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  • adjective colored with or as if with bister.

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  • adjective colored with or as if with bister

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Examples

  • But while she continued to vociferate, snatching breaths with the skill of the practised singer, she was also coolly taking in and appraising the young man who stood fixing her; and more than one meaning glance was sped at him from under her heavily blued and bistred lids.

    Succedaneum 2004

  • He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

  • I noticed again with distress the pallor of her face and the bistred rings that weeks of nursing had put under her dark eyes.

    Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

  • Her podgy, jewelled hands are clenching and unclenching in her heliotrope chiffon lap; there is a well-defined scowl between the black arched eyebrows, and the murky light of battle gleams in the eyes that no longer languish between their bistred eyelids as she scans the pure pale face under the sweep of her heavily blackened lashes.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • She turned a colourless, beautifully shaped face and heavy eyes with bistred lashes towards Marion.

    The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Mary Cholmondeley 1892

  • He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.

    Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • "She fell to wringing her hands, and the tears began to run from her bistred eyes.

    Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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