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

No highwayman ever more successfully clutched the wizen of his victim than did the Street with its supple fingers around the white larynx of Columbia.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various

A suit of rusty black, a parchment-coloured skin, small wizen features, a turn-up nose, scant eyebrows, and a great yellow forehead, constituted his external man.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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