| 单词 | shrivelled |
| 例句 | When taken out of the stocks his skin was cold and shrivelled; there was no perceptible pulsation in the temporal or radial arteries, and he complained of severe cephalgia ... Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so crumpled and wizened, so shrunken and shrivelled, it looked as though it had been pickled in vinegar. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The sullen shrivelled leaves of a past year hung on them, grating and rattling in the sad airs, but their maggot-ridden buds were only just opening. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace, tight-lipped, implacable, disapproving. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I tell him I have always assumed my morning-after mood was a result of my brain having shrivelled like a raisin through alcohol-induced dehydration. ‘Hangxiety’: why alcohol gives you a hangover and anxiety 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Enev also has a strong lyrical streak, which the poet Kassabova renders beautifully: "Suddenly her face shrivelled up and darkened like burning paper." Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z Beyond capturing the cyclical transformations of season—verdant kudzu shrivelled brown, bare trees turned fruitful—the photographs highlight the creeping passage of time. “I’m Very Much in Love with Where I’m From”: William Christenberry’s American South 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z And then she's over, all her burning lifeis shrivelled, berries dryas clotted blood, her leaves like knives.So clear her all away,her all away. Carols for Christmas 2010-12-18T00:07:31Z Now they jolted into life, shrivelled and screaming in the darkness of my arms, shoulders and back, roaring to let them return to 30 years of unbroken sleep. Body transformation: from ‘dad bod to rad bod’ in just seven weeks 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z On another, it's compelling to watch two people with absolutely nothing in common, manfully chewing shrivelled beef in a deathly silence. Have You Been Watching ? Dinner Date? 2011-07-28T13:36:00Z In the play, they used a puppet of a dead child, blackened, shrivelled, terrible. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z The detritus of old political battles is represented by images of shrivelled campaign materials, faded rosettes and unblown balloons. Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard; The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – review 2013-03-25T11:00:01Z When we arrived at the house, Ah-Li was laying out shrivelled, salted vegetables to dry in the sun. China's barbaric one-child policy 2013-05-06T06:00:01Z Put the wonton bowl into the wok, cover with a lid and steam for 6-8 minutes, until the wontons have shrivelled slightly and are cooked through. 20 best Chinese recipes: part 3 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Campbell got a lot of mileage out of the idea of a bath with a door in it for the elderly and the ridiculous shrivelled wrinkliness of those two or three generations above the audience. The innocence of childish humour 2013-03-16T07:45:01Z Good and evil were a joke in comparison with a shrivelled leg. Mum and Dad: the prism through which we see our siblings 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z In the corner of one stall, we see what looks like a saucepan lid full of shrivelled, straw-coloured fruit bats. Ghana's batmen hunting for pandemic clues 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z There are pockets of support for Boris Johnson on the Conservative benches, but they have rapidly shrivelled. Tories turning against angry version of Boris Johnson 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Top tip for reviving carrots: put them in a glass of water in the fridge until they are less shrivelled; they’re not perfect but they’ll be usable again. How to save £60 a month on your food shop 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Russia and China signed a "no limits" partnership last February shortly before Russian forces invaded Ukraine, and their economic links have boomed as Moscow's connections with the West have shrivelled. NATO has seen signs China is considering sending arms to Russia - Stoltenberg 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Their economic links have boomed as Russia's connections with the West have shrivelled. Russia's Lavrov hails Moscow-Beijing ties in face of U.S. 'provocations' 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The drought has laid waste to the Somali countryside, leaving crops shrivelled and the scrublands dotted with the corpses of emaciated livestock. Somalia not at famine levels between October and December - U.N. agencies, aid groups 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z It is a vote he would lose, and badly, and it might expose just how shrivelled that parliamentary loyalty to him now is. Tories turning against angry version of Boris Johnson 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Following consecutive seasons of poor rains, rivers and water pans have dried up and grasslands have shrivelled up in the game reserves. Kenya's famous matriarch elephant dies 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Exports - a key source of revenue for Koblevo and other big wineries - have shrivelled due to the blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports. 'Wine for victory': Ukraine's wineries toil under Russian rockets 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z But a flower that worships the sun also needs the blessing of rain - and there is none, leading to a mass of shrivelled crops producing neither seeds nor oil. Spain's olive oil producers devastated by worst ever drought 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Following consecutive seasons of poor rains, rivers and water pans have dried up and grasslands have shrivelled in the game reserves. Climate change killing elephants, says Kenya 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The healthy plant has many plump grains, the other one has just a couple of shrivelled ones. Satellites give clues about the coming global harvest 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z This year's figure was the slowest for the retailer, showing how consumer appetite in the world's second largest economy has been shrivelled by lockdowns to halt the Omicron variant of coronavirus and slowing economic conditions. China's JD.com posts slowest growth ever in '618' shopping event 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Delays in charting Didi's future could leave some investors without an exit option on its shares, whose value has already shrivelled. China's Didi faces rocky path to growth after winning U.S. delisting nod 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Stuart said his three older kidneys would now have "shrivelled up like a peanut". 'I was shocked to find out I now have four kidneys' 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z That question is more pertinent than ever at the Beijing Games, because African representation has shrivelled since a record eight African nations, fielding twice as many athletes as in Beijing, competed in 2018. After blow of Beijing, Olympians ask: What about Africa? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z By the time they are ready for export, the specimens are hard and shrivelled; their weight reduced by a factor of 30. Sea-cucumber divers off Liberia risk danger to feed a hunger in China 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Financial support for trade, one of the central tenets of the agreement, has since shrivelled, hitting Iran’s economy hard. Exclusive: European allies pushed back when Trump sanctioned Iran’s banks 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z His lawyer said he was "shrivelled by guilt and remorse". Killed in 2019: Who has been brought to justice? 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Several fingers and his thumbs are “all shrivelled up” as result of medication given to keep him alive. Man given 'almost zero chance' of Covid-19 survival due to return home 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z However, mummification, burial and a long stretch of time had taken their toll: the tongue was shrivelled and the soft palate was missing – with the team having to virtually fill in the latter. Talk like an Egyptian: mummy's voice heard 3,000 years after death 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z His defence counsel said Mr Page was “shrivelled by guilt and remorse.” Homicide level down for first time in five years 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Thinking of that little white kitten clinging on for dear life with its tiny claws, then shrivelled up and dead. Abandoning a Cat 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z When the mermaid was presented to Barnum, he was immediately taken with the shrivelled creature. What P. T. Barnum Understood About America 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Stearns’s plan, in other words, is to strip bare the crisis in male identity—that old favorite—and to leave any guys in the audience shrivelled and shamed. “The Farewell” Mixes Mourning and Revelry 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z “Like I was when we met, I mean. Not now when I’m shrivelled up like a monkey.” “The Escape” 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z "Later, it seems that the leaves become shrivelled, almost leathery in texture. Eventually, the tree will die." Mystery disease killing beech trees 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The last of the olives, shrivelled in their brine. “What Can You Do with a General” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Each year, we found that the toe of the glacier had shrivelled further. When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Now there were only shrivelled shrubs, bare earth, and countless potholes. Zimbabwe's 'enemy of the people' returns home 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The scorching weeks of the summer of 2018 left crops shrivelled and gardens scorched. 'Millennia of human activity': heatwave reveals lost UK archaeological sites 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But hope hasn't completely shrivelled in the intense heat of Helmand. Why are more troops going to Afghanistan? 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The sugar industry, once the Caribbean country’s main source of livelihood, has shrivelled, leaving Barbados almost entirely dependent on tourism. The opposition wins every seat in the Barbados Parliament 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z GDP shrivelled by a quarter in 2010-13 and then stagnated for three more years. A critical task for the Greek economy enters a new phase 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z So in somewhat shrivelled form do the stadiums in Kaliningrad and Rostov. Russia uncovered: writers on the World Cup host nation 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Australia used to offer retiring workers incentives to purchase annuities; when it stopped these in 2007, the annuities market shrivelled away. The life-insurance industry is in need of new vigour 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Their wages shrivelled by inflation post-World War One, police officers in the Massachusetts city got organised and in 1919 downed their truncheons. The world's strangest strikes 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Bluntly, it is an explicit acknowledgement of her fragility; her authority and majority shrivelled. Jeremy Corbyn urges Theresa May: Give us early election - BBC News 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z When Justice Douglas visited the area in 1959, the year of the spraying, he was shocked to see the shrivelled and dying willows—the “vast, incredible damage.” Silent Spring—I 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The first was a drought across much of east and southern Africa that shrivelled crops, driving up food prices and slashing farmers’ incomes. The return of the resource curse 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Large swaths of vegetation appeared blackened and shrivelled, revealing miles of eerily linear markings, forming grids—the residual imprint of seismic explosives that geologists had detonated in search of oil. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z There’s also fruit – oranges – they look pretty bad because they’re kind of shrivelled up, but they smell amazing. Living in space puts Earth in a new light: 'I'd never seen that shade of blue before' 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Those beyond this range, or too far from the interstate, shrivelled.” The reasons for Trump were also the reasons for Brexit | John Harris 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z For this they had to be appealing before they were 30 and their eggs shrivelled up. The backlash against feminism has hit a new low with Donald Trump | Suzanne Moore 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Swaying undecided voters, a pool that has shrivelled to around 6% of the total, is a lesser task. Mr Johnson and Dr Stein 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Pull aside the screen, argues Mr Knaus, and the scary Mr Orban will be revealed as a shrivelled demagogue with nothing to say. The wizard of Budapest 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It described a couple whose corpses were found arm in arm, and a baby with blue lips and shrivelled feet. Welcome to the LOLhouse: how the Berlin Biennale became a slick, sarcastic joke 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The presence of a larger fraction of shrivelled particles at 28 °C could be due to the exposure of particles to high osmolality during purification. Structure of the thermally stable Zika virus : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z They just earned three Pinocchios rather than the full four, which means the Post found a shrivelled kernel of veracity wrapped inside the thick layers of fraud, distortion and deception. Post-truth politicians such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are no joke | Jonathan Freedland 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z As the volume of television programming has ballooned and the audience for individual shows has shrivelled, the creators of comedies have been freed from the obligation to appeal to most of the country. The Brutal Romantic Behind “Catastrophe” 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The problem, say protesters, is that the jobs have become a form of serfdom: grim conditions – long hours, frenetic pace, management intimidation – and shrivelled wages. Juárez: factory workers are protesting for their rights with an ‘Occupy-style’ sit-in 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z This is no shrivelled finger on a cushion. St Valentine's finger beckons lovers to Coventry - BBC News 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z A fruit bowl has three shrivelled pears in it. Adele: ‘I can finally reach out a hand to my ex. Let him know I’m over it’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z He considered the question while gazing at the black, shrivelled lump of carbon. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z But the value of this as collateral has shrivelled as the oil price has fallen, making the redeterminations more than a mere formality. Debt and alive 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z When mice - like humans - age, the neurons end up looking like tired, shrivelled peanuts. Michael Mosley: Why I consumed my own blood 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Moreover, grand ideas of peace once dreamt up by statesmen have shrivelled into a “nasty mechanism”. Gaza: One War, One Family. Five Children, Four Dead Lending in the euro zone shrivelled further in October while price inflation, a key yardstick of economic health, is very low. ECB's Draghi warns countries to reform as clouds gather over euro zone 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Government-approval ratings duly edged up while support for Ms Silva shrivelled. Restarting the rollercoaster 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z In recent weeks the pro-Russian rebels have suffered a series of heavy defeats, losing large chunks of territory, with their empire shrivelled to the two major eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. 280-truck Russian aid convoy set to reach Ukraine border within hours 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Which perhaps explains the birthday party for a shrivelled up piece of pork. What happens if you eat 112 year-old ham? 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z "They are all shrivelled and dry - there's nothing inside." Drought hits Brazil's coffee industry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z If it is close, even a shrivelled handful of Lib Dem MPs will enable him to again wield that brief delicious moment of glory, as the man who chooses the man who rules the nation. Nick Clegg is paying the price for being king of compromise 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Gene therapy delivered to the inner ear can help shrivelled auditory nerves to regrow — and in turn, improve bionic ear technology, researchers report today in . Bionic Ears Boosted by Gene Therapy and Regrown Nerves 2014-04-23T21:00:00Z "I'm pretty shrivelled up but I'm not all the way rotten yet." Clock ticking down on Miller time 2014-01-22T17:00:13Z Trees on the estate show the hallmarks of the disease in the black, shrivelled leaves hanging from the branches of diminutive seedlings and the magnificent ash trees that tower above. Can our woods be saved by clever planting? 2013-10-25T01:19:44Z The housing market collapsed, unemployment rose, tax receipts shrivelled and the government's budget deficit went through the roof. Britain and the euro: what if we'd joined? 2013-06-02T13:39:28Z No wonder Murdoch's new chief executive, Robert Thomson, pledges "relentless cost-cutting" across the shrivelled empire. Rupert Murdoch is now an old man on a lonely throne at News Corp 2013-06-02T08:00:12Z The men stood around like deflated balloons, shrivelled and diminished somehow. Mo Yan: “Bull.” 2012-11-19T05:00:00Z I've always thought of nans as little, shrivelled old women, hunched over with a stick or sat in a rocking chair knitting. Celebrity grandparents and grandchildren 2012-11-16T22:59:00Z His holdings in "old economy" businesses survived as internet stocks shrivelled. Neil Woodford, Invesco Perpetual's kingmaker 2012-10-12T18:13:20Z The average age of priests and nuns continues to grow alarmingly as the number of new vocations has shrivelled in formerly strongly Catholic countries of Europe. The unfinished business of Vatican II 2012-10-12T12:27:19Z Crops shrivelled and roads and railway lines buckled in the heat. US heatwave leaves dozens dead 2012-07-08T09:01:50Z When Tim pulled back the bolt that did the door, in marched a little bit of a shrivelled, weather-beaten creature, about two feet and a half high. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z But third party's standing now shrivelled to its lowest level in 15 years, since the time when Tony Blair's all-conquering new government briefly attracted support of 60%. Greece heading out of euro, say UK voters 2012-05-21T17:05:01Z There was a little shrivelled old man who sat behind, and had, as yet, said nothing. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z The head-quarter camp had shrivelled in dimensions from twenty tents down to four; and outside of them, soon after daybreak, the whole staff might be seen engaged in the various processes of washing and dressing. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Berry crowned with the shrivelled remains of the calyx, the surface of the numerous seeds swelling into a gelatinous outer coat investing a crustaceous one. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z From her deeply-wrinkled forehead issued forth a hooked beak, dividing two shrivelled cheeks. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z His flesh was shrivelled and thin, and his complexion was of a yellowish white, resembling somewhat the color of parchment. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z I thought that he would kill Amos with a single blow; for the one was so big and bony, and the other so frail and shrivelled up. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z As the hard, stiff, corded muscle shrivelled, so shrivelled his obdurate, persistent self-confidence. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Count Platen is a little, shrivelled, wheezing old man, with gold spectacles, yet not more than five-and-thirty! Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z He was over eighty now, bent, dried up, shrivelled with age. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z It is not like a flower that has blown, and bloomed, and withered, but one that with a worm in its heart has shrunk, and shrivelled, and faded. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z In Italy art had shrivelled with the last of the Bolognese school. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z At the head of the party marched a little shrivelled man, whose scarlet coat was trimmed with gold. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z The shrivelled leaves are blown from the trees, and soon the gusts are whistling and howling amid gray, naked twigs and mossy branches. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Her father was limp and pale, like something long buried from the light; and Mr. Topes was all dry and shrivelled; and Mrs. Topes looked more than ever like something worked by clockwork. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z The owner of the house, a man toothless and shrivelled, but endowed with that aspect and air of juvenility that seems the heritage of age in Majorca, cordially invited us in. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Still, Murchison has seen them shrivelled and pale or bluish for some time after convalescence. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z He was holding his long, shrivelled hands to the fire, and the flames almost shone through them; they trembled incessantly. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z Stiff and stark, with haggard cheek and shrivelled lip, he lies40 among the snow-drifts; till, with tooth and claw, the famished wildcat strives in vain to pierce the frigid marble of his limbs. