He was soon up to his ears in medical studies, being employed, morning, noon, and night, in rolling pills, filtering tinctures, or pounding the pestle and mortar, in one corner of the laboratory; while the doctor would take his seat in another corner, when he had nothing else to do, or expected visitors, and, arrayed in his morning-gown and velvet cap, would pore over the contents of some folio volume.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
A subtle sadness tinctures their life, and they are possessed by an impulse to weep.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
He is touched by the ecstasy which tinctures all emotional or beautiful prose literature.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell