Example Sentences

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She stooped to pick up Dinah’s slate, and, instead of finishing the work upon it, she wrote out rapidly a thought that had tinged her cheeks while Ralph Towne had been with her.

From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.

Howard wondered if it were there because the odd sadness of a forsaken town had tinged her spirit with its own weird melancholy; or if she had been disturbed by word of Jim Courtot.

From The Desert Valley by Gregory, Jackson

To hark back: at 4.30 a.m., ere dawn had tinged the east, the Sirdar bade Colonel Broadwood, commanding the Egyptian cavalry, send out two squadrons to ascertain what the enemy was about.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet

The flush which had tinged her cheek on hearing of the invitation deepened, and a softer light gleamed for a moment in her fine eyes.

From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon

Rotha's color, that had tinged her cheeks, mounted to her eyes and descended to her neck.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir