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wizened
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  • The wizened face looked in again.   (source)
    wizened = lean and wrinkled
  • Mrs. Jukniene was a wizened-up little woman, with a wrinkled face.   (source)
    wizened = thin and wrinkled
  • The face had no nose, and the head no hair; the skin was scarred, burned, and the lips were wizened black, like charcoal.†   (source)
  • Not to put too fine a gloss on it, someone else's heart, ripped out of some youngster: you wouldn't want to install an old rickety wizened-up one like the one you intend to throw away.†   (source)
  • Edgar nursed the fire along late into the night, bent over the coals like a wizened old man, fatigued, though they had hardly done a thing all day.†   (source)
  • Tombstones and statues jutted out of the side of the wall, as if a huge graveyard had been upended, and, like three wizened chimpanzees in tattered black suits that did up in the back, the Duke of Westminster, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the Honorable Archibald Fitzhugh were swinging from statue to stone, dangling Bod between them as they went, tossing him from one to another, never missing him, always catching him with ease, without even looking.†   (source)
  • She turned, face to face with a wizened cardinal.†   (source)
  • Instead of a wizened crone, I'm met with a formidable woman made of steel and shadow.†   (source)
  • His hair is so short, and he's so skinny, that he looks like a wizened old man.†   (source)
  • She listened, nodding her head like a wizened owl, as the tale of the morning's woes came pouring out.†   (source)
  • She pointed to a stall where a wizened little woman was grilling meat and onions on a hot firestone.†   (source)
  • But when the frail, wizened lama slated to preside over the puja had been unable to make the trip from his distant village on the appointed day, Ang Tshering declared that it would be O.K. for us to climb through the Icefall after all, because Sagarmatha understood that we intended to perform the puja very soon thereafter.†   (source)
  • By Hegemony Standard, it is October 12, 589 p. c. By Hyperion reckoning, or so I am told by the wizened little clerk in the old hotel where I am staying, it is the twentyzthird day of Lycius (the last of their seven forty-day months), either 426 A.D.C. (after dropship crash!†   (source)
  • Christoffels was the third and only other employee in the shop, a bent, wizened little man who looked older than Father though actually he was ten years younger.†   (source)
  • If coupons are lacking, dial 1-800-HONG KONG instantly to apply from the help of our wizened operators.†   (source)
  • Two more nuns appeared, wizened and creaky.†   (source)
  • Her wizened face cracked in a humorless smile that showed her tiny yellow teeth.†   (source)
  • 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 ….†   (source)
  • During grace, Bailey stood in the doorway, a figure of obedience, but I knew his mind was on Tom Sawyer and Jim as mine would have been on Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, but for the glittering eyes of wizened old Mr. Taylor.†   (source)
  • You, on the other hand, would bring back Ra, that wizened old carcass of a sun god.†   (source)
  • Saphira sent him an image of the short, wizened werecat Maud, in human form, standing between two pale elves who were no taller than she.†   (source)
  • Spanish moss hung from the tree branches, while kudzu climbed the wizened trunks.†   (source)
  • She was a wizened old lady, come to have a look around her old place, and she fixed a blue eye on Nancy and said, "Little girl, you are going to hate this house.†   (source)
  • "These are the elders of my village," he said, motioning to the five wizened men.†   (source)
  • Her eyes seemed to shine in the dwindling light, bright and birdlike, like a wizened owl's.†   (source)
  • Her face had wizened.†   (source)
  • Their long branches reminded her of the arms and fingers of wizened old women.†   (source)
  • The twins lay swaddled next to each other like larvae, sharing the incubator, their skulls covered with monkey caps and only their wizened, newborn faces showing.†   (source)
  • More people had arrived on the day after Guiding Star had been born, a small boy called Oto-I and a tiny wizened old lady, both of them parched and hungry.†   (source)
  • The wizened, gentle old woman had made her living washing and ironing for the rich folks, saving her dollar bills and pocket change over a long lifetime.†   (source)
  • A little giddy, perhaps apprehensive, as it were, we were directed into our seats by the wizened woman and told to remain silent.†   (source)
  • Our mouths—hers a wizened picker—spread into the same surprised half-smile at just the same time.†   (source)
