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
She stood there, tearful and wizen, before La Teuse, who was slipping some eggs into the pocket of her apron.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
The wizen age had gone from Looey's face, and the lids were down on the strained eyes; her pale lips lay eased of the old pinching—even parted in a smile.
From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur
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
"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