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z And a small, shrivelled old man clambering about the scaffolding, agile and quick like one of those whiskered little monkeys at the Zoo, painting away, painting away.... Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Her companion was a shrivelled little woman, whose gums were toothless and whose cheeks bore the pallor of enforced seclusion, but whose alert expression betokened generations of watchful patience. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z In other cases the tongue is dry, brown, and shrivelled, or covered with a tenacious, viscid secretion which renders it difficult to protrude it. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Edith ran to meet him, and put her warm fingers into his cool, shrivelled hand. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Few people knew that the title represented gallant and youthful soldiering in Rebellion days before he shrivelled and dried up in the musty little shop. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z That it is a most powerful astringent we well know; and the hands of the Chinese who are employed in its preparation are shrivelled, and, to all appearance, burned with caustic. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Then, unwrapping the bundle of palm leaves, he displayed a shrivelled hand, and said— "This is my gift to Lokolobolo." Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z The integuments of the limbs are shrivelled and damp, and look as if they had been macerated in water; and if a fold of the skin is pinched up it subsides very slowly indeed. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z As she removed an already withered wild-rose from among its companions, a solitary tear fell upon its shrivelled petals. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z "He's a shrivelled little man with a big yellow head, sir," replied Blair. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z Then Michael took from his bosom the magic glass and looked through it, and saw no lovely child, but the same yellow hag with shrivelled face and evil eyes. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z His cheeks became loose and horrible; his lips shrivelled up above his teeth. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The blood was fluid, of the color and appearance of port-wine lees; under the microscope the corpuscles were shrivelled and crenated, and there was a space apparent between them as they were arranged in rouleaux. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z An oaken stake, driven through his body, taking root, grew into a tree, and threw a singular shrivelled branch, the only one it ever produced, across the road. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-20T03:00:18.340Z Trevalga studied her with amazement; he felt withered, shrivelled up, in body and soul, beside her magnificent acceptance of the world; she vitalised him, drew him away from himself; and he feared her. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z Flies were born with a hodgepodge of physical deformities, such as shrunken or square eyes, shrivelled wings and crooked legs. Prions and chaperones: Outside the fold 2012-02-15T18:21:01.083Z "My daughter, gentlemen," said the Weasel, tenderly; bending, he touched her fingers with his shrivelled lips, smiling to himself. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z When the disease has been very much prolonged the exudation becomes tough, adherent, and shrivelled. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The Grand Convention fell a victim to its leaders, and from a mighty engine of the national will shrivelled into an antic posturing. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z But as her soul became more shrivelled she pointedly avoided even the mention of Terence's name, and showed general signs of a peevish querulousness, which was alien to her strong character. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z And all the joy which had been in her heart shrivelled up and cowered. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Mount shyly touched the hand that Silver Heels held out; Cade Renard took the fingers, and, bending above them with a flicker of his aged gallantly, pressed them with his shrivelled lips. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z They had both shrivelled away, and the Marquis de Gange smarted as if he had been tarred and feathered. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Black shrivelled, charred fragments Fall into the scarlet torrent: Huge tresses of darkness sweep over my face, Leaving me choking. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z Come what might, with his own shrivelled arm, since he had no son, would he wipe out this stain, or be dishonoured for aye in the noble annals of Japan. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Sarah put her shrivelled old arm on his in solemnity, as she answered it. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z Ghosts fade from the brain and the shrivelled deities fall palsied from their thrones. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z From his white and shrivelled lips issued no shrieks of terror. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Her form was bent almost double, and the skin hung about her hands and arms like black and shrivelled parchment. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z That germ was quite dead now, shrivelled and black. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z In amazement he examined it, and found that while it had charred or shrivelled like leather, it had not softened168 at all. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z "Come hither, my Charmides, and drink with me!" called his guide, as he bought a double cupful of red liquor from a little, shrivelled man with newly filled pig-skin. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Indeed, he seemed to have diminished in stature and to have shrivelled in breadth; and his eyes were red, as though he had lately wept. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The flesh had shrivelled off his bones, his face was thin and peaked, and plainly his days were numbered. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z It is only the sunshine of God's presence that can mellow us thoroughly, and if people wilfully turn away from that they are bound to become shrivelled and sour. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z That was when I had drawn him into the circle of my professional acquaintances which somehow shrivelled at his touch like spiders in the heat. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z I opened the sarcophagus, and, unwrapping the voluminous bandages, found the mystic tome lying among spices and amulets on the shrivelled breast. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z With shrivelled hands he flung his seed, Nor ever turned to look behind; Of sight or sound he took no heed; It seemed he was both deaf and blind. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z "His skin was shrivelled and yellow," declares one of the girls* who attended Crawford's school. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z His structure was loose and leathery; his body was shrunk and shrivelled; he had dark skin, dark hair, and looked woe-struck. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z The eyes had shrivelled up into the skull, and were by no means gleaming and crystal-like as is alleged of those found in Indian graves, and offered for sale to strangers. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z And, so saying, he shook her hard and shrivelled hand. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Its funny azure blossoms give a merry, shrivelled wink, And lifting up the leaves display great drops of purple ink. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z We were continually beset by shrivelled, cadaverous beggars; they posted themselves at every corner, and besought us, by the Blessed Virgin, to give them alms. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z The whole of this side of the face, from forehead to chin, was a puckered drawn mass of blackened shrivelled skin, distorted into grotesque seams and furrows. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z With steadfast gaze to scan my Master's face, My eyes have no content: So many hardships may a woman's shrivelled heart Endure in such a joyful season! Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z He had only to see it; its leaves shrivelled, the green colour, before so lustrous, now of a yellow transparency. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z Young men were stunted and shrivelled with labour and want, and old men were gaunt and twisted with exposure, overwork, and rheumatism. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z There she lay, crouched on a bit of horse’s skin, so withered, shrivelled and contracted, that it seemed as if a bushel-basket might have covered her, bed and all. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z But first, before the sea went entirely dry, its place was taken by the lakes and swamps into which it shrivelled up. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z While he slept, skin and little legs shrivelled up and fell away from him, and a new skin, hard and thick and scaly, took their place. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z And with his hands full of clay, he came out from the farm-yard, and remained standing before the oblong patch of shrivelled wheat. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z The ray fell on his hand as he raised it to fire, the hand shrivelled to bone before he could pull the trigger. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z The hand was fresh, the others only so-so and shrivelled. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z He shrivelled before the fire of defeat, and sank hopelessly into the ashes of surrender. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z They fell on the ground and shrivelled up. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The gnome-men were old and shrivelled, with faces like roots of trees; all wore silver coats and red caps. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z Then their clothing shrivelled up into tinder, and all three dropped together in an indistinguishable heap of crumbling bones. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z The place is now for a long time carefully avoided, till he is quite shrivelled, whereupon his bones are taken away and put in a tree. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The summer here, with that deadly mist that rises from the Campagna, must be fatal, and the two monks we saw looked yellow and shrivelled with fever. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z Sad at heart walked Eros, and all along his path the flowers now lay shrivelled. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z When the storm had cleared, and the morning sun shone out, those who found courage to visit the spot 60beheld the forms of Katel and her lover Sala�n lying dead upon the shrivelled turf. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z Once he got the hearth-rug, and, stuffing it up the grate, deliberately set it on fire, and remained in the room in spite of the stench until it had smouldered and shrivelled away into uselessness. