Brown pigment made from boiling the soot of wood.
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Examples for "bistre "
Examples for "bistre "
1 Honeysuckles.-Insideof the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre .
2 Bay.-Lakeand flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black.
3 Bears.-Brownochre, red ochre, and black, mixed; shaded with bistre and ivory black.
4 Reddish-brown, marone, bistre with a golden light in it, suited her to perfection.
5 Her eyes were hideous to him in their great rings of paint and bistre .
1 She looked white and spent; there were bister circles round her eyes.
2 Well, then, observe me; note the bister about my eyes, the swollen lips, the shaking hand.
3 Bister Burds, you bust go to Londod by the next traid.
4 I bay be wrodging Bister Ford, but do dot thig so.'
5 She 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.
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