Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinkening
Literary usage of Pinkening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"It came upon you like a little dawn, palely at first and then pinkening to a
pleasant consciousness that her small face was heart- shaped and clear as an ..."
2. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
"Then they looked up, up, up into the heart of the sky, and saw the mighty summit
pinkening like a wondrous phantom lotos-bud in the flush of the coming day: ..."
3. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"... beautiful as the pinkening blossoms themselves, trying to hide among them.
Though he looked for a moment only, Ming-Y could not avoid discerning the ..."
4. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"Then they looked up, up, up into the heart of the sky, and saw the mighty summit
pinkening like ..."
5. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn (1907)
"Then they looked up, up, up into the heart of the sky, and saw the mighty summit
pinkening like a wondrous phantom lotos-bud in the flush of the coming day: ..."
6. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn (1907)
"Then they looked up, up, up into the heart of the sky, and saw the mighty summit
pinkening like a wondrous phantom lotos-bud in the flush of the coming day: ..."
7. Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"... a sound caused him to turn his eyes toward a shady place where wild peach-trees
were in bloom ; and he beheld a young woman, beautiful as the pinkening ..."
8. Six Months at the World's Fair by Mark Stevens (1895)
"At last his prayers were answered and we beheld the life blood pinkening the
cheeks, expression and brightness coming into the eyes, completing the ..."
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