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

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

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

Ay! your common everyday sort o' breein' darena' show their bits o' wizen cheeks by daylight; but there be some 'at will abroad at all hours, without fear o' being laid by the parson.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

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