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

Though his face was wizen, the leanness of his body had no appearance of weakness, but rather every sign of strength.

From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson

Then with a wizen smirk he proudly felt No other mote of God had ever gained Such giant grasp of universal truth.

From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Masson, Thomas L.

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

"Do you remember a wizen, toothless old wretch, whose eye has more of the Evil One in it than that of many a young thief you see locked up in the county jails?"

From Hand and Ring by Green, Anna Katharine