Here the red wheat tinges the view, there the whiter barley; but the prevailing hue is a light gold.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
But such tinges of harvest gold were not many in half a dozen miles of dreary hills.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
They have a dull pale ground, not white, and yet it is difficult to say what colour it is that tinges it; in these four eggs it is a yellowish stone-colour, but in others it is greenish, and in some grey; near the middle, towards the large end, there is a broad and conspicuous, but broken and irregular zone of feeble, more or less confluent spots and small blotches of pale yellowish brown and very pale washed-out purple.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume