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
When I got back in hiding I spoke out, I told him something—something that made his crabbed old soul wizen up, something that scared the daylights out of him.
From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Chapman, Allen
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
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
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
