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The wound was packed with blood-tinged gauze, and as he began to remove it, Colton whimpered a bit in fear.†   (source)
  • A distressed look, tinged with fear, despair, disappointment.†   (source)
  • Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroaching on the road was tinged a violent red.†   (source)
  • The walkway here is sheltered by the forward cargo modules so the wind is little more than a salt-tinged breeze.†   (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)
  • "Get him out of here," she said, her voice flat and tinged with a quiet burn.†   (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)
  • My teeth are chattering in my head, the tips of my fingers are white with a tinge of blue.†   (source)
  • Foul, yellow-tinged smoke coiled and dripped from the gray man's gloved hands, spattering onto the wooden floor like dirty liquid.†   (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)
  • In that moment they were tinged with wonder, and he looked, despite his stubble, boylike.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • '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)
  • 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)
  • "Hey, I'm sorry," I said, worried about the tinge of green coloring his face.†   (source)
  • Vivian spreads a hand across her chest, her pink-tinged fingernails as delicate seeming as a baby's.†   (source)
  • Respect and love had sent the gift — with only a slight tinge of fear.†   (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)
  • I sniffed the air; there was a tinge of autumn in it.†   (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)
  • Every five years, all the houses in Coalwood were painted a company white, which the blowing coal soon tinged gray.†   (source)
  • His silvery hair had a wan tinge to it, a yellowish discolor, and he combed it back in a ducktail.†   (source)
  • His hair is tinged with gray.†   (source)
  • He had brown hair with a reddish tinge and his face was lean, his expression attentive, assessing.†   (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)
  • There was a tinge of superiority in the way he said it.†   (source)
  • Wrote a poem, an epic, tinged with dark humor, decided to give it to my mom because this was all her fault.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • His voice had a nervous tinge to it, and Ian knew immediately that something was wrong.†   (source)
  • Eyes tinged with jaundice.†   (source)
  • The air is cold, but not bitter, and tinged with chimney smoke.†   (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)
  • I feel a tinge of guilt for saying such a nasty thing about her home.†   (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)
  • Her face was tinged with blue, and there were brownish spots on her cheeks.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "See here, honey," he said with a tinge of irritation in his tones.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was a deep voice, tinged with an Eastern European accent.†   (source)
  • I don't think I merely imagined that the farewell speeches were tinged with affection.†   (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)
  • Their ancient voices, tinged with a centuries-old advocacy of faith and duty, sounded like calls to action.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later, another angry buzz runs down the line, this one tinged with surprise.†   (source)
  • The juice glistening in the bite mark had the same green, oily tinge he recognized from the river.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She waved the tray a bit, to make sure the incredible vanilla-tinged aroma of fresh-baked cookies reached all of us.†   (source)
  • Bitterness tinges his voice, but something else is also there.†   (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)
  • I had always thought their English was tinged with a Yiddish accent.†   (source)
  • "I did not say that," answered Bourne; his own French dialect was one he employed frequently, with the guttural tinge of Gascony.†   (source)
  • The air was tinged with a sense of panic that built with every hour.†   (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 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)
  • "And when did you grow into a man?" asked Attolia, lifting her eyebrow, her voice tinged with sarcasm.†   (source)
  • She looked scared, her chest heaving, her face reddening, with tinges of gray skirting the edges.†   (source)
  • The links were heavy, crudely made, the shining metal had an odd tinge, it was greenish-blue.†   (source)
  • This time his voice was tinged with something Eve thought sounded like pity.†   (source)
  • Since Mike ran everything, was not corrupted by any tinge of honesty.†   (source)
  • But the knots wouldn't give way to his blue-tinged fingers.†   (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)
  • He felt a tinge of remorse as he reached down and picked up the paper bag that contained his dinner.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily he was a regular kid, minding his own business with no tinge of the crusader or fanatic about him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Then the slightly huffy note dropped, a tinge almost of awe coloured her thoughts.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: (A pause; then with the greatest disbelief possible, tinged with hysteria) What did you just say to me?†   (source)
  • She is barefoot and her skin, encrusted with sand, is tinged a faint blue.†   (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)
  • His voice became tinged with foreboding.†   (source)
  • I had never seen trees such as this, mighty and majestic, of a deep, rich green, slightly tinged with gold.†   (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)
  • The apathy was even tinged by a certain relief.†   (source)
  • The sparkles were tinged with red, with the blood that covered his skin.†   (source)
  • Langdon nodded, feeling a tinge of excitement, talking faster now.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps it was that, in the old man's eyes, the div found not even a tinge of fear.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, the living room was tinged with kaleidoscopic light.†   (source)
  • Her voice was tinged with sadness, and I realized my mates and I were growing apart.†   (source)
  • That explained the tinge of bitterness, maybe even envy, in her words.†   (source)
  • Shards of glass with red-tinged smudges on their razor-thin tips.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, instead of being red from crying, were tinged green, the color of chlorophyll.†   (source)
  • The sky was now tinged with the faintest trace of pink.†   (source)
  • Underneath was a raw, bloody, green-tinged steak slightly larger than the average car tyre.†   (source)
  • "You could have called us and let us know that," Ben says, his voice tinged with frustration.†   (source)
  • Da5id's paralyzed face has taken on a bluish tinge as it reflects light coming out of the scroll.†   (source)
  • I looked over at the deputies, who exhibited a tinge of disappointment.†   (source)
  • Fache's tone came with a tinge of impatience now.†   (source)
  • Inside, warm air tinged with the smell of engine oil enveloped her.†   (source)
  • Ammu recognized vaguely that her thoughts were shot with a delicate, purple tinge of envy.†   (source)
  • Just before I shut the door, I heard Chubs's voice, tinged with his usual told-you-so.†   (source)
  • Even the fronds of the palm trees looked like they were tinged with blood.†   (source)
  • His eyes bored into hers, waiting, a tinge desperate.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that is not true," returned the quick reply, tinged now with a hint of sarcasm.†   (source)
  • Thomas could hear a tinge of annoyance in his voice.†   (source)
  • Rather they gave it a soft, nasal, Jersey-tinged inflection.†   (source)
  • I hadn't seen Sam crying, but the corners of her eyes were tinged with pink.†   (source)
  • They had elfish features, and their skin had a slightly greenish tinge.†   (source)
  • His skin looked gray, tinged with a blue-whiteness that made something in me, constrict.†   (source)
  • I remember the evening as a wonderful blur of warm emotion, tinged in bitter.†   (source)
  • Catelyn smiled, but the smile was tinged with sadness.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, her teeth were tinged with crimson.†   (source)
  • A tinge of stubbornness in the jaw, but you wouldn't see it unless you knew.†   (source)
  • I feel a weird tinge of sympathy and quickly push it away.†   (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)
  • He looked at me with a tinge of sympathy then.†   (source)
  • His reply, when it came, was tinged with just the right note of defeat.†   (source)
  • The pale light of glowglobes gave the scene a tinge of unreality.†   (source)
  • We are dead, she thought, and it was not even tinged with emotion.†   (source)
  • The attendees, all under heavy stress, felt a bit of release tinged with the smell of blood.†   (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)
  • All the flames were tinged with blue, making the scene dreamlike and surreal.†   (source)
  • He laughed, the tips of his ears tinged with a faint pink.†   (source)
  • The Chancellor looked at me with a tinge of reproach.†   (source)
  • Wang's words were tinged with a hint of self-mockery.†   (source)
  • There was a tinge of hysteria in his voice.†   (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)
  • Not blood but fire, tinged gold like the ichor of angels.†   (source)
  • His face had taken on a greenish tinge, and his eyes were deeply sunken, two black pits.†   (source)
  • I inhale his masculine scent: Brut, tainted slightly by a tinge of ice.†   (source)
  • Camille was crying, making no attempt to cover her tears, which were tinged with blood.†   (source)
  • Beyond the canyon's cliffs, red-tinged sand flowed into an endless sea of desert.†   (source)
  • Her skin was as smooth and dark as a coffee bean, her voice rich and tinged with an accent.†   (source)
  • Thibault said nothing, and when Nana spoke again, her voice was tinged with melancholy.†   (source)
  • His voice was deep, its accent tinged with a faint Irish lilt.†   (source)
  • Juliet's rose is thin and young, delicately tinged with pink.†   (source)
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