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

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

"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

He had moved his chair near the door of Mr. Sim's sitting-room, where Calvin was, and now peered round the doorjamb, his body invisible, his little wizen face appearing as if hung in air.

From The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe