| 单词 | withers |
| 例句 | The Son mutters, “May you never bear fruit again,” and instantly the fig tree withers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She was slightly taller than Ash, and she rested her left arm on the horse’s withers; the sleeves of her tunic were pushed up, and her hands were bare. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Billy found a sack and rubbed the pony’s legs violently and he rubbed the chest and the withers. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z More commonly, the dryness comes back and the fuzz of grass withers or a little frost curls it and there’s that amount of seed wasted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Smith pulled the saddle over Seabiscuit’s withers and tightened the girth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lancelot leaned on the withers of his horse, lifted his right leg over the crupper, and found himself on the ground. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I got me a second rope and tied it tight around his middle, just back of his withers. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z McCarthy shoved his way up to the horse and propped a microphone on Seabiscuit’s withers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared without expression at the half-page newspaper photos of himself, taken an instant before the wreck, showing him coiled over Fair Knightess’s withers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt the stiff, arched withers of two German police dogs who ran together and often teamed to fight and get licked by the Gray. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Though a little lower at the withers and nearly half a foot shorter, nose to tail, Seabiscuit seemed a cumbersome giant in comparison. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day that I don’t dance, a sliver of my soul withers. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z But the babies die, Hattie’s soul withers, and she turns bitter and unloving. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z Putting Fitzgerald on screen is a thankless business — his infinitely delicate realism withers in the light, and if you can’t capture the texture of his prose, there’s really no point. Amazon’s Literary Forays for TV: ‘The Interestings’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Collecting passion withers away if it is not regularly fed. A Shifting Balance of Power 2010-09-24T12:29:00Z First, there’s the beautiful, fragrant rose, which withers after a brief life. Flamenco?s Women Put Their Foot Down 2012-02-23T23:40:04Z Address these underlying causes, the theory goes, and violence withers. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z As the man withers away, the images become more hallucinatory — here’s a boat come to take him across the River Styx — but not more involving. | 'The Sound of Insects': A Man?s Slow Suicidal Walk to Starvation in the Forest 2010-12-22T00:29:04Z The top growth of perennials withers in the fall and winter, but the crown of the plant remains year-round at or just below soil level. Americans love mulch — and many of us are misusing it 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z As the discourse of the common good and compassion withers, the only vocabulary left is that of the bully – one who takes pride in the civic-enervating binary of winners and losers. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z After the bloom withers, a single leaf grows in its place. Giant, smelly flower finally puts on show at Volunteer Park 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z My son Ramón was the victim of my wrath at a particular time that still withers me with disgrace. Martin Sheen: ‘Which living person do I most despise? Yellow Hair' 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Their photographs testify in unvarnished speech that industrial design of yesterday is admirable and should be preserved, even as the industrial era withers. August Sander/Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘A Dialogue’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But as the movie follows her from audition to audition and she doesn’t get called back, her spirits sink and her self-esteem withers. Review: ‘The Last Five Years,’ a Decoupling Starring Anna Kendrick 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The history of American religion suggests that when government involves itself in religion, religion withers on the vine; whereas when governments neither helps nor hinders, religious life flourishes. Should atheists fight for religion in government? 2013-04-16T18:50:00Z The woman blooms in their galactic abode; the man withers. Review: ‘The Outer Space’ is the Place, for an Unsettled Couple 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z "As almonds ripen, the green fuzz withers away and the inner seed hardens into what we picture as a traditional almond," Prapaisilp said. 5 rare pieces of produce to try this spring, according to an expert international grocery buyer 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z This is probably down to Southern blight, a soil-borne fungus that attacks the base of plants, so everything above the damage — the entire top growth — withers and dies. Surveying the garden after a soggy summer 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Gradually the fairytale withers, and yet the music carries on. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: No 14 2010-10-16T10:41:00Z Meanwhile, their immediate locale withers in the grip of a long-term drought, and Livy’s grandmother may lose her farm. Review | Best new children’s and YA books to read this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The Great Dane, from Essex, U.K., was awarded his title in 2016 for his massive height of 3 feet 4 inches from foot to withers. World’s tallest dog, 8-year-old Great Dane, dies 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z All that enchantment withers up and blows away, skittering with the leaves across Gatsby's dusty lawn. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z One of the biggest bummers for a new gardener is when a newly-bought seedling or plant withers a day or two after its been planted. 8 gardening tips from Instagram and TikTok 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z As satire withers, the question is: Has America turned into a spoof itself? Satire, art and culture 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z “It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” A Syrian Refugee Lands in Ireland in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z In short, I was amused and diverted but my withers were never wrung. Review|Theatre|Women Beware Women, Olivier, London|Michael Billington 2010-04-27T23:29:00Z This is one of those odd series where everyone kills their performances despite the nonsensical dialogue and a plot that withers into nothing before your eyes. "Ratched" gilds pop culture's most famous nurse into something unrecognizable and barely watchable 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z When local news withers, bad things happen, studies show. Perspective | When local news goes away, citizens suffer. Gannett’s megamerger will probably just inflict more pain. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z She cited a Zen koan that she’s been thinking about lately: How is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall? A Dancer and Chaplain Illuminates the Invisible With Patience 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z While Milo’s natural curiosity withers in the classroom, it flourishes in Ursula’s garden. Schools of Thought Control 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z While he says that it will be “many, many years” before jihadist terrorism “withers and dies,” he believes that it does not pose an existential threat like World War II or the Cold War. Review: Peter Bergen’s ‘United States of Jihad’ Surveys Homegrown Terrorism 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z There are also hints of the apocalypse as the natural world outside the cabin withers, with dead birds piling up on the ground and the once-fertile earth becoming barren. | 'Orange, Hat & Grace': A Salt-of-the-Earth Romance Amid Shadows of the Apocalypse 2010-09-23T02:01:00Z “That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction,” wrote Benjamin, “is the aura of the work of art.” | Snap Tonic 2010-10-25T15:39:00Z What blossoms, withers, and is more beautiful for that. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Each time she blossoms and withers, the book segues into a new historical epoch. An Urdu Epic Puts India’s Partition Into Historical Perspective 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z As Christianity withers in Europe, old churches are converted into apartments and community centers, and new churches seem determined to accommodate secular habits. Book review: ‘Sacred Spaces,’ a report on Modernism in religious buildinghs 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, “The Past” is one of those books that withers in summary. Family tensions simmer in Tessa Hadley’s exquisite novel ‘The Past’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The pain of an elderly woman in Greece will not change the behavior of oil companies and oligarchs, who spend billions on rocket ships as Gaia withers and burns. Perspective | The photos of Greece on fire are shocking. But shock doesn’t always lead to change. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Within a rhetoric of universal approbation, every writer turns craven; all talent withers. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Once that occurs, the flower withers, enabling the insects to escape with the pollen stuck to their bodies. Hold Your Breath! A Stinky Corpse Flower Is About to Bloom In San Francisco! 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The resulting pack animals measured 61 inches, or 15 hands, from the ground to the withers. At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z For others, something essential withers in the heart — the compulsion to push and punish themselves daily to stay at the top. As Serena Williams is proving, retiring from tennis can be complicated 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z But as the church withers in Europe, its geographical heart has shifted to places like Latin America and Africa. The world’s cardinals, who will pick the next pope, get to know one another 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Even a throwaway line such as “He already had gout ... he has gout,” which starts as a full-throated protest and withers to a meek complaint, benefits from Foxx’s finely tuned comic sensibility. Review: It's Jamie Foxx vs Valley vampires in Netflix's bloody fun 'Day Shift' 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z But at the same time, Deutsche abandoned a cost target for 2022, threw doubt on its profit target and scaled back the outlook for its global investment banking division as dealmaking withers. Europe's banks flash some good news but downbeat on economy 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Butter or cream of unique quality may be more essential to French cuisine, but many an unctuous sauce withers into insipidity without mustard. Mon Dieu! No Mustard. France Stews Without its Beloved Condiment. