Example Sentences

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Everything took on a wistfulness in the evening air, which the sunset was tincturing like claret poured into water.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

He had filled one glass and was tincturing it with syrup when he caught again that confiding smile of Josie's, full upon him as the beams of a noon-day sun.

From The Fortune Hunter by Vance, Louis Joseph