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
Let the sun wizen up if it wants to.
From The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee
Dicky handed over the baby, whose wizen face was now relaxed in sleep, and slowly disencumbered himself of the ungainly jacket, staring at the wall in a brown study.
From A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
His majesty's commands were carried thither; and the chemist, gray and wizen, came forth, bearing a goblet filled with a dark liquid of peculiar odor.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Mary Mapes Dodge
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 Allen Chapman
