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wizened
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  • By the end of the tune, I have found the whistler, a wizened old man in a faded red shirt and overalls.  (source)
  • In the mirrors, a wizened multiplication of boy-apes did likewise, posing a single rosebud of blue-yellow flame.  (source)
  • He wore a necklace of coal fragments, wizened hawthorn berries, rabbit bones, a tiny animal skull.  (source)
    wizened = dried and wrinkled
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  • The man looking for us was a bespectacled little fellow with a wrinkled, wizened face.  (source)
    wizened = lean and wrinkled
  • All I could think of was Kilvin's statement during the demonstration: In addition to being highly corrosive, the gas burns wizen it comes in contact with air ... Even as I turned to look, the leg gave way and the worktable began to tip.†  (source)
  • From out of Maggie's doors came the Promethean Scholars, twelve wizened Mystics clutching ancient books against their chests.  (source)
  • He was elderly and wizen with a grey moustache and grey-blue eyes, and his complexion was as fair as a European's.†  (source)
  • ...grey and bent, like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm.  (source)
    wizened = thin and wrinkled
  • The driver was a little wizen-faced man of doubtful years, and he did not appear obviously susceptible to the importance of his passenger.†  (source)
  • The wizened hand reached out to pat Miss Love's arm.  (source)
    wizened = lean and wrinkled -- probably from age
  • Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed.†  (source)
  • She had dainty habits which matched her torn and filthy clothes in precisely the way her strong young cultivated voice matched her wizened face.  (source)
    wizened = lean and wrinkled
  • Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colorless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed.†  (source)
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