Save for a strong tincture of cigar smoke, everything seemed correct.

Books are the strong tincture of experience.

I had always a strong tincture of superstition, which has exercised considerable influence on my strange career.

The billet is no bad sketch of the writer's character, which seems to have a strong tincture of oddity and extravagance.

It took two varlets and a strong tincture to get her huddled, weeping figure out of the middle of the hall floor.

'Tis a vivid and strong tincture which, when the soul has once thoroughly imbibed it, will not out but with the piece.