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  • If I were rich, I should work, all the same, to keep me from soaring too often on the many-tinted wings of the angel, and wandering in the world of fancy.

    Honorine 2007

  • If I were rich, I should work, all the same, to keep me from soaring too often on the many-tinted wings of the angel, and wandering in the world of fancy.

    Honorine 2007

  • And before us from east to west stretched the many-tinted sea all dotted with little sailing boats.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • There in the wardrobe hung those wonderful robes — pink and blue and many-tinted.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • And before us from east to west stretched the many-tinted sea all dotted with little sailing boats.

    The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

  • What do you think of marrying to sober Poverty many-tinted Caprice? '

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Around him soared many-tinted walls, so high that fluoropanels must glow perpetually on the lower levels, a liana tangle of elevated ways looping between them, the pinnacles crowned with clouds and sunlight.

    The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972

  • Debby had come like a fresh wind into a sultry room; but no one welcomed the healthful visitant, no one saw a pleasant picture in the bright-faced girl with wind-tossed hair and rustic hat heaped with moss and many-tinted shells; they only saw that her gown was wet, her gloves forgotten, and her scarf trailing at her waist in a manner no well-bred lady could approve.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

  • Dusted and costumed outside of town, down the main street of Mancos the circus bravely paraded that morning, its red enamelled paint and gilt, its many-tinted tights and spangles, making a perfect riot of brilliant colors over the prevailing dull gray of valley and town.

    The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

  • The house looked out upon the lane, where the shadows were gathering fast, under the many-tinted elm trees overshadowing it.

    The Heiress of Wyvern Court Emilie Searchfield

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