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Shame withers in the daylight, and Pride invites us all to step into the sun. The fight for queer rights continues 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z In contrast, the rate for urban youth has shot up to 18.2%, its highest on record, as corporate hiring withers amid the pandemic and regulatory crackdowns on the private education, tech and other sectors. No work and nowhere to live: a rural migrant's ordeal in locked-down Shanghai 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z As they hauled the matador out the door, the bull, still with Manolete’s sword in its withers, crumpled in on itself, dead. The Matador and Me: Coming to Terms with My Famously Ugly Lookalike 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z As temperatures warm and rainfall withers, for example, plant populations will have to extend their ranges by as much as tens of kilometers per year to stay in their optimal climate conditions. Loss of seed-hauling animals spells trouble for plants in warming world 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Remove individual flowers as they fade, but leave the green stem until it withers naturally. How to keep your holiday plants perky after the festivities have faded 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Delicate and melancholy, Rose withers under Phil’s harsh gaze, turning to drink to escape his belittling taunts and lingering presence, until she can hardly stand to leave her bed. Analysis | Jane Campion’s masterful ‘Power of the Dog’ had a fascinating and much maligned precursor 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Rainfall will dip south into Washington by sunrise Thursday before the atmospheric river sags into Oregon and withers. Atmospheric rivers to blast British Columbia yet again with more flooding 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, her hopeful vision withers in the harsh light of facts, and she is not alone — many people in the political and media classes share such dangerously naïve views. Fascism or freedom? America is stuck in an ugly and dangerous in-between 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Any further rallies in oil prices will likely lead to a sharper sell-off in the future as demand withers and more consumers opt for electric vehicles, Wood said. ARK Invest's Cathie Wood looks past rising consumer prices to focus on deflation 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z But the amendment could have a wider effect than that - encouraging the Legislature to pass important legislation that too often withers in darkness. Editorial Roundup: New England 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z He consumes the hills, scorches the wilderness, and withers the grass like fire. Order of Service for the funeral of Prince Philip 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Timing matters because each cotton flower is receptive to pollen for just a few hours and withers by sunset. Butterflies provide ‘extraordinary’ help pollinating cotton fields 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z As Democrats respond to the economic fallout of the pandemic, Amazon makes an ideal antagonist, making billions while the rest of the economy withers. Amazon is becoming the face of American inequality 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z And Public Indifference ignores the peril to democracy as the local free press withers. Find the state Capitol reporters for a hint about the health of the free press 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The sport always has breathed with a large handful of kingdoms, but if the handful dwindles and variety withers, does the sport wither alongside? Analysis | Notre Dame’s problem against the Alabamas of the world is also college football’s problem 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z When a fig tree withers or falls to the ground naturally, the Kikuyu see it as a bad omen or a signal to transfer power from one traditional age set or generation to the next. Viewpoint: Why Kenya's giant fig tree won over a president 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z That structure, known as the median artery, usually withers away during the first trimester of pregnancy, although it occasionally lingers past that point. An extra artery in the human arm is a sign we're "still evolving," study says 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Then he delivered a coup de grâce: “That’s how a democracy withers, until it’s no democracy at all.” 'Our democracy is deeply imperiled': how democratic norms are under threat ahead of the US election 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z That’s how a democracy withers, until it’s no democracy at all.” Obama delivers searing attack on Trump and warns of grave threat to democracy 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The jet maker’s losses ballooned to $2.4 billion in the second quarter, and it will cut production and jobs as demand for aircraft withers. AMD, L Brands rise; Boeing, Six Flags fall 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Boeing, already besieged by problems with its marquee aircraft, is now dealing with a wave of order cancellations as travel withers. Pandemic shakes up earnings season – some win, some lose 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z "The distribution of working-age populations will be crucial to whether humanity prospers or withers." 'Jaw-dropping' world fertility rate crash expected 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z U.S. stocks delivered one of their worst starts to a year on Tuesday, with markets staggering under trillions in losses as the economy withers amid a coronavirus-induced paralysis. Dow caps its worst first quarter with a slide of more than 400 points 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z He has also pushed for further tax cuts as the economy withers, arguing it would soften the financial blow to Americans. Trump's death cult finally says it: Time to kill the "useless eaters" for capitalism 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Airlines around the globe are feeling the pain as travel demand withers because of the coronavirus outbreak. Coronavirus halts Lufthansa's sale of international catering operations: sources 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z But the journey to sustainability will be a slow one, as the region glides toward the deadline – and as climate change further withers the state. ‘Surviving is a real question’: can small farms endure under California’s landmark water law? 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Euphoria withers, when they see our stern faces. How to stop a war: Why I risked prison by burning thousands of draft cards 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z By the observance of unwritten rules, mostly learned from parents, we avoid being codified into social death — smothered by written rules and drowned in formal adjudications as learned civility withers. Opinion | Poor bat behavior is a stain on baseball’s unwritten standards 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z But now, as the Argentine league wilts under financial stress, the dream withers away. Argentine invasion: why all of your favorite MLS stars are Argentinian 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z All this will be impossible if Brazil’s scientific capacity withers. To save Brazil’s rainforest, boost its science 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Whether Taibbi is examining botched coverage of the Russia investigation or a straightforward column on media habits in suburban New York, everything withers under his microscope. Review | Who split America? A journalist looks to his own for answers. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “When its leek finally withers, Sirfetch’d will leave the battlefield and retire from battling entirely.” New Pokémon leeks 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z “That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art,” Benjamin wrote. Why go to the theater? It’s inconvenient. It can be uncomfortable. And here’s why I love it. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z As the community withers, the narrator, living alone in her childhood house, struggles to record the losses in stories. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Warren’s assertion that household debt is a harbinger of doom also withers under scrutiny. Opinion | Elizabeth Warren is the real economic threat 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z After all, without a healthy player base that keeps queue times low and activities well populated, a game like Destiny withers until only the tiniest fraction of hardcore players is left. Bungie unveils big Destiny 2 shift with Shadowkeep expansion and free-to-play version 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z In such company, amid a barrage of grungy tales, a fan can find that innocence withers fast. The Rise and Fall of a New York Shock Jock 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z It seems like, among other things a miserable mindset, one that aggrandizes your ego but withers your soul. Why you'll never meet a white supremacist who cares about climate change | Rebecca Solnit 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z A world in which it withers away is one in which Facebook has to first replace, than exceed the revenues it currently generates from advertising. Facebook’s pivot to privacy has huge implications — if it’s real 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z And, while Stan withers in the unfamiliar environment, his wife discovers a new form of expression and exchange: she begins to paint, offering the results as gifts. The Hallucinatory Realism of Rachel Ingalls 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z What happens is that democracy withers and dies both as an ideal and as a reality. How higher education has been weaponized in the age of Trump — and how it can be redeemed 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Regarding the Nov. 16 editorial “Far from Britain’s finest hour” and front-page article “May clings to her Brexit deal as support withers”: Opinion | What’s the deal with Brexit? 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The body withers while the image endures — if properly backed up on a flash drive, of course. How has the selfie evolved? This new Portrait Gallery exhibition charts its rise, from 1900. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z If Pelosi enjoys the overwhelming support of Democratic members, and the faction opposing her withers soon after, that will be that. Why the arguments against Nancy Pelosi fall short 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The practice boomed last year amid a crackdown on shadow banking, but now, as share prices collapse and collateral withers, creditors are suffering. In China, response to pledged share meltdown stirs concern 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Alone onstage, Gandhi channels Krishna’s promise to return to Earth in “visible shape and move a man with men for the protection of good” whenever “righteousness withers away and lawlessness arises.” Review: Los Angeles Opera's 'Satyagraha' lives up to Gandhi's ideals - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z It makes credible and comprehensible the idea that philosophy is never placeless and that thinking that is uprooted from any land soon withers and dies. About time: why western philosophy can only teach us so much 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Truth withers in the face of power like that. Conservatives aren’t afraid of Anita Hill redux: They know power matters more than truth 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z But the second you pick it back up, the tree withers and dies. ‘Digital wellness’ efforts battle tech addiction 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Over-complicate the story, as cricket has done to an insane extent, and the habit withers. Losing my cricket religion but can novelty of baseball fill the gap? | Matthew Engel 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z But literature, like the economy, withers when it closes itself off from the world. Books by immigrants, foreigners and minorities don’t diminish the ‘classic’ curriculum. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z However over the last 11 weeks, US coal production is below even 2016 levels as coal consumption withers due to competition from cheaper renewables and natural gas. Rising Coal Exports Give Short-Term Aid to an Ailing Industry 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Leaves change colors for autumn; Washington withers into crisis. Perspective | The Redskins aren’t hurting themselves. This time, they’re just hurting. 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z When Love does not play, the chance of thrills withers. Saquon Barkley and Bryce Love: See how far they’ve run 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z As Isis withers, the most vulnerable among its ranks are becoming ever more exposed. Scorned and stateless: children of Isis fighters face an uncertain future 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Heat wave hits Portland, and a laid-back city withers. 'Death by a thousand cuts': Empty State Dept. offices sap morale, some staffers say 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z “If you take out the biggest mouth, everybody just withers away, so you concentrate on the ones you believe are your organizers,” he said. NYPD officers accessed Black Lives Matter activists' texts, documents show 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z While the west withers, eastern Mosul was last week steadily returning to life. Mosul families trapped on the frontline of the war against Isis: 'What can we do?' 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Like every other aspect of her dad’s campaign, the marketing of Ivanka as a force for good behind enemy lines is a lie that withers upon contact with observable reality. What good is Ivanka Trump? The President’s daughter is more than complicit — she’s a chip off the old block 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Easy access to guns, yes; unfettered encryption, yes; radical free speech, yes. a monetary system untethered to any government, really yes; a government that itself withers away, Marx-style, really, really yes. At Sundance, an anarchist creates waves 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z If the root withers altogether, he says, Hong Kong loses not just methods of self defense but “an embodied system of knowledge and communication.” Preserving Hong Kong's Vanishing Martial Arts 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine. Maturity gets it done, no whining 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z What I mean is that, under the onslaught of the placeless, transnational capital that McDonald’s exemplifies, democracy as a living system withers and dies. No country with a McDonald’s can remain a democracy | George Monbiot 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The seeds mature through late fall, and the entire plant withers to an orange-brown whisk resembling a tiny weeping willow. Coastal Jointweed Brings Fall Blooms to City’s Barrens 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z This is not a pitcher who withers under pressure. Cubs Banish Decades of Anguish From Wrigley 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z If an oil company does not replace the oil and gas it produces and sells, it withers away. How Eni Bet Big and Won Big on Natural Gas off Egypt 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z As her body withers, she needs a helper to visit four times daily. Paralympian Vervoort prepared to take own life _ but not yet 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z One, a robotics start-up, failed to attract private capital and closed, while the other, a mobile game company, is struggling to stay afloat as its business withers. Venture Communism: How China Is Building a Start-Up Boom 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Improved roads, water systems and telecommunications all help make an economy attractive when the mineral wealth withers. Why Resource-Rich Economies Are Really Cursed 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Venezuela withers away a little more each week. Harrowing scenes of Venezuela on the brink of collapse 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z So prices will probably continue to rise—unless Britons vote on June 23rd to leave the European Union, and demand for London property withers. The grip tightens 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s different when an ageing athlete hits the crossroads and, as time closes in, the old intensity withers away. Andy Murray: ‘I want my daughter to be proud of her dad when she grows up’ 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get all the attention,” Obama warned. What a divided America actually hears when Obama speaks 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z What we are left with, these 15 years later, is a “persistent low-level threat that will likely take many, many years before it withers and dies.” Which Americans are most likely to become home-grown terrorists? 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z That leaves us all with a persistent low-level threat—and it will probably be many, many years before it withers and dies. Can We Stop Homegrown Terrorists? 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The president made a poignant point: “Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention.” Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Obama Overlooked Black Women 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z "Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention." President Barack Obama casts a hopeful vision in his final State of the Union address and rebuts critics including Republican presidential candidates 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z This time, Obama suggests, he is hoping that we’ll see something a bit more constructive: “Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention,” the president lamented. Obama gave the anti-Trump movement a rallying cry for 2016: "against fear" | Lucia Grave 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z “Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention,” he said. Obama's Last SOTU Mirrors His 2004 Convention Speech 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet, Obama cautioned: “Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention.” How Obama Used the State of the Union to Discredit Trump 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Miniature Horses are usually less than 34 to 38 inches as measured at the last hairs of the mane, which are found near the withers. Casscoe family shares love of miniature horses 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z It's a great opportunity to chop up the cucumber before it withers away in your crisper drawer. How One Dietitian Eats Well and Saves Money 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z If and when egg prices settle back to normal will depend on when the virus dies down, and whether it withers away for good. Eggs are no longer the cheapest source of animal protein 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z This is already far above what the I.M.F. set as a “sustainable” target of 110 percent, and could increase to 200 percent and more in coming years if the economy withers further. Personalities Clashing Over How to Handle New Greek Bailout 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Then they’re left powerless when the job/role/title changes, the relationship sours, the association withers, or the bank balance plunges. Power Primer: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, How To Get It 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to charge water users for over-consumption in areas hit with some of California's toughest reduction mandates as the state withers from a four-year drought. Los Angeles County orders water fees to reach state cutback goal 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s even worse to turn away from what scares you, because when you do, deep inside, a little piece of you withers and dies. 14 Motivational Quotes to Keep You Powerful 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Think of Swift’s Houyhnhnms, trotting down the road, their withers shining in the sun, saying sober, passionless things to Gulliver. The Truth About Animal Stories 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr Hadi is stuck in a guest palace in Saudi Arabia, effectively in exile, while his remaining support base withers away in Yemen. No clear winners or losers in Yemen as conflict rages 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The global economy is caught in a low-growth trap as innovation withers and the population ages across the Northern Hemisphere. Don't Worry Too Much About The IMF On Secular Stagnation 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z As funding withers to nothing for the department at the end of the month, the finger-pointing is in full force. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z In either case, time does not appear to be on the protesters’ side, as popular support withers. Fiction Echoes Political Fact in Hong Kong TV Drama 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Asia is widely considered the future of the Catholic Church, growing there while it withers in traditionally Christian Europe. Pope to comfort Filipino victims of deadly typhoon 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Whereas most science fiction withers out in space, “Interstellar” rockets home. Review: ‘Interstellar’ a sublime cosmic knockout 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z As the cultural relevance of angry white men on the internet withers away and ends, their last words – muttered angrily at an empty room – will surely be “Gamer ... gate”. Gamergate is loud, dangerous and a last grasp at cultural dominance by angry white men 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The American Miniature Horse Registry accepts horses up to 38 inches tall at the withers. Florida’s miniature horses have their fans 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The “stand your ground” defense withers when your victims are alive, and doubly fails when they serve as witnesses to a crime, living to tell the tale. For every Michael Dunn guilty verdict, a George Zimmerman still goes free 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Harrold, a University of Washington graduate now at Montana State, sees the caves as a natural laboratory to study microbes that flourish where most life withers. Under Rainier’s crater, a natural laboratory like no other 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z If the GOP’s bid to retake the Senate withers and dies on the prairie, it would be one of the cruelest ironies imaginable. Surprise Twist in Kansas Scrambles Senate Fight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z With ALS, the mind remains crystal clear while the body withers, piece by piece. Why I'm Deeply Grateful for the Ice Bucket Challenge 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The American Miniature Horse Association accepts horses that measure fewer than 34 inches at the withers - the area between the shoulder blades and typically the highest point on the animal’s body. Florida’s miniature horses have their fans 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The ecosystem that sustained New York City for centuries, great wealth alongside modest means, withers. Stuyvesant Town, Former Middle-Class Bastion, Awaits Mayoral Help 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z What is so puzzling about modern America is how it thrives and withers at the same time — often within the same industries, neighborhoods and families. Letter From America: A Tangled Fate of Prosperity and Struggle 2014-02-17T16:54:08Z She reads the comments, and part of her soul withers. Anonymity Will Soon Be Illegal [100 Words Into The Future] 2013-12-06T15:51:00Z She had nice, high withers but her ribs and hips stuck out.” The Jockey 2013-08-14T13:07:46Z Without some faith in ministers' veracity, public trust in democracy withers still further. Ministers who misuse statistics to mislead voters must pay the price 2013-05-31T19:30:01Z Pick the wrong place to run the company and it withers in the struggle to get them. Why It Matters Where You Locate Your Start-up 2013-05-29T13:09:21Z They worry that the country’s ambitious environmental goals are far less meaningful if the economy withers in achieving them. New hopes for shale gas in green’s paradise 2013-04-24T10:47:12Z This criticism started on the right for a reason – because it withers the left. Are you too white, rich, able-bodied and straight to be a feminist? 