shading

A bridge spanned it midway and from there to its lower end, where an amber-hued belt of sand-hills shut it in from the dark blue gulf beyond, the water was a glory of many shifting hues--the most spiritual shadings of crocus and rose and ethereal green, with other elusive tintings for which no name has ever been found.

“And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner,” observed Holmes, shading his eyes.

By this time all the Queen’s scholars had gravitated into their own places in the ranks and the various classes had assumed distinct and settled shadings of individuality.

The west was a glory of soft mingled hues, and the pond reflected them all in still softer shadings.