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

The voice comes through their wizen mouths like wind from the crack of an old wainscot.

From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by Colman, George

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

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

And nobody ain't goin' to squat his wizen and git him out of breath.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman