"Tinto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... un pastore, Ch'a cavallo pel bosco ne veniva Cercando una iuvenca, che gli fuore Duo di di mandra e senza guardia giva. Seco lo trasse ove perdea il vigore Medor col sangue che del petto usciva; E gia n'avea di tanto il terren tinto, Ch'era ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt
... stately sailed from Cadiz on September 25, 1493, was a very different sight from the three shabby little caravels that slipped down the Tinto a year and a half before. The Admiral now commanded fourteen caravels and three great carracks or store-ships, on board of which were horses, mules, cattle, carefully packed shoots of grape-vines and sugar-cane, seeds of all kinds, and provisions ready for ...
— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey
... and pensioned off the old humpbacked postilion who drove them, retaining his services, however, as an assistant to a still more aged hostler. To console herself for restrictions by which her pride was secretly wounded, she agreed with the celebrated Dick Tinto to re-paint her father's sign, which had become rather undecipherable; and Dick accordingly gilded the Bishop's crook, and augmented the horrors of the Devil's aspect, until it became a terror to all the younger fry of the school-house, and a sort of visible illustration of the terrors ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott |