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z The child looked like a monster in a magic glass, shrivelled up, yellow skinned, with sunken but staring eyes, and wrinkled, though scarcely yet two years of age. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:24.180Z Her criss-crossed wrinkled face seemed to roll up with that grin, showing shrivelled toothless gums. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z She looked about: in the wind, which was blowing, her wings whirled away, shrivelled up, whirled away like dry leaves. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Dried and shrivelled horse-chestnut leaves are still able to show various stages in this marvellous retreat of the cambium. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The few heads that had formed were small, the grains shrivelled. Complaints department 2011-10-12T17:20:51.840Z Worn and troubled with these thoughts, Smetse stopped singing and lost his fat, shrivelled visibly, became melancholy and moody, and in his smithy said never a word, except to give a necessary order. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z In person he was small and rather shrivelled looking—old for his age unquestionably. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z The shadows shrivelled up into the corners and disappeared. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z Farquhar approached it, and was almost frightened out of his wits by seeing a tiny shrivelled face crowned by a red pirnie, looking over the edge of the sporran. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z Much of their imagination had shrivelled with their eyes, and they had made for themselves new imaginations with their ever more sensitive ears and fingertips. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z His thin, shrivelled form was scarce distinguishable in the gloom, only his old face, with large bottle-nose, and his pale, watery eyes appeared grotesque and quaint in the yellowish light of his lanthorn. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z This death-bed was properly a cradle, and the poor dwarf lay inside with his yellow shrivelled old face. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z I am scattered like The hot shrivelled seeds. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z He was so shrivelled with age that he looked just like a mummy. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z Her dress was a blue woollen skirt, and a short loose gown; and her hard shrivelled hands bore witness to much unfeminine labor. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z She was evidently not very strong, for the old watchman, shrivelled and shrunken though he was, had already mastered her. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z The long parlors were seldom opened except to be cleaned and aired, and Miss Campbell, now a somewhat shrivelled pink and white little lady of fifty-five, interested herself only in the charities of West Haven. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z The shrivelled seeds Are spilt on the path. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z On the other hand, however, they enjoy the cool refreshing shade of the tree foliage, which prevents them from being shrivelled up. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z Jack could have shaken the old reprobate until the bones rattled again in his shrivelled skin. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z The wind was not blowing, but from the birch bushes growing at the foot of the crucifix the last leaves were dropping noiselessly, yellow and shrivelled from frost. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z It was not merely that they were weazened and shrivelled—though they were certainly that too—but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z ‘But I shouldn’t think anybody would want to marry you now, if you are so old as you say you are,’ cried Gerna, with all a child’s candour, thinking of her shrivelled, toothless old great-grandmother. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z He had shrunk—“shrivelled up” might be more accurate. Haruki Murakami: “Town of Cats.” 2011-08-29T04:00:00Z As if the remembrance of this sad scene had utterly overcome her, Rachel Liversedge hid her face in her hands, and wept until the tears welled through her tanned and shrivelled fingers. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z Her whiskers were gone, her beautiful ruffle had shrivelled away, her coat was black with ashes; but the kitten for whom she had dared so much was safe. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z The two young men were going into the desolate sitting-room, where the daffodils, gathered ten days before, were hanging their pretty heads, all shrivelled and forlorn. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie, Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand, Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry— Meadows and gardens running through my hand. Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z The bush burned fiercely, hissing and crackling as the fibres of the green wood and the pointed needles shrivelled up. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Brown fern, shrivelled rush tip, grey rowen grass at the verge of the ditch showed that frost had wandered thither in the night. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z He nodded patronizingly to the little shrivelled head-waiter who was standing behind the bar counting the guests. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulders, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shrivelled up. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Who shall now praise the shrivelled fruit, Or raise the eyelids of those flowers? Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z For there stood before him a man bent with the burden of care, with sunken eyes and shrivelled lips, as if suffering from a grievous internal disease. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z The oak-apples which appear on the oaks in spring—generally near the trunk—fall off in the summer, and lie shrivelled on the ground not unlike rotten cork, or black as if burned. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It was moonlight, and we moved along through the heavily-timbered kloofs in single file behind the shadowy figure of the shrivelled old chief. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z And yet he was carrying around with him every day three faded, shrivelled wild-rose buds. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z It looked tired and grey, and very, very old; and the thin hands crossed on her lap, how shrivelled they were!—they trembled all the time as though they could not keep still. A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z Some of the leaves seemed worse shrivelled than others. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z Horror struck his auditor dumb; her shrivelled lips moved with a tremulous motion, as if she desired to speak—but she spoke not. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z He would hear a great hoarse voice, and a little woman with a shrivelled face and covered with jewels, would squeak and gibber at him. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z You would not imagine that there was any air contained within this shrivelled apple, by its appearance; but take notice of it when placed within a receiver, from which I shall exhaust the air. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The magnificent new church had shrivelled up to the original mean little edifice Anna had known all her life. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z He himself was usually very quiet, yet there was a look creeping over him to which I could not shut my eyes; he was thinner, greyer, and shrivelled. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z This Manuscript is now simply a collection of the shrivelled fragments of sixty-four leaves which survived the fire of 1731; the last leaf contains Mark xvi. 6-20. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z She held out her left hand, a little shrivelled hand, for him to kiss. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Yet, methought it was famine and misery, more than sorrow for the dead, which had set on them such a yellow and shrivelled seal. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z He was dried, shrivelled, mere skin and bone. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z My heart beat violently, I breathed in gasps, and I knew that if a wind arose I should be shrivelled up as feathers would be in a fire. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z There was about this little shrivelled wretch an air and character so irresistibly comical, that I could hardly suppress laughter. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z It is like the chill, dark crypts underneath our churches, where the masses for the dead are celebrated, and where in some monastic churches the embalmed corpses lie shrivelled to mummies, and visible through gratings. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z How wondrous must be the beauty when a glimpse of it suffices to hasten the blood through shrivelled veins, and provoke tempestuous currents to awake atrophied nerves! Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Here she held up the shrivelled snake’s head, so that it could be seen by all. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z But what was that blackened, shrivelled, crackling mass contorted so horribly beside him among the charred stumps of the fern? By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z In the twinkling of an eye the glamour of morning had shrunk and shrivelled,—fallen to the dust and left no more trace than would a broken bubble. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The shrivelled foliage in the parks was gray with dust. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Where graceful Youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of Age, had pinched and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z A very small woman, with shrivelled face and sharp features, was Tug's booty, and she trembled violently as she piteously held out her hands to the two men. The Mystery of the Locks 2011-05-29T02:00:08.800Z I crouched in the corner, and fought the flames that shrivelled up my flesh. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z As we went through the other silent chambers--empty snail-shells of his shrivelled, dried-up life--my frozen blood began to thaw within me, and to move in warm, light mercury-globules. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The bark snapped, curled and shrivelled; the branches crackled; the little flames leaped, the fire crept higher and higher till it lighted our faces and the waters in the foreground. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z "My heart can never be a stone again, nor my soul a shrivelled leaf." Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z But the terrible civil war in Iraq that followed America’s invasion in 2003—portrayed as intervention against tyranny—shrivelled support for the doctrine. Responsibility to protect: The lessons of Libya 2011-05-19T11:03:06Z Next instant Gwynneth's arms were about the old woman's neck, and her fresh lips had touched the wet and shrivelled cheek of Georgie's grandmother. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z At length he arrived, B�rstel by name, a shrivelled and dried-up snail of a man, with a round, shy, listening button-face, all hunger, anxiety, and attention. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Her withered face seemed small, and more shrivelled up than ever; but her eyes, usually sharp and piercing as those of a rattlesnake, were now hard as steel. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z It seemed to Poppy that while she stood watching this man, something inside her shrivelled up and blew away from her like a leaf in the wind. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The skin is thick, coarse, and dry, giving him a very old appearance on account of its shrivelled condition. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z With a muttered Spanish curse he dropped the egg upon the deck, and stamped his foot upon the shrivelled, half-formed little sea-gull that the shell had enclosed. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z Perhaps but for it, I should have been one of the broken-hearted bees who, with scorched and shrivelled wings, still continued to buzz around Belle Mainwaring—long after she became a wife. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z What a strange sense of formalised deformity, of shrivelled precision, of starved accuracy, of minute misanthropy have we, as we leave even the rude streets of Picardy for the market towns of Kent! The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z "My soul is like a shrivelled leaf," is what she answered. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The Cadger, a shrivelled, unkempt figure, his coat collar turned up over a collarless shirt, an aggressively checkered peak cap pulled far down over his eyes, thrust an envelope unceremoniously into Billy Kane’s hand. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z I found Aasen a prematurely shrivelled little man, with a parchment face, thin, shy and nervous. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z "By the rood! if thou give it not to me, I will wring thy shrivelled neck for thee," he cried, with sudden impetuosity. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z A tall, thin personage, with skin like shrivelled parchment, and a countenance that would be repulsive but for the nun's coif, which, partly concealing, tones down its sinister expression. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Her soul was still a shrivelled leaf, and her heart as cold as a stone in the sea. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z A sick man sighed: "I'll miss his smile;" A shrivelled crone did shake her head And mutter to herself the while How oft his hand had given bread. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z I await thee, to tan this shrivelled, shorn hide. Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies 2011-04-04T02:00:10.823Z In Scrophularia the fifth stamen appears in the form of a scale; and in many Pentstemons it is reduced to a filament with hairs or a shrivelled membrane at the apex. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z He was a little man, at an advanced period of life, whose spare and shrivelled form might be fancied ill-calculated to support the large head which surmounted it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Her body shrank and shrivelled and her head grew smaller. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z It was one of goodly dimensions, somewhat shrivelled up between the fingers of the ex-footpad, that were clutching it with firm muscular grasp. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z One trait of last week's coverage – a trait swollen by the generally shrivelled amount of actual news on offer – was the dear old vox pop. The squeeze and splurge 2011-03-27T15:30:01Z Here it is,’ replied the grandame as she picked up a shrivelled leaf and handed it to the astonished boy. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z His arrogance sickened, shrivelled up; even his possessions suddenly seemed to him insignificant. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z He is short, ugly, shrivelled, and bowed down with care; What is styled a spare man, or a man all could spare. The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook 2011-03-13T03:00:22.773Z Never have I known a cold so intense nor a wind that shrivelled the flesh so quickly. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z I suspect she was not half so old as her wrinkled face and sunken eyes and shrivelled hands indicated. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Some bushes had kept all their leaves, but they were blackened and shrivelled; others had retained only a few red and yellow leaflets that fluttered in the wind. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z I positively shrivelled up inside, if you know what I mean; felt like a fish on the end of a fork thrust suddenly into a blazing fire. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z She did not reason—she felt; reason was shrivelled up in the fire of emotion. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z There was no grass, for the wretched substitute in the dried shrivelled blades that nodded faintly in the wind could scarcely be designated as such. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z He noticed the windows which did not sufficiently keep out the draught, the girl's shoes, shrivelled with having been wet through constantly, the piles of books lying on the table, the sofa and everywhere. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z We found them lying in heaps among the flowers, little, shapeless, shrivelled things, mere specks of brilliant dust. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z And he began to spit about him, and stamp his feet, threatening the innocent Yakut earth with tightened lips and his shrivelled hands, and muttering Jewish maledictions. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z His neck is shrivelled and knotted, like an old vine-tree; his back rounded, and his legs crooked; all for want of care and nourishment. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z He is now a dry, shrivelled up, scoffing spirit. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Already by the end of August the night frosts had shrivelled and blackened foliage of every kind, depriving it of its natural beauty. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z The veteran gazes around, shading his eyes with his shrivelled hand. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z The old bards shall cease, and their memory that lingers Of frail brides and faithless, shall be shrivelled as with fire. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z The tiny shoots are no more than a few centimetres long, but half of them are already shrivelled and drying. Parched crops 2011-03-01T10:24:13Z He was a little old Belgian, shrivelled and trembling. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z The second time, Lucy begged to go and see her old friend, and wept bitterly over his shrivelled hand; but the old man was incoherent, and knew them not. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z Cattle roamed without herdsmen, harvests withered up, grapes shrivelled on the vines. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z I had blended my being with a little seed, and in the spring green tufts of life burst out from my shrivelled heart. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z “Thereupon they rolled upon the paper, and after they had done so they were changed to two shrivelled women.” Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental 2011-02-22T03:00:06.247Z Dempster shrivelled up, and hung flaccid on his spinal column, like a hooked worm that has been long in the water. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z The old man lay with his eyes closed, and his long shrivelled arms outside the clothes. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z It was the most burningly critical look that has ever shrivelled my flesh. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z So the summer passed, and then I felt myself growing shrivelled and old. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z He seemed to have no feeling of the biting cold, though the weak hands were blue and shrivelled, and the grey face pinched with grief, hideous also with embittered age. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z "How shrivelled and thin you've become already, there's no depth of flesh here!" Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life 2011-02-14T03:00:32.700Z The shrivelled little figure, the cruel clean-shaven face, the bald head and rat-like eyes, made up an object of utter detestation to Miriam. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z As the lips curled and shrivelled away from the teeth, his master, who was observing the effects of heat, exclaimed,—"The rascal laughs!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Unloving voices answered each other in hoarse whispers, like a hot, dry wind through the crisp and shrivelled sedges of a dried-up watercourse. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z A tall thin personage, with skin like shrivelled parchment, and a countenance that would be repulsive but for the nun’s coif, which partly concealing, tones down its sinister expression. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z As Pierot spoke, the rose, which he had stuck in his cap, shrivelled and faded, while a queer sensation as if he were being carried up into the air swept over him. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z Then, Medicine Man, despair settled in my heart; I shrivelled like the ungathered wild plum, I burned with a fierce, hot inward fire. The Fire Bird 2011-02-07T03:00:26.667Z Oh, deary me, I'm all burnt up and aching, and shrivelled cruel. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z A neighbour’s cassava is barely knee-high; its leaves are blighted, its roots shrivelled and rotting. Cassava: Second helpings of tapioca pudding 2011-01-27T10:58:13Z The nurses, forgetting the trouble her querulousness and her overweening dietary scruples had cost them, hung over the bed on which the shrivelled entity lay. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z You take pleasure in the sight of dead bodies, shrivelled limbs, wide-open mouths, features distorted in the weird horror of death. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z An hour later, two of the sisters Archignat appeared, two skinny, shrivelled old hags, looking like witches in their dirty, greasy caps with the black-velvet bows. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z This person had a shrivelled, care-worn, but keen look, and was somewhat better dressed than most around him, though not particularly elegant, or even very neat, in his toilette. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z It was fretful and peevish and frightfully shrivelled. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The little grandmother thrust a shrivelled claw into her peaked, shrunken bosom, and drew out a paper, crumpled and yellow as herself, covered with strange crabbed hieroglyphics, whose hue had long since faded. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z I put it away carefully among my curiosities, but after a few days it shrivelled, and lost its beauty. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z It may be a taint of the flesh in me, but I can't adjust myself to the belief that the ascetics and shrivelled yogis that I've seen are the proper habitations for pure spirituality. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Now he knows I'm no dull, shrivelled, half-way creature for the valleys, no slave nature, no sheep that runs with the flock, no Mrs. Grundy-made fool, who voluntarily conforms to each and every convention. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Dust lay upon him—thick, yellow dust—upon his hair, his shoulders, his shrivelled, lemon-coloured hands. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z There were old ladies there, I could almost take my word, who are more often to be encountered, with morocco-bound prayer-books in their shrivelled hands, creeping to early service. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z He came out of the door presently, an old bent figure with white hair and shrivelled face. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z When at last the door was opened a shrivelled little old woman, rather wicked-looking in a comic way, and rather begrimed, stood there. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z Thrown anyhow on the dingy shelves were scraps of fish, butter and suet, jars of dripping, some shrivelled apples and the scraggy remains of a leg of mutton. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z The square burly figure and its shrivelled, meagre companion stood out against the sky-line, and turning their faces, they looked back at me. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z Now and then they rose from the orchard with shrill screams, as Jenny drove them away from the few shrivelled plums left on the trees by flapping a dish-cloth at them. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z The old man shrunk and shrivelled and grew small. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z It grows ugly of face, shrivelled of form, ill-tempered, wailing, and generally frightful. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z And now, the warmth, the shelter, and food!—And again he thanked his friend, cowering, shrivelled, in his threadbare clothes. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z If I am pinched and withered by disease, I will not disguise it from you by wrappages of cloth; but I will let you see that I am shrunken and shrivelled to the bone. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z In America soaring GDP growth is likely to be a one-quarter wonder, driven by a rebuilding of firms’ shrivelled inventories. 2010-01-21T10:37:00Z Winter, as the oldest season, is drawn with shrivelled limbs, and white and hoary locks, to represent the appearance of old age. Heathen Mythology The tongues of fern growing along the edge of the water were nipped and shrivelled up, and they looked as they stood there like little wrinkled old women in their blurred brown rags. The Undying Past In these veins," seizing the old man's shrivelled wrist, "runs the blood of the Bruce! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 "See ye the little thatched house at the foot o' Lincleugh Hill yonder?" said Bertha, after some moments of solemn silence, and holding out her shrivelled hand. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Tall and bony, he had the appearance of a gigantic skeleton covered with shrivelled brown leather; his forehead, large and deeply-furrowed, rose over two shaggy eyebrows, that overshadowed eyes of light blue, keen and restless. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 Our thirst parched and shrivelled up our throats. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 The abdomens of these become more or less contracted and shrivelled on drying, sometimes to such an extent as to look most unsightly. Butterflies and Moths (British) A warlock, auld and shrivelled, wi' a white beard, touches wi' his wand the coffin; the lid lifts, and the head o' a king, wi' a leaden crown, rises frae the bier! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 And then, when the chestnut-leaves were at last able to unfurl themselves, in a quiet, windless moment, then they were scorched and shrivelled for the whole summer, for their whole leafy lives. Small Souls The ground all about it was bare, and a few stunted, shrivelled cedars stood at one side. The Man from Jericho We were closely followed by the newly bought trunks; one filled with ancient baggage, like a large and beautiful nut showing a shrivelled kernel; the others an empty magnificence. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Stiff and stark, with haggard cheek and shrivelled lip, he lies among the snow drifts; till, with tooth and claw, the famished wildcat strives in vain to pierce the frigid marble of his limbs. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Out it all shrivelled at a blasting thought that stopped her very heart. The Unknown Sea In a wicker-work chair on the verandah sat the tall, old figure of the husband, his ivory forehead bulging above the pages of the newspaper which he held in his large, shrivelled hands.... Small Souls This then, sinking in upon the shrinking interior, will be thrown into folds, like the skin on a shrivelled apple. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight "So that's the genius!" said Lady Hammergallow, and turned and looked at him through the gilt glasses on a stick that she always carried in her shrivelled and shaky hand. The Wonderful Visit Then the smoke gradually cleared away, and she saw the body of the creature burning slowly till it became shrivelled and black like a cinder, and finally disappeared. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry When, however, we place the shrivelled flower in water, the contracted protoplasm swells up again and refills the cells, which become turgid, and the flower revives. The Mechanism of Life And the aching trees bowed branch and twig And a shrivelled leaf made cry, "If you are cold, and your heart be old, For certain, Love must die." Provocations She was wrinkled and shrivelled and looked a black object; her old face so tanned by the sun that she might almost pass for a woman of colour. Glories of Spain Their faces collapse and become as wrinkled and dry as a shrivelled apple. The Wonderful Visit Still she ventured, tremblingly, to take her father's hand,—that miserable and shrivelled hand, withered and wasted by excess of toil. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 Their old-fashioned, stately, tight-laced, shrivelled figures formed a strange contrast with the easiness of the young people in their simple serge summer suits: they made Princess Wanda's tangled hair and rumpled blouse look perfectly disreputable. Majesty A Novel The old man lay abed and coughed, his pale, shrivelled face reddened, the teeth showed between the drawn lips, and the blue veins stood out on his temples. Yiddish Tales Time after time a little whipper-snapper, lean, shrivelled and short would enter a dining-room followed by an enormous spouse, who came crushing down upon him like a Himalaya mountain upon a sand-hill. Glories of Spain The room was bare, and cold, and comfortless in the extreme; the painter was middle-aged, small, brown, and shrivelled, and very much out at elbows. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Still, he felt sorry for the man whom the Proclamation had shrivelled. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Exposed to the hot blast of war it peeled and shrivelled, leaving bare a diseased, worm-eaten structure, in which the honest fibre of humanity had been rotted by vile influences, both social and political. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 And she, the wife, shrivelled and shrunk before her time, sits and drinks in delight. Yiddish Tales The picture they made—the worn-out, shrivelled body of the man and the lovely woman—I cannot hope to make you understand. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance “Take all the time you want,” said old Harding, with a wave of his shrivelled, claw-like hand. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship Shoreward, a little shrivelled man, overcome by a profound melancholy, fished hopelessly from the end of the pier. Last Words Gaunt, shrivelled and bronzed by exposure, though hardy and muscular from athletic exercise, they are, indeed, the Arabs of our continent. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 Her shrivelled face alters from minute to minute; she is nervous, too. Yiddish Tales They were tall, and extremely well limbed; not one of them unwieldy or corpulent like a Taheitian, nor meagre and shrivelled like a native of Easter Island. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II To Tommy one element in the business was all-important; before it the other elements shrivelled into nothing. The Furnace "Come this way, deary," said the beldam, addressing an infant that toddled across the floor near to her seat, at the same time extending her shrivelled arm to receive it. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Curtis seized him in a grip whose crunching power made itself felt to the marrow of the Tetong's bones, and his eyes, piercing with terrible determination, shrivelled the resolution of the half-crazed man. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop It seemed, to my fancy, that the mature women were divisible into two classes, distinctly marked and with few intermediates—the obese and the shrivelled. To Cuba and Back His face, which was remarkably small, looked like shrivelled parchment, and his iron-gray hair hung straight down to his shoulders, like that of an Indian. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 IT trembled on the grass With a low, shadowy laughter; You could see each bird as it woke and stared Through the shrivelled foliage after. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II Another was the head of a very old man, grey, shrivelled, and wrinkled. Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times Her father's hair was thinner, his face was deeply lined, he had lost some of his teeth, his skin was shrivelled. Mary And there are two shrivelled, dark, Creole women, in a box; and there is one girl of eight or ten years, in full dress, with an elderly man. To Cuba and Back The past two months shrivelled like a wisp of paper in a flame. Shadows of Flames A Novel Paul was naturally of a frank chivalrous disposition, but these good qualities shrivelled up in the glow of ambition, fanned by his teachers. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle This was such a different woman, who looked across at her with bright understanding eyes, from the one she remembered: shrivelled, worthy, with a hint of tracts to come. Helena Brett's Career In a year or two he would be shrivelled up into an irritable bunch of nerves, his ability wasted, his hopes stifled. Years of Plenty The Duchess, looking peaked and shrivelled, received him with an eagerness that showed that she was longing for company. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary When she thought of her long patience in certain matters, she shrivelled with shame. Shadows of Flames A Novel Klytia however, punished by the God with a look of fiery contempt, shrivelled up, her beauty died, and she turned into a wayside plant, trodden by every passer-by under foot. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle He sat by her an hour, his eyes drinking in her fresh beauty, while his soul shrivelled more and more. Man and Maid Dancers had gone; beauties had shrivelled; but their ghosts haunted the shadowy interior. Carnival Then she saw the great bedroom upstairs, the high white bed, the little shrivelled figure. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Her spirit had slipped away, unnoticed by the loving boy whose arms encircled her shrivelled form, but whose love full surely lighted her way up among the stars! A Modern Wizard Hither to me, my boy," said the old crone, stretching her shrivelled arm to reach a low stool and set it by her side; "come thee here to me. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. It is as though we walked down the streets of a town, so tall are they and so closely do they stand—a town shrivelled by fire, and scarred by frost and siege. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel On the walls were shrivelled fans with pockets that held curl-papers mostly. Carnival Her chair was close to the flame: she sat there looking, in the fierce light, small and shrivelled; she was reading intently and made no movement except now and again when she turned a page. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary You've a lucidity of your own in which I'm forced to recognise that the highest purity of motive looks shrivelled and black. The Sacred Fount The paper flamed orange and blue, then shrivelled into blackened ashes. What a Man Wills My claes like tinder; the bed o’ dry leaves; my shrivelled boots; the bacca in powder. Seven Frozen Sailors Sit again, induna of the King, who knows not fear,” cackled the shrivelled old monkey before me. The Induna's Wife Every breath was drawn in, every head bent forward, every eye dilated upon the little shrivelled form of the old witch-doctor as he shambled forth from our midst to the spot indicated. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story Terrible for the stock, enfeebled and emaciated after months of bare subsistence on such miserable wiry blades of shrivelled grass as it could manage to pick up, and on the burnt and withered Karroo bushes. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt "Then you have made the acquaintance of that incarnate, shrivelled up darkness—that miserable mannikin, who is fond of being styled an ancient Greek?" Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine May I be shrivelled to a mummy if she hadn’t. Seven Frozen Sailors Turning, I beheld the shrivelled figure of an old crone, perched upon a point of rock overhanging a long deep reach. The Induna's Wife This wretched, shrivelled little old monkey, whose life had been spared by the merest chance, instead of being all eagerness to meet the King’s wishes, had returned a curt, almost contemptuous refusal. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story His little bowed, shrivelled figure was undecked by gauds of any kind, but his eyes were keen and bright, and searching as ever. The White Shield It was impossible to distinguish the Egyptians from the blacks, for the sun had burnt up and shrivelled the skin into one black colour. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 But as long as our ammunition lasted their formations were immediately shrivelled up. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Laugh, Untúswa, laugh, I am old and shrivelled, am I not? The Induna's Wife “Then look at the contrast,” said Lady Rockville, pointing to a long row of cart-horses with galled sides, shrivelled skins, broken knees, and emaciated bodies, which were all dragging their weary load along. Holiday House A Series of Tales I dimly saw, within a dusty glass case, in a dark corner, a shrivelled and blackened little thing which might have been moulded in mud for aught I could see, but which was labelled, "MERMAID!" The Romance of Natural History, Second Series I counted about 150 bodies along the parapet; there they lay, shrivelled up like mummies, while rats and mice had made their homes in them. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 And so she sat and shrivelled up until she became a hen indeed, and was never anything else, and died one. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series In an old high room where the shadows troop On tiptoe across the creaking boards A shrivelled man covers endless sheets Rounding out in his flourishing hand Sentence after sentence loud With dead kings' names. A Pushcart at the Curb Even, woman’s heart, with its gushing sympathies, has become dead and shrivelled up, where that relentless scourge—that demon of our time, the monotony of civilization—has been suffered to intrude. About London That thought shrivelled me withinsides while I was folding away my draft. Rewards and Fairies The two women—the dark and shrivelled old Hecate, and the pale, cold Proserpine—now brought in the supper. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" Most of the shrivelled bark, moss and dead leaves were reduced to ashes. The Auto Boys' Mystery Small men shrivelled up when he spoke to them. The Romance of the Reaper Misfortune and failure had never shrivelled his hopes or his enterprises with the frost of disappointment. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series What is the cure for these shrivelled dividends? The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Fortunately the tides had not reached as high as the mouth of the cave, and their "furniture" was undisturbed; even the shell patterns remained as formerly, though the sea-weed was brown and shrivelled. The Head Girl at the Gables A sharp, tough stake, pointed at the top, rose upright in the centre of the hollow, and upon this stake, in a sitting posture, shrivelled, half mummified, was impaled a human body. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley “I thought witch doctors were horrid shrivelled old creatures who wore all sorts of disgusting things as charms and amulets.” A Frontier Mystery The cold, spacious emptiness of his father's life, the shrivelled content of old Werner's,—these show him the quality of real life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 The answer was clothed in language less polite than forcible: "Merely the shrivelled skin and dried-up bones you carry about with you, sir!" The Tower of Dago If the air be let into the receiver, the apple will be restored to its pristine shrivelled state. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments She walked along through that flat, almost unpeopled, half desert country and it seemed that the whole world had shrivelled up. Fidelity A Novel I saw before me in the moonlight what was not at all the popular conception of the witch doctor—a little shrivelled being with furtive, cunning looks, and snaky eyes. A Frontier Mystery As she drew nearer, the air grew so hot that the red leaf shrivelled up, and Ripple would have died if she had not quickly unfolded the snowflake and wrapped herself in that cool cloak. Lulu's Library, Volume II The ancient Mr. Swammer, at other times a shrivelled, misanthropic, grumbling man, seemed suddenly to have become twenty years younger. Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors Take a shrivelled apple, and, placing it under the receiver, exhaust the air. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments Heaps of ashes and charred wood lay upon them, beneath leaves and fruits and flowers, unburnt but shrivelled and crackling in the sunshine. The Woodlands Orchids "Hühü! that I will," said the old woman, stretching out her shrivelled arms. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 Then the smoke gradually cleared away, and she saw the body of the creature burning slowly, till it became shrivelled and black like a cinder, and finally disappeared. The Irish Fairy Book Her thin shrivelled features, relieved against her black hood, were positively wolfish from starvation. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 The Hungarian wheat is red, shrivelled, and hard, and it is this hardness that fits it so well to the successive crackings which constitute the process of "high milling." The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Kate arose, and opening the door softly, beheld old Andy; his shrivelled features and lustreless eyes appearing in a state of unusual excitement. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life She shrivelled at their very proximity, drawing the angelic Babs from their contamination. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Any ordinary man would have shrivelled under its crushing impact. The Bartlett Mystery This was a little hypochondriac bookseller, pale and shrivelled, but one of the hardest drinkers. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels When I awoke, what was my astonishment to see my groom wrapped up in my mare's blanket, and snoring like a pig, while the poor mare stood shrivelled up, and looking almost frozen to death. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Then—in a moment—the familiar curtains were blowing out of the windows—shrivelled to a crisp and pursued by the red rage behind. Ancestors A Novel She didn't mean it, but unconsciously she shrivelled at the least breath of desire. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Now he beheld her in faded calico, sallow, wrinkled and grey; and she looked upon a white haired, shrivelled up, little old man. Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier Still they shrivelled and shrunk, until they no longer appeared like six tall courtiers, but like half a dozen ugly little dwarfs, barely three feet high. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children Meanwhile the gametocyte is becoming spherical, and its changes in shape aid in setting it free from the shrivelled host-cell. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Moving quickly to the fire, he tossed them on the glowing coals; watching as they curled, shrivelled, and disappeared in the heat’s maw. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 An old woman, whose features were shrivelled to the colour and consistency of a peeled walnut, placed between our feet a basket out of which stuck the necks of wine bottles. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Poor fellow! his genius had no sooner begun to bud than hatred and malice spat their poison on its leaves, and, sensitive and young, it shrivelled beneath their effusions. Life of John Keats Above the water line the bark shrivelled and scorched slightly, but Pierre looked out for this and with a scoop made from a leaf replenished the water as it steamed away. A Daughter of the Forest VI is merely a restoration, as accurate as could be made from the much shrivelled specimens. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. For now is she old, lean, withered, and dried up—nothing left but shrivelled skin and hard bone. Old and New London Volume I High up among the dusty rafters of Aughagree Chapel dangles a thin shrivelled thing, towards which the people look shudderingly when the sermon is of the terrors of the Judgment and the everlasting fire. An Isle in the Water Evan visualised his own body putrefying, and the heart shrivelled in his breast. The Deaves Affair The doctor said the man was terribly emaciated, his stomach was shrivelled up for want of food, he could have eaten nothing for two days before death.... Orientations Likewise did I kiss his child Which unto the shrivelled breast Of his wife clung fast and sucked Like some spider sick and starved. Atta Troll The Protestant choir remains in one corner, like a dry, shrivelled nut in a large shell. Old and New London Volume I She gives us cool fogs to the reopening of our shrivelled pores and just by walking along shore we are touched by this vivific principle which gives such riotous life to all things. Old Plymouth Trails Few excursionists disturbed the meditations of the shrivelled old custodian of the tower on the Mercuriusberg. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 These met him, as we have said, with a glance of withering contempt, which caused the shrivelled frame to shake and quiver. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 And at one corner of this, dangling to and fro in horrid suggestiveness, swung a shrivelled patch that held a lock of hair. The Plow-Woman The mother’s ordeal began earlier, and her waning youth had shrivelled in the anguish she was then compelled to endure. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 An instant later, a little white, shrivelled hand, loaded with jewels pushed aside the satin portières, and an old lady appeared on the threshold. Kidnapped at the Altar or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain If a spot of black, shrivelled bark appears, shave it off, deep enough to remove the affected parts, and cover the wound with grafting-wax. Soil Culture On this plain cattle were feeding, and those on the arid part were fat and well-conditioned, while the others were mean and shrivelled to a degree. Legends & Romances of Brittany They were all shrivelled, and the least touch would break their skins. Ruby at School He, who had formerly been so stout, now shrivelled up and grew yellow and thin, and was always hoarse, and did not relish his food any longer. Absolution In its dry state, it is shrivelled and contracted, and no one who was not acquainted with it could guess the purpose to which it was originally devoted. Happy Days for Boys and Girls They crucified a Man of old, The thorns are shrivelled on His brow. The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems And he continued his song— “She beckoned the moon, and the moon came down; The green earth shrivelled beneath her frown; But a man’s strong will can keep his own.” Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Aghast, I turned to examine the charred and shrivelled figure on the floor. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The man's wrinkled face shrivelled up more than ever, and his figure became quite small. Absolution All over the place I find its roots–the shrivelled parching roots of self-respect, and the aspiration that grows with self respect. In the Heart of a Fool That pore little shrivelled form With the patch on his eye and the pinned-up sleeve And a soul like a North Sea storm? Collected Poems Volume Two Yet a thing like a monkey, shrivelled and black, Chattered and danced as they forced him back. Collected Poems Volume One Irene's beautiful hair was cut off and laid away, the clear skin seemed to grow brown and shrivelled, the hands lost their plump whiteness, and the rosy nails were dull and gray. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart She wore her huge white-frilled nightcap, that fluttered in the wind about the shrivelled face it enclosed, but she presented an extremely limp and attenuated appearance in her person. The Broom-Squire I loathe my wrinkled face, my shrivelled hands, my flat chest. Money Magic A Novel A roistering, free-booting space-ship sailor, this man may once have been, but, from the drug, the mighty arms had been twisted and shrivelled, the strong legs wasted away. The Passing of Ku Sui My shrivelled wings were beaten, Shed their colours in dusty scales Before the box was opened For the moth to fly. Some Imagist Poets An Anthology Then, with a smile of pure happiness, he leveled the tube at the nearest Rogan in order to shrivel him to nothingness as he had seen the slave shrivelled in the street. The Red Hell of Jupiter As our eldest child, aged two-and-a-half, is still totally unable to walk, and its legs have become mere shrivelled sticks, I really must call in an Analyst to test our milk. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 The colourless tissue of the sclerotium disappears in the same degree as the conidia-bearers grow, and at last the black rind remains behind empty and shrivelled. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses At every step you stumble over a mummy, the mummy of a dead cat, a dead dog, or a dead and shrivelled Pharaoh. Christ, Christianity and the Bible She folded her small, shrivelled hands and a radiant smile touched her old face. At the Crossroads The moss on the ridge of the wall under which she stood to breathe looked shrivelled and thin, the green tint dried out of it. Amaryllis at the Fair He paused in the vestibule and gazed searchingly at the trembling little woman with a fierce glare that made her feel as if she were being shrivelled up where she stood. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life “But you see, Leslie–––” somehow the great question that had loomed between them these weeks dwarfed and shrivelled when he tried to explain it to Leslie––– “Well–––?” Cloudy Jewel The physical and moral pretence of warfare, the cheap splendors of epaulets and feathers, shrivelled at the single touch of the satire of the Biglow Papers. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures But the big brother was shrivelled up by the sun. The Chinese Fairy Book The surprise of the duenna was strongly pictured on her shrivelled visage, as the dismal truth obtruded itself upon her mind. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. Make her lean and shrivelled up, because she is continual dissolution. Thoughts on Art and Life Old Samaniego looked round, and his shrivelled features puckered themselves into a comical smile. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 And now this poor, deaf, shrivelled little mother, had to totter on alone. Dreamers of the Ghetto The foot and leg were blue and shrivelled, and connected with the thigh by only a small ligament; the knee pan too was shattered. Hair Breadth Escapes Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. His features are prominent, with a face wrinkled and shrivelled by discontent and acidity of temper. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait.... The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 He was an undersized man with a small face, which seemed somehow to have shrivelled up like a dead leaf. The Hound From The North The outlines of the shrivelled body beneath the sheet seemed those of a child of ten, and the legs looked curiously twisted. Dreamers of the Ghetto But he wouldn’t listen, but beat her and beat her, and held her naked feet over the fire, and toasted and roasted her till she shrivelled right up. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales At first glance, one thought him very old, for his hair was white as snow, his body shrivelled and bent, his face lined and sallow. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue I had shrivelled and starved three years out there in the desert. Whispering Smith This was curiously black in contrast with the white surroundings, for no snow was upon its weedy branches and shrivelled, discoloured leaves. The Hound From The North He seemed, every time de Spain darted a look at him, to grow visibly smaller, until his loose bulk had shrivelled inside an armchair hardly large enough normally to contain it. Nan of Music Mountain Don Severiano is a short, shrivelled old gentleman, with a sallow countenance, closely shaved like a priest's, and a collar and cravat of the latest fashion. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba And in December, shrivelled, old, Bepowdered white from foot to head, In dream she wakens Winter cold, That sleeps beside her in her bed. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems A good roasted potato is a delicacy worth a dozen compositions of the cook-book; yet when we ask for it, what burnt, shrivelled abortions are presented to us! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 Rodd saw how she suffered, saw how as the entertainment proceeded the wings of her spirit shrivelled and left her with nothing but her talent and her will. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists It was only in a very few of the more sheltered places that it yielded a scanty return of a dark-coloured and shrivelled grain. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Some were as fat as beggars; some were old and shrivelled; some were shrivelled and young; some were bold; some were frightened; and here and there was one almost fair. Dr. Sevier The bag was made of shrivelled skin of a dusty brown colour. Lotus Buds His shrivelled old housekeeper was also nowhere to be found. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 Valentine.—Alas, poor man! his eyes are sunk, and his hands shrivelled; his legs dwindled, and his back bow'd. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Thus saying, the old man shrivelled up into a snail and crawled away. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan That face was pale as ashes; it was lean and shrivelled; the cheeks were sunken; the cheek bones projected; and a million wrinkles were carved upon the deep-seamed brow and corrugated cheeks. Among the Brigands He looks rather shrivelled and dried up; but he's so very neat and refined-looking. Great Uncle Hoot-Toot Long sleepless, t'ward the close Amid his wanderings smiling, from the couch He stretched a shrivelled hand, and pointing said, 'Who was it fabled she had died in age? Legends of the Saxon Saints "Tell her," cried Norman, in a wild burst of eloquence, "that, like two grasshoppers in a volcano, we are shrivelled up in the presence of Her Spangled Vehemence!" A Tangled Tale Poor hands, poor little shrivelled and distorted feet! Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal Her face was shrivelled, it is true, and her eyes were weak; but she looked gentle and mild, and treated him with very great favor and attention. Among the Brigands So that the buds shrivelled from her confidence, she was chilled. The Rainbow The erroneous Past Lay like a shrivelled scroll before their feet; And sweet as some immeasurable rose, Expanding leaf on leaf, varying yet one, The Everlasting Present round them glowed. Legends of the Saxon Saints The wings of his assailants shrivelled instantly, and the flame, drawn into the mouth of their breathing tubes, sealed them up. In the Morning of Time The shrivelled party with the whiskers looks at me acrost the counter, an’ e’ says, ‘What business is that of yours, my man?’ The Tale of Timber Town Then the old woman came nearer, and put one of her thin, bony, shrivelled hands on his shoulder. Among the Brigands |
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