  • A moment later the door was opened by a wizened domovoi with blue-tinted spectacles pulling an empty cart.†   (source)
  • There was a small bar in a dark corner of the room, where an old, wizened bartender stood for long stretches of time without moving.†   (source)
  • With her wizened breasts and lumpy thighs, she looks like a rotten pear.†   (source)
  • She had never given much thought to the ages of the Silent Brothers before, assuming them to be all some species of wizened and old.†   (source)
  • The voice came from a slightly wizened, diminutive woman who scowled at me from behind a cigarette ash.†   (source)
  • The wizened crones speak to us: "When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"†   (source)
  • In a room on the second floor of the building, a thin, wizened Saudi cleric was lecturing several dozen spellbound fighters on the role they would play, inshallah, in bringing about the end of days.†   (source)
  • A wizened bartender wearing shades materialized and Metzger ordered bourbon.†   (source)
  • And even Church himself, wizened, peering, his face blackened and bruised by the internal blows of suffering, embodied the ageless money-lender.†   (source)
  • A wizened old guard was up by the ticket barrier,   (source)
    wizened = lean and wrinkled
  • It was Tom, the wizened, toothless landlord.   (source)
  • he would be a wizened, but hearty old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his face and hands,   (source)
    wizened = lean and wrinkled (typically from age)
  • Before we finish the man's chest Stephen presses a wizened rose hip there to make a heart.   (source)
    wizened = dried and wrinkled
  • From out of Maggie's doors came the Promethean Scholars, twelve wizened Mystics clutching ancient books against their chests.   (source)
    wizened = lean and wrinkled
  • Harry thought he recognized a Snargaluff and gave the wizened stump a wide berth.†   (source)
  • She stooped down, seized one of Dudley's massive arms in her wizened hands and tugged.†   (source)
  • Only Tom the landlord, wizened and toothless, remained of the old crowd.†   (source)
  • The wizened witch started whispering in his ear.†   (source)
  • "I want …." the wizened cardinal said, "…. to do what is right."†   (source)
  • Yeah," said Harry, twisting Kreacher's wizened arm into a half nelson.†   (source)
  • Frail, shrunken, wizened, and blind, it was hard to imagine him as a little boy no older than Arya.†   (source)
  • "Sudri," said the imp, addressing the wizened thing.†   (source)
  • The wizened gray giant shuffled into sight, holding an oversized meat cleaver.†   (source)
  • They were wizened, bug-eyed, with big foreheads.†   (source)
  • Her eyes misting, she touched my face with her wizened hand.†   (source)
  • The Maid was beautiful, the Crone wizened and wise.†   (source)
  • He returned with the Conjurer's Codex, laying it out before the wizened Agent.†   (source)
  • Richter's words and consulted briefly with the wizened crones who had accompanied her.†   (source)
  • Reich repeated coldly, keeping his eyes on the wizened man.†   (source)
  • Most households bake their own, though you can get dried-up rolls and wizened doughnuts at Daily Bread, if you run short.†   (source)
  • He saw a wizened witch flit out of the frame of her picture and into the one next to it, which contained a wizard with a walrus mustache.†   (source)
  • Lord Walder was ninety, a wizened pink weasel with a bald spotted head, too gouty to stand unassisted.†   (source)
  • He recognized in her then a wizened version of the little girl with Shirley Temple curls, the one who had confronted him in the Mellen diner and asked for the secret he didn't know.†   (source)
  • Level two, Department of Magical Law Enforcement, including the Improper Use of Magic Office, Auror Headquarters, and Wizen-gamot Administration Services," said the disembodied witch's voice.†   (source)
  • The crossroads made for odd companions; dyers with black and purple hands shared a bench with rivermen reeking of fish, an ironsmith thick with muscle squeezed in beside a wizened old septon, hard-bitten sellswords and soft plump merchants swapped news like boon companions.†   (source)
  • "My heart agrees," the wizened cardinal said, still holding her arm, "and yet it is a path from which there is no return.†   (source)
  • The wizened witch who had flitted into her neighbor's painting when he had joined the champions downstairs was now sitting smugly beside the Fat Lady.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore's innumerable contributions to the store of Wizarding knowledge, including his discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, will benefit generations to come, as will the wisdom he dis-played in the many judgments while Chief Warlock of the Wizen-gamot.†   (source)
  • Last of all, Margaery brought her before the wizened white-haired doll of a woman at the head of the table.†   (source)
  • In the absence of her bloodriders, a wizened jaqqa rhan called Rommo, squint-eyed and bowlegged, came to speak for her Dothraki.†   (source)
  • I've seen newborn babies, with their wizened dried-apricot look, and these Jesuses are nothing like them.†   (source)
  • At his feet upon the steps sat a wizened figure of a man, with a pale wise face and heavy-lidded eyes.†   (source)
  • Its black trunk was wizened, and the low-hanging branches would have kept him and his brothers occupied for hours when they were boys.†   (source)
  • Indeed she is—a woman who happens to be Queen and who holds the entirety of my future in her wizened hands.†   (source)
  • He had paid them to do it-he whom the law permitted no other way to gain his freedom, no right to state the facts and plead the truth-the law which delivered his fate, not to objective rules objectively defined, but to the arbitrary mercy of a judge with a wizened face and a look of empty cunning.†   (source)
  • She had been the oldest member of the Red Branch, a wizened woman who had survived countless battles and world wars only to fall at the hands of her own captain.†   (source)
  • …to have entered the perspective hallway never to return. staff there claim to have since heard sawing and hammering in the attic. at the time of her death, ellen rimbauer, once the most beautiful and envied woman in seattle's high society, was a wizened old lady, feverish, half blind and slightly mad. it is said that from time to time rose red can be heard laughing or crying-that the sound carries for miles and is often mistaken for either a wild animal or a ship's horn. soon i shall…†   (source)
  • Tyrion wondered which of them looked more absurd, him with Sansa or the wizened little woman between her seven-foot-tall twin guardsmen.†   (source)
  • Instead, standing on the other side of the gate, wearing a topi, a lambswool pillbox cap the same distinguished shade of gray as his beard, a wizened old man, with features so strong they might have been carved out of the canyon walls, waited.†   (source)
  • "Fill it up with regular," I said to the attendant, a wizened, elderly man who seemed in pain when he moved.†   (source)
  • "Is it true, my lord?" asked the High Septon, a small, shrewd man with a wispy white beard and wizened face.†   (source)
  • Max said hello to them but focused quickly on the strange, wizened thing studying him from the far end of the table.†   (source)
  • Wizened old women bent like hunchbacks sold flavored waters and goat's milk from glazed ceramic jugs strapped to their shoulders.†   (source)
  • Through the indigo murk, she could make out the wizened features of the Undying One to her right, an old old man, wrinkled and hairless.†   (source)
  • "It's not just, it's not," she heard one wizened old woman complain to another when they had bedded down for the night.†   (source)
  • Sansa visited each of the Seven in turn, lighting a candle at each altar, and then found herself a place on the benches between a wizened old washerwoman and a boy no older than Rickon, dressed in the fine linen tunic of a knight's son.†   (source)
  • 'Name the terms,' said Gandalf steadily, but those nearby saw the anguish in his face, and now he seemed an old and wizened man, crushed, defeated at last.†   (source)
  • Its wizened face peeked dirtily out of its swaddling discomfort of soiled jackets and pink ribbon.†   (source)
  • The baby looked blue and wizened to him and he felt that there must be something wrong with it.†   (source)
  • " "You're jus' jumpy," the wizened man said.†   (source)
  • He had a small face, wizened into virtue.†   (source)
  • Her face was wizened and dull, deep gray pouches under blank eyes, and a mouth slack and loose.†   (source)
  • A wizened little man with a wrinkled face slapped his knee.†   (source)
  • " The wizened man whispered, "Under the bridge span--out that way.†   (source)
  • And men laughed suddenly at the smiling, wizened little old man, whose sparse white beard was scattered all over his chin.†   (source)
  • Desdemona robbed of life or honour is nothing to a Mordred, robbed of himself—his soul stolen, overlaid, wizened, while the mother-character lives in triumph, superfluously and with stifling love endowed on him, seemingly innocent of ill-intention.†   (source)
  • And then she was staring with too great an interest across the room, at the wizened figure of a little man coughing over a whisky glass.†   (source)
  • A lot of wizened old men crouching here like spiders for anyone who comes near …. it's filthy …. who'd want to live to an age like that, anyhow?†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was because I had generally seen her alone, and beside me she had seemed tall and gaunt, but she looked shrunken now in size, more wizened, and I noticed she had to look up to Favell and to Frank and Maxim.†   (source)
  • " The wizened man said, "We struck.†   (source)
  • " "Fi' cents?" the wizened man cried.†   (source)
  • The tent flaps opened and a wizened woman came out--a face wrinkled as a dried leaf and eyes that seemed to flame in her face, black eyes that seemed to look out of a well of horror.†   (source)
  • It was a small, wizened man with a full beard, he held a candle in his hand.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He was a dirty, little, used-up old man with evil eyes and a weak mouth, who swallowed an opium pill every two hours, and in defiance of common decency wore his hair uncovered and falling in wild stringy locks about his wizened grimy face.†   (source)
  • A tall wizen-faced man, with a stiff grizzled moustache and swarthy skin, who was passing out with his partner, said: "And may we have some refreshment, too, Miss Morkan?"†   (source)
  • The guide, a thinnish, tall and wizened type, with a long, narrow head and small, keen, bright blue eyes laughed a yokelish laugh as he studied the group.†   (source)
  • The wind was so nipping that the ivy-leaves had become wizened and gray, each tapping incessantly upon its neighbour with a disquieting stir of her nerves.†   (source)
  • We were admitted by a strange, wizened, rusty-coated old manservant, who seemed in keeping with the house.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Hayward had altered a little in appearance: his fine hair was thinner, and with the rapid wilting of the very fair, he was becoming wizened and colourless; his blue eyes were paler than they had been, and there was a muzziness about his features.†   (source)
  • His wizened face, time-tinted and weather-stained to the complexion of an antique parchment, was here and there peppered blue by the chance explosion of a gun-cartridge in action.†   (source)
  • Her coachman, whom she questioned, had not seen anyone answering the description his mistress gave him of the wizened figure of the little Frenchman.†   (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)
  • Madeline saw a very short, wizened little man, ludicrously bow-legged, with a face the color and hardness of a burned-out cinder.†   (source)
  • His wizened face broke into a broader smile, and the three young ladies laughed in musical echo to his pleasantry, swaying their bodies to and fro, with nervous jerks of their shoulders.†   (source)
  • Mr. Hegglund of Jersey City escorted him to the twelfth floor and into a room where they found on guard a wizened' and grizzled little old man of doubtful age and temperament, who forthwith outfitted Clyde with a suit that was so near a fit that, without further orders, it was not deemed necessary to alter it.†   (source)
  • Comrade Ostrinski was a little man, scarcely up to Jurgis's shoulder, wizened and wrinkled, very ugly, and slightly lame.†   (source)
  • The immense and magnanimous Doramin and his little motherly witch of a wife, gazing together upon the land and nursing secretly their dreams of parental ambition; Tunku Allang, wizened and greatly perplexed; Dain Waris, intelligent and brave, with his faith in Jim, with his firm glance and his ironic friendliness; the girl, absorbed in her frightened, suspicious adoration; Tamb' Itam, surly and faithful; Cornelius, leaning his forehead against the fence under the moonlight—I am certain…†   (source)
  • She was a wrinkled-up and wizened personage—she must have been eighty—and as she mumbled the grim story through her toothless gums, she seemed a very old witch to them.†   (source)
  • He stamps with his feet, he tosses his head, he sways and swings to and fro; he has a wizened-up little face, irresistibly comical; and, when he executes a turn or a flourish, his brows knit and his lips work and his eyelids wink—the very ends of his necktie bristle out.†   (source)
  • Shortly after, there was a prodigious cackling and gratulation of Chanticleer and all his family, including the wizened chicken, who appeared to understand the matter quite as well as did his sire, his mother, or his aunt.†   (source)
  • Chanticleer himself, though stalking on two stilt-like legs, with the dignity of interminable descent in all his gestures, was hardly bigger than an ordinary partridge; his two wives were about the size of quails; and as for the one chicken, it looked small enough to be still in the egg, and, at the same time, sufficiently old, withered, wizened, and experienced, to have been founder of the antiquated race.†   (source)
  • He had a wizened black face like a small, aged monkey.   (source)
  • MacRannoch was studying the wizened little man, trying to subtract thirty years from the seamed countenance.†   (source)
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