Brown pigment made from boiling the soot of wood.
1She looked white and spent; there were bister circles round her eyes.
2Well, then, observe me; note the bister about my eyes, the swollen lips, the shaking hand.
3Bister Burds, you bust go to Londod by the next traid.
4I bay be wrodging Bister Ford, but do dot thig so.'
5She sneezed, and said, "Oh, Berribad, is thad Bister Thordhiud?" She gestured for the phone.
6'Bister Glossop, you will be in charge of the school.
7'Cub id, Bister Burds,' said my employer, swallowing a lozenge.
8'Bister Burds, what is the expladation of this extraordinary affair?'
9'White will accompany you, Bister Burds,' he said doggedly.
10'Bister Burds, I understood you to-ah-saythat the scou'drels took their departure without the boy Ford.'
11"I saw him in a dream." Between them the boy's white face was slack, shut eyes sunk in bistered hollows of pain.