wizen
Example Sentences
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It would wizen up, or grow ripe, or it might rot.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
"Do you remember a wizen, toothless old wretch, whose eye has more of the Evil One in it than that of many a young thief you see locked up in the county jails?"
From Hand and Ring by Green, Anna Katharine
He sat on the edge of his chair, wizen, anxious, fidgety, loaded with objections, and ready to go off half-cocked.
From Mr. Opp by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
One of the first people to call on Miss Norman was a dry, wizen monkey of a man, who announced himself as Jabez Pash, the solicitor of the deceased.
From The Opal Serpent by Hume, Fergus
Then with a wizen smirk he proudly felt No other mote of God had ever gained Such giant grasp of universal truth.
From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Masson, Thomas L.
