All 10 Uses of
wither
in
Middlemarch
- What was life worth—what great faith was possible when the whole effect of one's actions could be withered up into such parched rubbish as that?†
Chpt 1 *
- I have been little disposed to gather flowers that would wither in my hand, but now I shall pluck them with eagerness, to place them in your bosom.†
Chpt 1
- All existence seemed to beat with a lower pulse than her own, and her religious faith was a solitary cry, the struggle out of a nightmare in which every object was withering and shrinking away from her.†
Chpt 3
- He had that withered sort of paleness which will sometimes come on young faces, and his hand was very cold when she shook it.†
Chpt 4
- And now she pictured to herself the days, and months, and years which she must spend in sorting what might be called shattered mummies, and fragments of a tradition which was itself a mosaic wrought from crushed ruins—sorting them as food for a theory which was already withered in the birth like an elfin child.†
Chpt 5
- "These would be very strong considerations," said Lydgate, half ironically—still there was a withered paleness about his lips as he looked at his coffee, and did not drink—"these would be very strong considerations if I did not happen to be in debt."†
Chpt 7
- There is a forsaking which still sits at the same board and lies on the same couch with the forsaken soul, withering it the more by unloving proximity.†
Chpt 8
- He sat with his eyes bent down, and as she went towards him she thought he looked smaller—he seemed so withered and shrunken.†
Chpt 8
- This was the consciousness that Bulstrode was withering under while he made his preparations for departing from Middlemarch, and going to end his stricken life in that sad refuge, the indifference of new faces.†
Chpt 8
- It had aged to keep sad company with his own withered features.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(wither) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
or:
to become weaker; or feel humiliated