Word: blur
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...drawn from Mr. Kipling, as anyone who has read "The Light that Failed" will admit. Henri of "The Lilac Witch," is utterly unlike Dick, of "The Light that Failed," as Sophie is utterly unlike Bessie but cutting a picture to pieces with a palette-knife is very like blur with the same instrument, even when the one is done out of jealousy and the other for revenge, and "The Lilac Witch" suffers more from the comparison which it invites than does "Lord Angus." Still the story is much above the average, and is decidedly better than the last...