2013-04-18T07:29:01Z As this administration withers, The Apprentice seems darker, more prescient and metaphorical – a television game show where the first prize is a job. Say hello to zero hours, kiss goodbye to workers' rights 2013-04-14T19:30:01Z If most of it withers and dies, so much the better. Is JPMorgan Too Big & Complex To Manage? 2013-03-21T15:06:56Z In contrast, someone at high risk of depression with little social support might fall into the depths of despair for months on end after a budding romance wilts and withers. Researchers Take a Closer Look at the Most Common and Powerful Triggers of Depression 2013-02-07T13:15:00.200Z If that reform drive withers, the consequences would spread far beyond Italian shores. Analysis: Berlusconi adds new instability to embattled Italy 2012-07-18T12:58:23Z Photograph: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images There is a certain kind of hero that never quite withers. With Mark Ramprakash goes the last imprint of an era of cricket 2012-07-06T22:02:04Z The tree at the centre of the town grows more leaves the more stories listened to and withers if none are read. Do smart devices make smart kids? 2012-07-06T05:24:47Z His croup – the highest point of his hind quarters — was as high as or higher than his withers, a characteristic that was reckoned to be undesirable in a racer. The Rail: The Rail Bookshelf: 'Eclipse' 2012-06-04T16:48:17Z The moment the object fails to pay an exorbitant interest in gratitude, the impulse to speculate withers up. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Always bear in mind to keep your hands quite down upon your horse's withers, and never interfere with his mouth. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z "Understand one thing, lad!" he said, laying his hand on the withers of my horse. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z There were moments such as this when his withers were wrung; when the consequence which the title had brought failed to soften the hardships of his lot--a poor peer with a vast house. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z In prosperity the heart withers; in adversity, it blooms. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Your saddle should fit so that when you are in it you can thrust your riding-whip under the pommel and to the cantle along the horse's backbone; otherwise you may get sore withers. Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle 2012-03-26T02:00:39.977Z That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z No man could deny the truth of the picture; the galled jade was obliged to wince; this time it was my withers that were wrung. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Though he did not say so, we felt that he would have liked to apologize to us for its intrusion in the show; but our withers were unwrung. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z On the neck and withers this stripe is formed by the mane. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z He withers when a player sets a pick on him. The End of Linsanity? Studying Jeremy Lin's Rough New On Court Reality 2012-03-13T19:35:31Z He who swallows abundantly does not digest it, and instead of being nourished and strengthened, he withers insensibly away. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z "This is a better horse than the one I've had," she commented, stroking the pony's withers and hoping to start talk that would make the interval of waiting one of ease between them. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z A STEM, without its bloom, quickly withers in the forest of everday life. Why STEM is not enough (and we still need the humanities) 2012-03-05T09:00:00Z Instead of putting the saddle in the middle of the horse’s back, where it had always been placed previously, it was shifted forward on to the animal’s withers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The flower is pressed to the bosom with intense emotion, but in the home of love it withers and is cast away. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Before mounting, always see that the saddle is not put on the top of the withers, but just behind them, so that the weight does not fall on the top of the shoulders. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z "I was, ma'am," he said, soberly, lifting and seating her on Abe's withers. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z Barley occasionally withers after flowering, the grain atrophying from no known cause, terms like consumption given to the disease conveying no information. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z "What do you mean?" he asked, and straightened himself, resting his hand on the mare's withers. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z I walked by Marie, with my hand on the withers of her horse, but we did not talk. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z If it is a well-made saddle and does not come down too low on the withers, a horse should very rarely have a bad back. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z This rounded seed-bed, or receptacle, as it is called in our botany, shortly withers, and the winged parachutes take flight at the slightest zephyr, whereas at first a smart breeze would have been required. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Necks stretched, hocks moving royally, tails flying; Farm-lads up, and they crouching low on their withers. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z As she swung, painfully, to the movement of the horse across whose withers she lay, her pendant hands lacked little of touching, under cover of the stuff, his bound wrists. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z With a sudden gesture he leaned over and laid his hand on the withers of my lady's horse. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z But alas, the approach of death withers life itself. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z Flixton answered with the superabundant patience of the man whose withers are not wrung. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Neither is it true that "family life withers under the cold sneer—half pity and half scorn—with which I look down on household worship." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z It is a philosophy of a class, of a few, and of the few who are fortunate; and, when misfortune overtakes them, this philosophy fades and withers. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z I expected her to make a to-do about giving up the child; but she did not, and I lifted it to the withers of my horse. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z This ceremony always takes place during the night, but they allow the bush to remain until it withers. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z As he felt the blade across his withers Diego shrieked aloud and spurred past the boundaries of the lists, thus, according to the rules of the combat, admitting himself vanquished. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Family life withers under the cold sneer—half pity and half scorn—with which you look down on household worship. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z The Kentucky mountaineer withers into quick decay between prison walls, and, unless appearances were deceitful, this one was already being beckoned to by the specter of tuberculosis. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Then my poor child, my darling one, Will never feel the smart Of their unjust and cruel scorn, That withers all the heart. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z The flowers are papilionaceous, and the leaves of a light green; the nut, which grows from the root, is not dug until the plant withers. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z It is like the sensitive plant, it need not be cropped; extend but your hand, it withers and dies.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z After giving birth to the Gospel, Judaism dries up and withers like a tree that has borne its fruit and whose season is past. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z It is a rose that withers—a white rose: take it while it blooms. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z A plant cannot grow up under the great Ivi tree, for the great Ivi overshadows it, and the grass or plant beneath withers away. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z On the banks of the Missouri one sometimes sees a mighty oak the stem and branches of which are so encircled, fettered, and interlaced by a gigantic wild vine, that it withers as if choked. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z A plant either withers and wilts, or it shoots up into a monstrous and unsightly growth. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z When the sap of piety fails, theology withers. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z James is called withering, and he is truly withering, who with prudence withers his fleshly vices, and the instigation of the devil. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z In the same animal the muscular fibres of the panniculus of the trunk arise along a line which connects the stifle-joint to the withers, a line which is, consequently, oblique upwards and forwards. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Under this drouthlike action the vegetation withers in the hot and dry zones. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z Without trains and buses running efficiently, New York City withers. City Room: A Deal Within the Tax Deal: Transit Riders Beware 2011-12-08T13:27:44Z He lifted the body across the withers of his horse and picked up the Colt. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z If by chance it misses its aim and its tail strikes a young tree and penetrates the bark, that tree immediately begins to droop, and before long withers and dies. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Three times this measure, plus a half-width of the pastern, the equivalent of two heads and a half, will give: The height of the body, taken from the top of the withers to the ground. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z After the flower withers, the stalk of the ovary has the peculiarity of elongating and bending down, forcing the young pod underground, and thus the seeds become matured at some distance below the surface. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z It was a pretty shot, well placed, though rather high, breaking the spine close below the withers. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z As soon as his middle is the height of the horse's withers, he will pass the right leg over the croup, without touching it, and place himself lightly in the saddle. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z If I by slander cover some poor girl with the leprosy of some imputed crime, and she withers away like a blighted flower, and afterwards I get forgiveness, how does that help her? Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z The third of the length of the hind-quarter and of the body taken together, as far as the vertical from the withers, touching the elbow. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The Vampire Bat," says Professor Darwin, "is often the cause of much trouble by biting the horses on their withers. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z She, poor girl, withers like a lily; she lives for her children, but it is a living death. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z I think, that for the horse to be stylish and regular in his movements, the croup should be on a level with the withers; such was the construction of the old English horses. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z In Congress, but one question only ever wrung his withers or strained his strength. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z The depression of the back in relation to the summit of the withers. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z A nation flourishes or withers with the development and vigor of its Industry. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z To write nothing more than the very words spoken by the character is a course that withers all the powers of my soul. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Horses with a low croup, or withers very high in proportion to their croup, were preferred by horsemen of the old school, and are still in favor now-a-days among amateur horsemen. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z It is emphatically a Paradise lost, for the hand of the Turks is upon it; a hand that withers all that it touches. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z From the summit of the withers to the point of the arm, H, E. 3. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Driscoll, knowing a good deal more about the first than he did about the last, professed his withers to be unwrung. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z It lasts only about a day, after which it shrivels and withers away. City Room: Answers About Mushrooms, Part 1 2011-10-20T15:57:10Z An increasing arm enlarges itself by drawing its strength from the other parts, hence the body withers as the hand enlarges, and in turn the hand shrinks when the leg increases in size. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Nor should we complain that the blight of death so quickly withers what the course of threescore years has scarce sufficed to produce. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z In the horse the spinous processes of the first dorsal vertebræ produce the prominence at the anterior limit of the trunk, where the mane ends, which is known as the withers. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Her colour had faded, leaving a sallow tone to her skin, which was of the fine, rose-leaf texture that withers early. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z But immediately afterwards he thought that even such a flower must wither, and nothing withers or dies without pain. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The Bishop makes a gesture of impatience and withers the judge who had last spoken with a look of condemnation. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z The Divine Presence withers up everything of that kind, and levels all human pretension. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z The height of the shoulders from the summit of the elbow to the top of the withers. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z I like its roundnesses—and I hate the jaggy dryness of lime-stone, that burns in the sun, and withers. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z It is not so easy now to wring our withers, and more often than not it is on the other side of the Atlantic that the galled jade winces. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z In more southern regions, especially in the hot, dry climates where vegetation withers in midsummer, it is well known that some caterpillars become lethargic, remaining inactive until the fall rains start vegetation into growth. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z The stem of one of the bryonies withers up so completely that the shrinkage, aided by a little wind, snaps it. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The distance from the summit of the withers to the junction of the neck with the thorax. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z RIM is finding the United States a particularly tough market as its leading position withers in the face of an onslaught from Apple's iPhone and then the phones Android. Analysis: Canadians who follow RIM take pity on a local hero 2011-07-26T12:58:16Z Such a part cannot be preserved; it withers, it decays, and is dispersed, so that the whole can never be reconstituted. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z See how soon he withers and shrinks up and says, "What is the use of trying any more; I might as well give up my religion." The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z Apart from all the rest they saw her, with the Choctaw keeping watch close by, his hand clutching the withers of his horse. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z Finally, the difference of the height of the crupper with respect to the summit of the withers. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z I know those petty wise-saws which circulate like counterfeit money: that love withers, grows old, passes away, vanishes, and that finally habit alone is the bond between man and woman. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z Occasionally I would see low withers, a water-shoot tail, or drooping quarters. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z He thought of these things until he felt himself to be a very lonely, desolate man; for the heart is like a vine, it withers and dies if it has nothing to embrace. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z But now the idea that Josephine may be ill, and, above all, the cruel thought that she may love me less, withers my soul, and leaves me not even the courage of despair. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Goubeaux and Barrier replace this by the following: ‘The width of neck at its inferior attachment from its insertion into the chest to the origin of the withers, S, X.’ Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z A beautiful beast with white stockings behind, deep chest, high withers, short, straight back. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z But low withers limit propulsion from the shoulder, and while there may be good knee action the pony must pay out strength to get it. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z There are no trees shedding their leaves on the river's margin, no turf that withers, no soil worn away by the flood: the scene is an image of eternal changelessness. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z At other times he withers an unfair argument or a confused statement to a cinder by some lightning-flash of humor or satire. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z "Truth crush'd to earth, shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers; But error, wounded, withers with pain, And dies among his worshippers." Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z She moved back to the rock on which she had stood and rested a hand on the pinto's withers. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z I have heard it said that the arching crest is not easy to secure in conjunction with high withers, but the combination is often found in the Welsh pony. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z The confinement of a free people within narrow limits seems only to develop new resources of wealth, comfort and happiness; while slave society, pent up, withers and dies. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z "Hold!" shouted the chief, seizing her by the arm and dragging her into the moonlight; "hold, before the word withers your tongue—Anna Hutchinson was your grandmother." Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z It is obvious that when the advocacy of common honesty in any relation of life is savagely and scornfully decried as Phariseeism, it is because somebody's withers are wrung. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z He reached far out along the neck, drawing his weight up on the withers, and loosed the head-stall. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z As for the high withers that are always to be desired, the Welsh pony is better off in this respect than the other breeds of Britain, unless it be the pure Highland type. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z The horse had not belied her; like it, she was broad and imposing across the withers. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Five years in Fleet Street withers any girl. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Every year we come to earth and live in some blossom, which we fill with beauty and fragrance; but when it withers we go back to Fairyland until another spring. Violet: A Fairy Story 2011-04-07T02:00:17.290Z Tears came to his eyes as he caressed the Captain's withers frantically. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z He then glided up to the near side of the horse; and caught hold of the withers—as if about to mount. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z A cross; also the withers of a horse or mule. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Grasp my hand, and hold it till it withers. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z I observed that it was particularly high in the cruz, or withers. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z He looked down at his horse's withers so he could not see the start this assertion gave Danny. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z Hanging the “old clo’” across both croup and withers—and there attaching them by strings—he at length climbed into the saddle lately occupied by the king’s messenger, and rode gleefully away. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Instead of only their arms and light equipments, every man of them is now laden with spoil, every horse besides his rider carrying a load, either on withers or croup. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Possibly they had never been so close before; yet it was but sixty years since only the height of Shahzadi's withers separated them. The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia 2011-03-22T02:00:16.873Z How should he answer her?—how warn and caution her without destroying the innocence which, like the sensitive plant, withers at a touch? Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z Danny rubbed his horse's drenched withers and agreed with a nod as Jed walked over to the gate and fumbled with the fastening. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z I’ll find room for all o’ ye—some on the crupper, and the rest on the withers. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Small wonder self-respect soon withers, and that drink, the only path of escape from these horrors, even for a little while, is eagerly welcomed. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z "He withers at his heart, and looks as wan As the pale spectre of a murder'd man." Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z It blossoms in the warm sunlight of his youth; it never withers, even though other flowers take root in the heart. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z He pulled off his hat and beat his pony's withers with it. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z But the heart withers up on that alone. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z And the pride of Achilles withers up before it. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z She withers Sir Nicholas with a parting glance, and then quits the room, Violet in her train, leaving her eldest son entirely puzzled. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Oh, no, it withers for them--in their hands! Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z Strelsa set her lips, not looking at either horse or man on her right, nor even noticing her own mare who was cutting up in sympathy with the outraged hunter at her withers. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z It could be seen in Corral Falso hanging over the withers of my steed, as he stood among the others quietly munching his maize. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Its effect may be produced in front of the withers if the hand be slightly raised; in rear pf the withers if the hand be slightly lowered. Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917 to be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training 2011-02-03T03:00:09.473Z But the sun of liberty is no sooner arisen with burning breath than, lo! smitten by the breeze and the beam, he withers and dies! The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z What is even more threatening to the American future is an aspect of the American idea itself, now lived by people half a world away, even as it withers at home. Currents: Obama Tries to Recapture a Lost Dream 2011-01-28T16:00:44Z A large proportion had been cast by the columns for sore backs and wrung withers, from which they had hardly recovered. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z This is the most fascinating aspect of his recall, because it will tell us whether managerial skill withers like an unused muscle. Reign of King Kenny II as Liverpool go back for their future 2011-01-09T00:09:00Z Hazel slipped tailward from the withers, settled herself with knees clinging high, and whanged him over the rump with the ends of the reins. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z A schoolboy can put up with stripes, and he rather relishes abuse; but sarcasm withers him to the marrow. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z The meat that had been cut away was just the “hump” of the animal; the raised portion of the withers. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z The hunter reined up, his gun dropped back to the withers of his horse, his jaws fell, and for some moments he sat with parted lips, and eyes glaring in wonderment. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z Rick Barber, the Tea Party candidate whose failed run at the GOP nomination in a House race in Alabama produced of this election cycle, best: "Whenever the government grows, individual liberty withers." This is liberty? Tea Party takes on net neutrality 2010-08-17T13:30:00Z "After the media shines a spotlight on it, it just withers and dies," said Polhemus. Hippies, mods, rockers and punks celebrated in youth culture archive 2010-05-02T15:19:00Z And while the economy withers further as spending cuts and tax increases begin to bite, its ability to generate the needed revenues to pay these sums decreases. News Analysis: Looming Over Greece: The Specter of Bankruptcy 2010-04-08T19:49:00Z But whenever we examine that number more closely, it quickly withers in the light of scrutiny. Do You Have "A Number"? 2010-03-16T15:57:00Z The little creature was higher at the croup than at the withers, and entirely without a tail, or with a tail only one inch long, that had more the appearance of a stump. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z Three lengths from the finish a pair of distended nostrils had thrust themselves ahead of the other muzzles to catch the judges’ eyes, and bending over steaming withers had nodded a cerise cap. The Law of Hemlock Mountain On these accounts, a seton passing through the base of the ulcer in poll-evil and fistulous withers is so beneficial. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. As the fruit ripens the spathe withers, and the brilliant red berries are exposed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" But it merely raised its hair on its withers and shook its horns and followed after the canoe. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open When fully grown it bites the stem of the nettle nearly through a few inches from the top, so that the upper part of the plant bends over the withers. Butterflies and Moths (British) The blossom falls and the fruit withers and decays; but here the similitude fails, for, though lost for the present, the season returns, the tree vegetates anew, and the blossom again puts forth. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The ewes measured after they were shorn, from 25½ to 29 inches in height over the withers. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Lower, and around, till it shone in the honest, unsuspecting eyes of The Prince, and glistened on his withers, and found the spot on his shiny coat behind which his heart was beating. The Man from Jericho In an atmosphere purely republican it withers and dies. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Nothing so quickly overturns authority, and withers the fruit of zealous labours, even in virtuous masters, as the appearance of undue favour. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion Boone," demanded the girl, drawing down to a sedate pace, after a brisk gallop that had lathered the flanks and withers of their mounts, "what is it that interests you so in this campaign? The Tempering But so long as no one cares a rap about it, it remains a barren, private delight, and finally withers like a plant in a cellar. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II Up on his withers crouched a hard-faced boy in maroon and silver, who eyed the other horses and riders with cool contempt. The Land of Strong Men To effect this all the varied forms of eloquence were necessary—the rushing torrent of logic that overwhelms—the keen sarcasm that withers and the mild and winning persuasion that loads. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Next moment Mr. Dalroyd lay bound, gagged and helpless across the withers of the Sergeant's horse. Our Admirable Betty A Romance There would be the heart-testing smother of effort before the prize was won, but the future lay open, and he coveted no victory of unwrung withers and unwearied lungs. The Tempering The American bison is distinguished from its European cousin by the following among other features: The hind-quarters are weaker and fall away more suddenly, while the withers are proportionately higher. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The saddle slipped forward; with a motion incredibly swift, as a hat is whipped off in a gust of wind, it whisked over withers and neck and was under the furious feet. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Wherever this belt may happen on any given day to be situated, each side of it the trades prevail, it is dry, the earth is parched, and vegetation withers. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Their bell mare Prue ought to have been old enough to know better, but at the age of twenty-three, with gray hair and bald withers, she was still female. A Man in the Open Love does to women what the sun does to flowers: it colours them, embellishes them, makes them look radiant and beautiful; but when it is too ardent it consumes and withers them. Rambles in Womanland “The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in ManThat wastes and withers there.” Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York If Love withers, Joy is exposed on that side, and it too will fade. The Spirit-Filled Life Loring exulted to feel the bay's withers once more between his knees, and the free countryside about him. Shadows of Flames A Novel I scrambled down ungainly, shoved a pebble in along Sam's withers, and let this gent explain just how to set an 'ard-mouthed 'unter. A Man in the Open Thou wouldst have service done Unreasoning, on the knees, as flowers bend to the Sun, Which withers them at noon, nor ask of his white fires Why they consume and slay. Satan Absolved Spring from our fetters; fasten in the skies; Where blooming Eden withers in our sight: Death gives us more than was in Eden lost. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes When the sunflower is forcibly prevented from gazing at the sun, it withers away. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle He began walking up and down the room, grinning over the "thing or two" with which he would "wring the withers" of his host. Shadows of Flames A Novel The upholding of an arm until the flesh withers, and the limb stiffens, is most revolting. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 He dropped his hand upon her withers, and facing Connor, swept his arm out in a broad gesture of dismissal. The Garden of Eden His hat was off and he leaned restfully against the withers of a saddled horse, a horse that drooped, head to the ground, in some far low level of dejection. Ewing\\'s Lady But, as truly as he was then standing far below Brian Boru's bony withers, never the ghost of a stench had polluted the keen morning air. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel He was still handsome, but in the way that a fine stallion is still handsome when its withers and back begin to sink. Shadows of Flames A Novel I suppose there are few persons here present who could tell the exact meaning of a horse's poll, crest, withers, dock, hamstring, cannon, pastern, coronet, arm, jowl, and muzzle. Lectures on The Science of Language The other grunted, and putting his hand on the withers of Abra, he leaped to the back with the lightness of a strong youth. The Garden of Eden To gaze upon it freezes the blood and withers the brain of a man who understands not its mystery. Red Nails The white banks of the ford framed the picture perfectly—the Mother in blue, on a great white donkey, holding the Child in her arms, and Joseph walking beside, his hand upon the donkey's withers. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Bulgarian writers triumphantly proclaim that "religion as a component of the sociological structure of society for thousands of years gradually withers away at an even faster pace throughout the transition from capitalism to communism." Area Handbook for Bulgaria If you go in for playing or singing, you have to perform before an audience, and the feeling that anybody is listening to me simply withers me! The Head Girl at the Gables Only for a moment; then he turned, and, leaning over the withers of his mount, the mare lengthened, it seemed to Connor, and moved away. The Garden of Eden The motive power is that of pushing, the yoke resting against the slight hump above the animal’s withers. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley Steadily he moved toward the front, past saddle girth and withers. History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 The myrtle-wreath was torn from my brow, the laurel withers even while I grasp it, and I have failed to obtain the cypress crown.' Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna A crack behind him was the first one speaking tardily, and the roan leaped forward, touched into fury by the slug's creasing its withers. The Buttoned Sky And when a hand touched his withers, the stallion merely turned his head and nuzzled the shoulder of Connor inquisitively. The Garden of Eden Down there the southern sun withers and scorches you.' A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 Inch by inch he forged past rump and flank and withers. History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 The first has the legs low, the breast thick, the rump full, the haunches large, a good length of neck to the udder, withers of good height, the skin easy to strip. Toilers of the Sea Never shalt thou be my wife; but thou shalt struggle in my arms, and I will tear the Christian out of thy bleeding heart as it withers in despair! A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) Their high croups and comparatively low withers, their long hindlegs and the shorter forelegs, gave them a waddling motion with the hind quarters apparently huddling the forehand along. The Garden of Eden It rebukes pretension, it scathes deception, it withers arrogance, it exposes emptiness. The History and Records of the Elephant Club Azra is at his saddle, at his withers, at his head, gaining at every stride, slowly, but surely forging to the front. History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 For, though your master's hand was gentle, bondage is pitiable and withers strength and courage. A Captive of the Roman Eagles His Early Rose potatoes there Are much in need of light and air; The turnip withers where it lies, The beet and carrot want to rise. The Brownies: Their Book And when we come to what appear to be his conclusions, they are such as can wring no rationalist’s withers. Rationalism He evidently regards Julia as a sort of modern albatross, that hangs heavily to his neck, and withers beneath her touch. Portia or By Passions Rocked He is climbing forward on the leader’s withers coaxing him on, coaxing him always on. History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 Midst the Lemur's dread, And the ghostly dead, Now withers my life's young blossom. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine With most men the flower they have plucked withers. Studies in Contemporary Biography He studies the physics of velocity in relation to equine locomotion, and with an eye to withers, loins, hocks, and haunches, he segregates his brood mares and his stallions. The Kempton-Wace Letters He saw him spring upon the crippled gray and tear his back and neck and withers until his face and chest were covered with blood. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Looking at them and musing on their lives, I think truly The individual withers, and the world is more and more. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. It is said whene'er she stares At some hapless cow, its milk Dries, its udder withers straight. Atta Troll If you pluck it it withers before you can get it home to put in water and its jewels shrivel to nothing on the way. Old Plymouth Trails She has such a particular malignity in her whisper that it blights like an easterly wind, and withers every reputation it breathes upon. Talkers With Illustrations Our blithesome contemporary, F. P. A., is not disturbed by the steel strike, as he uses a gold pen; and for a like reason our withers are unwrung. The So-called Human Race Lily of the valley: "My heart withers in secret." Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions He is but carving and gilding, and must not turn aside to weep; but he knows that hell is burning on, for all that, and the smoke of it withers his oak-leaves. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) But the abuse of ridicule is not one of the least calamities of literature, when it withers genius, and gibbets whom it ought to enshrine. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The air of the fireside withers out all the fine wildings of the husband’s heart. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) So the multitude goes like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed, So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President Whence the long neck and high withers of the giraffe? Under the Maples The old man did not know the girl, but he knew the Lansing colt and he looked sharply at the steaming withers 88 of Brom Bones before he would give any attention to her question. The Shepherd of the North Melancholy contracts and withers the heart, and renders it unfit to receive the impressions of grace. Letters of Madam Guyon The more liberty perishes and withers from the earth the more we shall plant ourselves and flourish and rule and reign over a nation that we have destroyed and a people whom we have enslaved. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 I jammed the tree of the saddle up on the horse's withers, but the bit held in his jaws. Dwellers in the Hills At that moment, just over his horse's withers, she saw the face of Guss Mildmay who was leaning on her father's arm. Is He Popenjoy? It was so far back from the mare’s withers that the twisted double cinchas were somewhere under her belly, instead of her girth. The Twins of Suffering Creek David said, the life of man upon the earth is as grass, which groweth up in the morning, and withers in the evening. Letters of Madam Guyon Buck leant over his horse’s withers as the laboring creature clawed tenaciously up the face of the rugged hill. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills I arose and put the bridle rein over El Mahdi's head while I stood, my right hand reaching up on his high withers. Dwellers in the Hills It does not grow, but soon withers and falls away. Rural Life and the Rural School It stands five and a half to six and a half feet at the withers and weighs eight hundred to one thousand pounds. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 It flourishes in the morning of the spiritual life, but no sooner does the sun of righteousness arise in his warmth, than this life withers and is cut down. Letters of Madam Guyon The result is that women grow up with feet the same size as when they were children, and the flesh withers away on the feet and below the knees. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions A moment I held them back at the gateway of the eyepits, then they gushed through, and I struck the False Prophet over his iron grey withers, and we passed in a gallop. Dwellers in the Hills While I was in Rangoon I tried a number of cases of over-driving, of using ponies with sore withers and the like. The Soul of a People And Tresler felt himself sliding, saddle and all, over her withers! The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana They recall primitive feelings of fear before the great unknown, they tower above the human form with a colossal imperturbability which withers our importance and confuses our standards of value. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Gratitude may wreath a chaplet of laurel, but trust me, Christine, it withers unless consecrated by beauty. She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa A worn, dirty leather scabbard, bursting at the seams, slanted up past the withers of one brute, and out of its mouth projected the butt of a rifle. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Hazy in the green-and-purple distance could be glimpsed the yellow withers of the western range. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China A drought in its early stages withers it on the ground; and an inundation, when nearly ripe, is equally destructive. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton Then with a quickness which neither his weight nor his bulk foretold, he sprang towards the picador, who planted a lance in his withers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Sandy and Sam sat slightly forward, loose-seated, thigh-muscles and knees feeling the withers rather than pressing them, balancing their own limber bodies to every movement of the flying ponies. Rimrock Trail Put your hands well down on his withers and let him come.’ A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid God's love hath in us wealth unheaped Only by giving it is reaped; The body withers, and the mind Is pent up by a selfish rind. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul If it is tight it pulls the roller on to the rise of the withers. Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding And now every horse which goes to the Front can be certain of having its own withers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 I know no better than the snake knows when his skin withers and bloats. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Then re-commence, gradually moving it backwards until it rests upon his withers, by degrees playing louder and louder, pausing always when he seems alarmed, to let him look at it and smell, if needful. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid A man under the shadow of a theory may think himself safe, whilst his gourd is only the gourd of Jonah, a thing that withers under the heat of the sun. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election He had sprained ankles, wrung withers, been overtrained, had contracted every known disease in addition to manifesting a yellow streak. Malcolm Sage, Detective The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, the man he dies. Highways and Byways in Surrey The girl kept her seat, partly by balancing, but as much by holding on to the high bony withers of the horse, that rose above his shoulders like the hump of a dromedary. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The pupil horseman should remember to drop his hands as low as he can on each side the withers, without stooping, when a horse becomes restive, plunging or attempting to run away. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid A Moor will not trouble to prevent his beasts having sore backs and fistulated withers and raw hindquarters, any more than he sees that his children are warmly clad and suitably fed. In the Tail of the Peacock The neck is short, describing a curvature nearly equal both above and below; the withers high and arched; the rump low. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. Perhaps it is not altogether unwholesome that our national withers don't entirely escape wringing. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914 At intervals a hideous face peeping over the withers of a horse, offered a tempting target. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Now, I am enlisted, not only in the cause of Erin, but pledged to do what I can for any race that withers like yours under the rule of the slave-master. The Art of Disappearing Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The withers and shoulders of the Gyall rise higher in proportion than those of Buffalo or Cow, and its tail is small and short, seldom falling lower than the bend in the ham. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. My friend's "You Socialist chaps" rather wrang my withers; its sting not being lessened at all by my knowledge of its justice. The Message An arm over the withers, a leg above the croup, are all of the riders we can see. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness He bent down and caught Constans by the shoulders, turning him around and forcing him backward until his head rested against the blood-bay's withers. The Doomsman They were superb oxen with long horns, curved like the head-dress of Isis, with high withers, deep dewlaps, clean, muscular limbs; the brand of the estate, stamped with a red-hot iron, showed upon their flanks. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Height from the hoof to the withers 5 11-3/4 Length from nose to end of tail 11 11-3/4 The form of the Gaur is not so lengthened as that of the Arna. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. Silently all droops, all withers, all is poured back into the earth that it may recreate; all sleeps while the busy architects of day and night ply their silent work elsewhere. The World I Live In A snig of the red blade severed the thong; and the Indian’s body sliding down from the withers of the horse, fell with a dull dead sound upon the turf. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness "The individual withers," but "the world is more and more." To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Their high withers, their broad dewlaps, their clean limbs, their small hoofs, shining like agate, their tails with the tuft carefully combed, showed that they were thorough-bred and that hard field-work had never deformed them. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Their height, at the withers, was about ten hands and a half. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. Because it withers and dies and lies covered with snow during the winter, is that any reason why I should not plow and manure and plant my garden when spring comes again? Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine I saw her struggling in his grasp, I saw him dragging her over the ground, and raising her to the withers of his steed. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The weakly blossom, warm in summer bower, Some tints of transient beauty may disclose; But ah, it withers in the chilling hour. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems If a leaf pines and withers in regret that it is not a flower, it not only does not become a flower, but it fails of being a good leaf. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life I gather it—it withers on my breast; The heart’s-ease dies when it is laid on mine; Methinks there is no shape by Joy possess’d, Would better fare than thou, upon that shrine. Spare Hours There was a sudden rush behind them—and Old Billee Dobb, hat fanning his pony's withers, hair streaming in the wind, streaked to the front! The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers In both, the horse appeared to have his will: the reins rested loosely upon his withers; while his rider seemed wrapped in a silent abstraction. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Then I made him lay down and did the same thing myself, using his withers and mane for a pillow. Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events It withers him, as if he were a tree that had been stricken by lightning. Jewish Children The young girl made no reply, but leaned her head against the withers of the horse at her side and looked down at her foot to hide her tears. The Wind Before the Dawn The stained withers of the animals they rode told of long, steady travel. Crooked Trails and Straight Seed which falls into such soil springs up most quickly because warmed by the underlying rock; but as the roots cannot strike downward, the grain soon withers beneath the scorching sun. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition I whipped my horse and leaned my breast on the horse's withers, and told Vallis to whip his horse, that they were Indians. Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788 My good dyspeptic, this will never do; Your weary withers must be sadly wrung! Modern British Poetry I ingenuously asked, 'what are the withers, anyhow?' More Trivia I came, and Man sat caverned with the brute; I nursed him and he rose into a god; I leave him and he withers with the fruit Of ages on the ground his splendour trod. The Masque of the Elements Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.—Dr. Pearls of Thought The tallest dog at Igloolik stood two feet one inch from the ground, measured at the withers; the average height was about two inches less than this. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage Besides, the actual height of the withers above the roof of the chest, has no fixed relation to the depth of the chest. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. When the seed ripens, its little stem withers away, so that the seed lies loose in the pod. The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young In the presence of such people, that which is fresh, beautiful, and holy withers, as a cluster of dewy wild flowers is parched and killed by the hot, sterile breath of a furnace. How to Cook Husbands Around an ancient pedigree There is a halo fair to see, With "unwrung withers" we afford Our salutation to milord, As due unto his ancient house, Albeit his lordship be a chouse. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) He spurs his horse, and the frantic swish of his crop lays a deep weal on the animal's withers. When the Birds Begin to Sing For the benefit of inexperienced riders, I must not omit to mention that the measurement of horses is taken from the highest point of the withers to the ground. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Set them side by side in moist earth and notice which withers. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study She bent forward over the horse's withers, and stretched upward, as if to pull him higher by her buoyancy. A Tar-Heel Baron It withers the moment it is exposed to practical trial, because Democracy cannot rise above the level of the human material of which its voters are made. Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion Eleanor is about to demur, when she catches Mr. Quinton's expression, and his look withers the words on her tongue, and forces them back. When the Birds Begin to Sing A stout numdah of this kind can be used with a high withered animal, and a thin one with a horse which has thick withers. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. If I cover some poor girl with the leprosy of some imputed crime and she withers away like a blighted flower and afterward I get forgiveness, how does that help her? God's Plan with Men If it is androgynous, the staminate part drops off, or withers. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 These winds, coming from the great American desert, are almost wholly devoid of moisture, and their aridity is often such that vegetation withers before them as at the touch of fire. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. In one, a root dropped down and rested on the back, as a centaur who turns might rest his hand on his withers. Edge of the Jungle Also, the vulnerable side of the back and withers of an animal which carries a side-saddle, is the one which is opposite to that on which the leaping-head is fixed. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Then he withers beneath the stony stare of the British mother, who is reading her "lessons" in the corner. Stray Studies from England and Italy The necessity of providing change for her will probably take us across the water very early in the autumn; and this again unsettles home schemes here, and withers many kinds of fern. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Folded in the slicker that was strapped to the cantle of his saddle was food; he carried his rifle in the saddle sheath, and a water-bag bulged above the horse’s withers. 'Drag' Harlan The jacket thus rested over the animal's mane, with the collar near its withers, and the peak or skirt upon the small of its neck. Popular Adventure Tales The pommel is made up of a gullet plate, which is a steel arch that goes over the withers, and its coverings. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. He succeeded in wrenching the pony’s head toward him and crowding her withers against the clay bank, so that she could not roll. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Many a bud is rudely hastened into blossom by impatient fingers, and withers from the shock; it must not be so now. Six Girls A Home Story But life is short; I feel it every day; and if you do not attend to the plant, it soon withers and dies.” The Goose Man The white rose withers on every bough, And the red rose rears its thorn; But many a maid our strife shall rue, And the babe that is yet unborn. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Love warms where Death withers, Death blights where Love blooms; Death sits by our cradles, Love stands by our tombs! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Then, as my female persecutress alighted on the floor of the compartment in the limp condition of a collapse, I stepped across to my original seat, and endeavoured to look as if with withers unwrung. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. Over the withers of the animal destined for the ex-student of theology rose a long lance, strapped to the stirrup and the pummel of the saddle. The Tiger Hunter One may scheme and contrive until all ambition withers and hope fades, but no one will ever find a satisfactory substitute for hard work. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies In the first place, on Christianity—'on the passionate acceptance of an exquisite fairy tale,' said the dreaming spectator to himself, 'which at the first honest challenge of the critical sense withers in our grasp! Robert Elsmere Now like a storm the cloth-yard-long arrows sped by the strong bows of Spanish yew strike the French horses, stinging them like serpents through the withers. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Old Pegleg came cantering along with his rifle balanced on the sliding withers of his mare-mule, for he rode without a saddle. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights She had never met his glance yet: she withered away before it as a mouse withers and shrinks and falls to its den before a cat's huge glare. Mary, Mary He notes the germination of the plant seed and its early growth, step by step approaching a stage of maturity; it blossoms, produces seed, and if it is an annual plant, withers and dies. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male Cut off the sunbeam from the sun and it dies, and the house is dark; cut off the life from the root and it withers, and the creature shrivels. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Their courage shall fail and their spirit shall wither at the sight of me, even as the grass withers and shrivels at the breath of fire. Through Veld and Forest An African Story You could see the slide of the horse's withers and watch the play of the naked Indian's arm muscles. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare When this Cluster is taken away, the Plant withers, or they cut it down at the Root; but for one Trunk lost, the Root sends forth five or six more. The Natural History of Chocolate Being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-Tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Vertues of its Fruit True Religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin It withers away to nothing before the caustic verdict of modern science and logic. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity It is a superficial soil which has no depth of earth, and so with joy it receives the word; but the seed has no depth of earth and quickly withers away. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion The imagination is oppressed with a sense of utter desolation that withers every mental effort. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 Swish! came the whip down on the withers of the late frisky runaway, and Gabe went helter-skelter down the road, headed for his next stopping place. Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School We have outgrown the charming fancy of the Greeks that every tree has its Dryad that lives in it, animates it, and dies when the tree withers. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Small wonder that their withers were fearfully wrung, and their wails piteous. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War The hand or muscle disused withers in power. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion Hoisting her up to his horse’s withers, and with a stern threat and a shake, telling her to stay there, he springs upon the saddle behind her. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco |
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