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
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
In their whiteness his pinched features seemed more wizen than ever.
From Polly of Lady Gay Cottage by Dowd, Emma C.
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
