flesh-tint

However, to counterbalance her personal defects, the marquise gave her daughter a distinguished air, subjected her to hygienic treatment which provisionally kept her nose at a reasonable flesh-tint, taught her the art of dressing well, endowed her with charming manners, showed her the trick of melancholy glances which interest a man and make him believe that he has found

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

Pure white are they, or of such a delicate flesh-tint, the fairy washerwoman might well be proud of her work.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Lay on the first flesh-tint evenly with a large brush, leaving the whites of the eyes untouched.

Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Now lay over the complexion a wash of flesh-tint No. 1, and wipe it off again directly; repeat the wash as often as necessary until a good colour is obtained.

Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various

A tall young man, slight and clean-limbed, with a well-shaped head so closely shaven as to suggest a Newgate barber; a long fair moustache, a long nose, a rather large mouth, luminous azure eyes, and a complexion the sun has vainly tried to brown, reducing it merely to a deeper flesh-tint.

Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

He had not supposed that there was a particle of color in the pitiful face, but as the boy answered, a delicate flesh-tint seemed to leave it, turning him deathly white.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

The flesh-tint, following, perhaps, an Egyptian precedent, is of a deep reddish-brown.

The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

"And since one must provide a fine hair-net for a groundwork, to imitate the flesh-tint of the scalp, and since each hair of the parting must be treated separately, and since the natural wave of the hair must be reproduced, and since you will also need a block for it to stand on at nights to guard its shape --"

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

It has no leaves but is supplied with over-lapping scale-like bracts of a warm flesh-tint.

The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter George Wharton James 1890

This face was originally painted flesh-tint, and the robes of the image pale blue; but now the whole is uniformly grey with age and dust, and its colourlessness harmonises so well with the senility of the figure that one is almost ready to believe one's self gazing at a living mendicant pilgrim.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877