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Here was a fair young face, on which the sun of Spain had cast faint tones of bistre which added to its expression of seraphic calmness a passionate pride, like a flash of light infused beneath that diaphanous complexion, due, perhaps, to the Moorish blood which vivified and colored it.
But it was always Ruth who rowed, Ruth in her pretty sailor blouses, with her strong round arms and steadily browning hands; Ruth, whose creamy face and neck remained provokingly unreddened, and took on only a little deeper tint, as if a dash of bistre had been softly applied.
Lake and flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black. Changeable Silk. Red lead and masticot water, shaded with sap-green and verdigris. Another. Lake and yellow, shaded with lake and Prussian blue. Cloud Colour. Light masticot, or lake and white, shaded with blue verditer. Another. Constant white and Indian ink, and a little vermilion. Another.
Sap-green, shaded with indigo and French berries; the stalk brown. Honeysuckles. Inside of the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre. The insides are to be shown by curling the leaves back at the ends, or by splitting them. The outsides, a thin wash of carmine and lake mixed, shaded with carmine indigo for the darkest shades. Stalks. Sap-green and carmine. Leaves.
They are Gizeh and Memphis the eternal pyramids. At the north of the town there is a corner of the desert quite singular in its character of the colour of bistre and of mummy where a whole colony of high cupolas, scattered at random, still stand upright in the midst of sand and desolate rocks. It is the proud cemetery of the Mameluke Sultans, whose day was done in the Middle Ages.
The Liber Veritatis, it should be observed, is the title given to a portfolio of over two hundred drawings in pen and bistre, or Indian ink, which is now in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire.
Whitehead," said I for that was her name, though she said she did not deserve it; and her hair confirmed her in that position by growing darker from year to year "Madam, allow me to beg you to vary your diet a little at this sad time." "I varies it every day, Mr. Bistre," she answered somewhat snappishly. "The days of the week is not so many but what they all come round again."
Billings in fact, in unclean canvas shoes and a frantic endeavour to find favour in the bistre enlarged eyes of a certain slim black figure, was executing the very double shuffle which had "brought down" the second class dining saloon honoured for the nonce by the presence of the first class, on the occasion of one of the purgatorial concerts habitual to sea life as known on board a liner.
And yet the boat is not empty. Seven human forms are seen within it, six of them living, and one dead. Of the living, four are full-grown men; three of them white, the fourth of an umber-brown, or bistre colour.
Her face, all but the white curve of her cheek and forehead, was hidden from him, but he could see the ivory bistre at the nape of her bowed neck, with the delicate black tendrils of her curls clustering above it. Her throat, as she stooped over her task, was puckered and gathered, like some incredibly soft stuff, in little folds under her chin.
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