belitter

Updated: August 22, 2026

There was only one comfortable chair in the room, and Lady Coryston never sat in it. She objected to flowers as being in the way; and there was not a sign anywhere of the photographs and small knick-knacks which generally belitter a woman's sitting room. Altogether, an ugly room, but characteristic, businesslike, and not without a dignity of its own.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Coryston Family: A Novel