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
In their whiteness his pinched features seemed more wizen than ever.
From Polly of Lady Gay Cottage by Emma C. Dowd
"There are two Doctor Browns in Hooe, He's short and stout—I'm tall and wizen; You've been and run the wrong one through, That's how the error has arisen."
From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
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 William Harrison Ainsworth
The old miller rubbed his wizen cheeks and smoothed the wisps of hair on his chin, nervously as a young man does his mustache.
From The Black Cross by Olive M. Briggs
