You are a show of domesticity which lends color to our claim of wedded state.

There was no need for you to return, and your presence here on that night lends color to Mr. Silver's accusation.

"Then Rochester's disappearance after Jimmie's death lends color to the theory."

"I am sorry if anything I have said lends color to that belief," he answered.

"I have thought of that, and his sudden disappearance, as well as the peculiar letter I read to you, lends color to the idea."