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adj. - Colored with or as if with an artist's medium for use with brush or pen made with a brown extract obtained from the soot of wood after the soot has been soaked or boiled in water

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  • 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...
  • She turned a colourless, beautifully shaped face and heavy eyes with bistred lashes towards Marion.
  • I noticed again with distress the pallor of her face and the bistred rings that weeks of nursing had put under her dark eyes.
  • He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.
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