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

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

"Seems ter me," whined a wizen old lady, "thet the girls knows somethin' about it, too!"

From The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies by Penrose, Margaret

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