Citations:tintless
English citations of tintless
Adjective: "having no tint; colourless"
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- 1849 — Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Canada and the Canadians, Henry Colburn (1849), Chapter IX:
- One of the most curious things on the shallow parts of Huron is to sail or row over the submarine or sublacune mountains, and to feel giddy from fancy, for it is like being in a balloon, so pure and tintless is the water.
- 1857 — Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, Chapter X:
- How, with the tintless pallor of her skin and the classic straightness of her lineaments, she managed to look sensual, I don't know.
- 1859 — "Did I?", Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 16, February 1859:
- For in an urn of tintless alabaster, that had lain centuries in the breathless dust and gloom of an Egyptian tomb, […]
- 1861 — "A Story of To-Day", Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December 1861:
- The sunlight was pure that morning, powerful, tintless, the true wine of life for body or spirit.
- 1872 — Hesba Stretton, The Doctor's Dilemma, D. Appleton and Company (1872), Chapter 10:
- A little tinge of color crept over Julia's tintless face as she told Pellet he might go.
- 1880 — Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record, Truber & Co (1880), page 195:
- It can be tinted to the taste of the purchaser; but, as a rule, a tintless crystal is preferred.
- 1885 — Ada Langworthy Collier, Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman, D. Lothrop and Company (1885), page 70:
- Thick set with buds as tintless as the snows
- 1911 — Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), The Dop Doctor, Henry Frowde (1911), page 579:
- It appeared to contain pure sparkling water, but the liquor it held was knock-out whisky, a tintless drink of exceeding potency, above proof.