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

"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

His majesty's commands were carried thither; and the chemist, gray and wizen, came forth, bearing a goblet filled with a dark liquid of peculiar odor.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Dodge, Mary Mapes

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

Dicky handed over the baby, whose wizen face was now relaxed in sleep, and slowly disencumbered himself of the ungainly jacket, staring at the wall in a brown study.

From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur