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
On the contrary, Dallas' evident interest in the stranger had stirred the unnatural jealousy in her father's wizen brain.
From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates
Yet, quietly observing, the Prioress could not fail to note the drawn weariness on the old face, the yellow pallor of the wizen skin, which usually wore the bright tint of a russet apple.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
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
Let the sun wizen up if it wants to.
From The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee
