All kinds of bistre attract moisture from the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Inside of the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Brown ochre, red ochre, and black, mixed; shaded with bistre and ivory black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Lake and flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

A thin wash of gamboge shaded with bistre; or carmine and sap-green blended together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Black lightly laid on, shaded with Keating's black and bistre, heightened with masticot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Black and white mixed, shaded with black, white, and bistre; heightened with pure water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Once sparingly used in water as a sort of substitute for bistre, it is not now to be met with on the palette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Various brown inks, principally solutions of bistre and sepia, were adopted in sketching by Claude, Rembrandt, and many of the old masters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Black, white, and Spanish liquorice, mixed; shaded with black and bistre; the inner part of the nose, vermilion and white, shaded with black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Raw sienna compounded with cobalt, indigo, or Prussian blue, and a very little bistre, yields good sea greens, that with indigo being the most fugitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

He catches a hurried look at the glass -- he sees a dreadful spectre with bistre rings around the eyelids, an ashen face, leaden lips, and great, mournful, hollow, desolate eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opium Habit] Reference

Gray Furs -- black and white mixed and shaded with bistre.    From Wordnik.com.  [History and Practice of the Art of Photography] Reference

Her eyes were hideous to him in their great rings of paint and bistre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

Black - and-white chalk drawing with bistre wash, approx. 1 '7 "x 1' 7 ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It is frothy, vivid bistre in color and tastes suspiciously like cinnamon.    From Wordnik.com.  [theRPGSite] Reference

Reddish-brown, marone, bistre with a golden light in it, suited her to perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commission in Lunacy] Reference

Honey-white face, thin dusk and bistre of eyelids and hollow temples and the roots of the hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romantic] Reference

Her face, with intent eyes just touched with bistre, had in the moonlight a most strange, otherworld look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tatterdemalion] Reference

It is executed in pen, shaded with bistre, and belongs to what I have ventured to describe as office work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference

The rings round his eyes were of the color of bistre; those orbs themselves were like the plovers 'eggs whereof Lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy] Reference

Land was left on the starboard at a distance of about fifteen miles; the mountains seemed tinged with a red-coloured bistre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference

Thoughts of the elmy fields and the bistre furrows of Elstree and the tasselled coppices of Tours crowded Burton's brain; and he wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

(moderately successfully) and bistre ink (unsuccessfully); but eventually settled on modern tools, a steel nibbed pen like a.    From Wordnik.com.  [lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts] Reference

Thoughts of the elmy fields and the bistre furrows of Elstree and the tasselled coppices of Tours crowded Burton’s brain; and he wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

It contains four eggs, white, abruptly speckled over with dark bistre mingled with some ashy spots. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

The ground-colour is grey, with a tinge of green, and it is thickly covered with small spots of bistre. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

Washed in bistre, or India ink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference

Its hearthstone, shaded with the bistre stain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 11: Poems from the Teacups Series] Reference

Rosalind's beautiful bistre-brown eyes smiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous Ages] Reference

Its hearth-stone, shaded with the bistre stain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference

Some Gallic beauty bistre-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914] Reference

7c olive-bistre, Scott's No. 92 82.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stamps of Canada] Reference

Ultramarine, and vermilion, and bistre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892] Reference