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

The next Merewig I had to scribble on was a wizen old lady, with little grey curls on the temples, very shabby in dress, and very antiquated in costume.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

That evening, as Lawrence walked briskly homeward, after his day's work, he became aware of the pale, wizen face again looking up into his through the dusk, and of a shrill voice at his side.

From Wikkey A Scrap by Vaders, Henrietta

The voice comes through their wizen mouths like wind from the crack of an old wainscot.

From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by Colman, George

When I got back in hiding I spoke out, I told him something—something that made his crabbed old soul wizen up, something that scared the daylights out of him.

From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Chapman, Allen