| 1. | Holmes, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of chestnut. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | His face, which carried the entire tale of his years, was of the brown tint of Dublin streets. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | I have been green, too, Miss Eyre,--ay, grass green not a more vernal tint freshens you now than once freshened me. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | It showed no variation but of tint green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes black, where the dry soil bore only heath. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | I, in my turn, scrutinised the paper but saw nothing on it save a few dingy stains of paint where I had tried the tint in my pencil. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | There will still be a portion which will take a tint from the colour of the edges. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 8. | The picture of human life in the market-place, though its general tint was the sad gray, brown, or black of the English emigrants, was yet enlivened by some diversity of hue. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | The thing was as impossible as to mould my irregular features to his correct and classic pattern, to give to my changeable green eyes the sea-blue tint and solemn lustre of his own. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | "I never saw such gorgeous tints in all my life. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 11. | To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt-. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | Her rich tints made the white face of her companion the more worn and haggard by the contrast. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 13. | Matthew was not used to deciding on the tints of ladies' tresses, but in this case there couldn't be much doubt. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 14. | I could not eat the tart and the plumage of the bird, the tints of the flowers, seemed strangely faded I put both plate and tart away. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 15. | The tints of the green carpet deepened and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 16. | the sombre light only serving to pale that which the street lamps afforded, without shedding any warmer or brighter tints upon the wet house-tops, and dreary streets. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 17. | 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. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 18. | Consider the subtleness of the sea how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |