A water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot.
1Honeysuckles.-Insideof the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre.
2Bay.-Lakeand flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black.
3Bears.-Brownochre, red ochre, and black, mixed; shaded with bistre and ivory black.
4Reddish-brown, marone, bistre with a golden light in it, suited her to perfection.
5Her eyes were hideous to him in their great rings of paint and bistre.
6Anemones.- Athinwash of gamboge shaded with bistre; or carmine and sap-green blended together.
7Their smooth bistre skins gleamed beneath veils shot with silver.
8Horses, black.-Blacklightly laid on, shaded with Keating's black and bistre, heightened with masticot.
9All kinds of bistre attract moisture from the atmosphere.
10Gray Furs-black and white mixed and shaded with bistre.
11Horses, grey.-Blackand white mixed, shaded with black, white, and bistre; heightened with pure water.
12Honey-white face, thin dusk and bistre of eyelids and hollow temples and the roots of the hair.
13Washed in bistre, or India ink.
14The ground-colour is grey, with a tinge of green, and it is thickly covered with small spots of bistre.
15Rosalind's beautiful bistre-brown eyes smiled.
16It is executed in pen, shaded with bistre, and belongs to what I have ventured to describe as office work.