All 7 Uses of
wither
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Never mind, Renee," replied the marquise, with a look of tenderness that seemed out of keeping with her harsh dry features; but, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the desert of her heart, and that is the shrine of maternal love.†
Chpt 5-6
- Of course it is of no consequence," he added, with a withering smile.†
Chpt 11-12
- A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- Born in the neighborhood of Arles, she had shared in the beauty for which its women are proverbial; but that beauty had gradually withered beneath the devastating influence of the slow fever so prevalent among dwellers by the ponds of Aiguemortes and the marshes of Camargue.†
Chpt 25-26
- Madame Danglars surveyed her husband with a look of withering contempt.†
Chpt 47-48
- For I have no friend but yourself upon earth, who am neglected and forgotten by my father, harassed and persecuted by my mother-in-law, and left to the sole companionship of a paralyzed and speechless old man, whose withered hand can no longer press mine, and who can speak to me with the eye alone, although there still lingers in his heart the warmest tenderness for his poor grandchild.†
Chpt 51-52
- Really, You were only before sparkling, but now you are brilliant; take compassion on us, or, like Jupiter, you will wither us up.†
Chpt 109-110
Definition:
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(wither) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
or:
to become weaker; or feel humiliated