It is much used as a water-colour, and for making drawings in the manner of bistre and Indian ink; but is not employed in oil, as it dries therein very reluctantly.
Various brown inks, principally solutions of bistre and sepia, were adopted in sketching by Claude, Rembrandt, and many of the old masters.
All kinds ofbistre attract moisture from the atmosphere.
Lake and flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black.
Brown ochre, red ochre, and black, mixed; shaded with bistre and ivory black.
Silver paint in bistre touched up with white, on grey paper.
Etching inbistre touched up in white for the Cambio.
A bistre pen drawing for the St. Sebastian at Panicale.
She was white as her cream cashmere dressing-gown, and there were deep bistrecircles round her more than usually brilliant eyes.
This affords always a yellow powder, without any shade of red, which passes sometimes into the bistre brown, or velvet black.
The delicate hue of the rose which usually coloured her cheeks, and appeared as it were beneath the complexion of faint bistre which denoted her Italian origin, had fled; and her sweet vermilion lips were no longer wreathed in smiles.
He swore that Judy would be a great beauty, but that she would always be like a monkey with those deep, sad eyes and the bistre stains below them that were the only tinge of colour upon her dark skin.
Why, my boys rub blue and bistretill their faces run of a stream.
Miss Miller, have you rubbed the blue and bistre I told you?
In the white light of the forenoon, the eyes of the pastor’s wife showed faded; groups of fine wrinkles were at the corners, and bistre shadows under them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bistre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
