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. From Wordnik.com. [Succedaneum] Reference
She turned a colourless, beautifully shaped face and heavy eyes with bistred lashes towards Marion. From Wordnik.com. [The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy] Reference
I noticed again with distress the pallor of her face and the bistred rings that weeks of nursing had put under her dark eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
"She fell to wringing her hands, and the tears began to run from her bistred eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering Heath] Reference
The bistred rims above the fard. From Wordnik.com. [The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems] Reference
The beak that crowned the bistred face. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons] Reference
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