Each moment was to be, as far as he could make it, complete in itself, owing nothing of its happiness to explanations, borrowing neither bright nor dark tints from the future.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The contrast of the two tints causes an accidental colour resembling that of bronze, which catches the eye at the first glance, but disappears on looking closer.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
When the day was almost over, when the whole wood was fading to the neutral tints of dusk, he came.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell