The colours of the curtains and their fringe - the
tints of crimson and gold - appear everywhere in profusion, and determine the character of the room.
Beyond that the
tints darkened into fine gradations of ultramarine, and faded into vague obscurity.
Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman's shape to the bust, portrayed in
tints as dusk and soft as I could combine.
She said that everything had colour in her thought; the months of the year ran through all the
tints of the spectrum, the days of the week were arrayed as Solomon in his glory, morning was golden, noon orange, evening crystal blue, and night violet.
which, barred with various
tints, seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.
Van Baerle bade farewell to the great black tulip, certain of awaking in another world full of light and glorious
tints.
He had a nice little bow in his hand, but it was quite spoiled by the rain, and the
tints of his many-colored arrows ran one into the other.
They appear to vary their
tints according to the nature of the ground over which they pass: when in deep water, their general shade was brownish purple, but when placed on the land, or in shallow water, this dark
tint changed into one of a yellowish green.
One November afternoon, in the calm at the end of a rain-storm of several days' duration, when the sky was still completely overcast and the air was full of mist, I observed that the pond was remarkably smooth, so that it was difficult to distinguish its surface; though it no longer reflected the bright
tints of October, but the sombre November colors of the surrounding hills.
So were the
tinted spectacles and the curious voice, which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers.
As, however, we never know the exact character of the common ancestor of a group, we could not distinguish these two cases: if, for instance, we did not know that the rock-pigeon was not feather-footed or turn-crowned, we could not have told, whether these characters in our domestic breeds were reversions or only analogous variations; but we might have inferred that the blueness was a case of reversion, from the number of the markings, which are correlated with the blue
tint, and which it does not appear probable would all appear together from simple variation.
The stone is brown, with a pinkish
tint, and does not seem to stain easily.