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

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

The little creature hid her wizen face in her withered little hands and sobbed.

From Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment by Aconite, Tobias

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

On the contrary, Dallas' evident interest in the stranger had stirred the unnatural jealousy in her father's wizen brain.

From The Plow-Woman by Gates, Eleanor