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

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

"There are two Doctor Browns in Hooe, He's short and stout—I'm tall and wizen; You've been and run the wrong one through, That's how the error has arisen."

From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

Then a weird figure, the wizen face distorted by grief and terror, appeared in the doorway—old Mary Antony, holding a meat chopper in her shaking hands, and staring, with chattering gums, into the empty cell.

From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)