De Bailleul noted the delicacy of his hand and the tastefulness of his violet-tinted coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

From that she removed a violet-tinted business card which she presented to Hermux with a flourish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Time Stops For No Mouse by Michael Hoeye] Reference

The workers, as well as the visitors, had to wear violet-tinted glasses to protect their eyes from the glare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference

Bono, wearing a black safari jacket, a white T-shirt and violet-tinted wrap-around sunglasses, posed for photographers with.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It will grow in any soil, and will produce an abundance of its violet-tinted white flowers, which, when handled, emit a faint odour of garlic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

The proportion of cobalt to frit had an effect on the color of the coloring material: more potash and sand (or soda and sand) would result in a more violet-tinted color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Then all around and beyond the coloured fringe there is the light of the pearly inner corona; beyond that are pearly and violet-tinged rays curling away in both directions from the poles, whilst outside all are the long, pearly, and violet-tinted streamers which assume the shape of a large many-pointed star; and even these do not seem at rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

"Yes," he said, watching her dilated eyes like two violet-tinted jewels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tracer of Lost Persons] Reference

Deering flung the faintly scented violet-tinted toilet-case into the bag resentfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madness of May] Reference

The words are written with a broad-pointed, violet-tinted pencil of a not unusual pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Last Bow]

We're shut out from the conversation, and from the warm yellows of a social club as we stand in a cold, violet-tinted avenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emdashes] Reference

This is what she had found behind her school-girl's fancy for a handsome face, for violet-tinted eyes, and soft brown curling hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Floyd. A Novel] Reference

On that very afternoon came a violet-tinted little letter which had an exceedingly heady fragrance and bore instead of a seal a golden lyre transfixed by a torch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference

Page view page image: lightness were waving round her, and her pearly complexion and violet-tinted dress looked lovely among those aerial arabesques of delicate green.    From Wordnik.com.  [A romance of the republic] Reference

How dark and terrible are the memories of him associated with the charming isle, which, violet-tinted, on beautiful sunny days emerges from an azure sea against an azure sky!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the Caesars] Reference

The colouring is rich and varied; the orange horizon, the distant blue hill, and the pale, clear evening light, with violet-tinted clouds, give a wonderful depth behind the dark tree-trunks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giorgione]

She wore a flowing violet-tinted stola, that tumbled in soft, silky flounces down to her ankles, and from beneath it peered the tint of her shapely feet bound to thin sandals by bright red ribbons.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

The western horizon was blushing rosy red at the coming of the sun, whose descending chariot was hidden by the thick Indian-summer haze that covered lowland and mountain as it were with a violet-tinted veil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)] Reference

He gazed with rapture on the dazzling brilliancy of her complexion, the delicate regularity of her features, and the large violet-tinted eyes, fringed with the longest and the darkest lashes that he had ever beheld.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henrietta Temple A Love Story] Reference

The moving shadows of maple leaves patterned the white walls of her bedroom; wind-blown gusts of wistaria fragrance, from the long, grapelike, violet-tinted bunches swaying outside the window, puffed out her curtains every morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danger Mark] Reference

Haimburg speaks of it as resembling amber; Corneille de la Pierre believes it to be violet-tinted, and St. Jerome gives us to understand that it is not identifiable; in fact, that it is but another name for the jacinth, the image of prudence, with its water of blue like the sky and changing tints.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral] Reference

The forms of the clouds became dimly perceptible along the horizon to the eastward; then the cloud-bank itself broke up, revealing little patches here and there of soft violet-tinted sky, which rapidly paled, first to a pure and delicate ultramarine, and then to a soft primrose hue before the approaching dawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Missing Merchantman] Reference

When he sprayed the entrance hall with an air freshener and replaced Glenton’s run-of-the-mill lavatory paper with soft, violet-tinted toilet tissue, it could have served as a hint that a special visitor was expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Princess and the Photographer] Reference

Albertine’s cheeks as she spoke, and asked myself what might be the perfume, the taste of them: this time they were not cool, but glowed with a uniform pink, violet-tinted, creamy, like certain roses whose petals have a waxy gloss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within a Budding Grove] Reference

In the violet-tinted heavens above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference

In violet-tinted haze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child Songs of Cheer] Reference

The name of Parma, one of the towns that I most longed to visit, after reading the Chartreuse, seeming to me compact and glossy, violet-tinted, soft, if anyone were to speak of such or such a house in Parma, in which I should be lodged, he would give me the pleasure of thinking that I was to inhabit a dwelling that was compact and glossy, violet-tinted, soft, and that bore no relation to the houses in any other town in Italy, since I could imagine it only by the aid of that heavy syllable of the name of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference