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Example sentences for "wizened"

Lexicographically close words:
wizard; wizardry; wizards; wize; wizen; wizout; wlad; woad; woak
  1. Glancing at the lean and wizened Cathro, he said, "You hear that, Cathro?

  2. Boscoe, a wizened little tinsmith, with the grime of his trade upon him, looked vacuously to his front, and buried his nose in his pot of beer.

  3. I besought him to give me his blessing, and then kissed his small, wizened hand with great fervour.

  4. A young Japanese passed her carrying his bent and wizened mother on his back; the old woman, clutching him tightly about the neck, turned her shaven head to watch.

  5. In the moldy shade above a grim, wizened row of images of the god of justice, was nailed a sign-board: "Everybody are require not to broke the trees.

  6. Quadrupled strings of corals encircled her wizened neck, and a black velvet bodice bedecked with silver buttons, a skirt of bold check pattern, and a poke-bonnet formed her customary walking attire.

  7. But on this road, in the dust, a travelling harp-player was trudging along, accompanied by a wizened little boy and a still more wizened monkey.

  8. He was a life-long paralytic and wizened like an old man, and deaf and dumb.

  9. Some of their faces looked very wizened and small beneath their great shrapnel helmets.

  10. Therese, who knew what those words meant, turned a little pale, and looked tenderly down upon the little ugly brown face, now so pinched and wizened and changed, which kept slipping down from the pillow.

  11. His bald scalp had no protection; his wizened features were twisted in agony and despair.

  12. Mackenzie, at the end of the Temple, wondered whether the wizened figure on the throne retained the least drop of warm blood in his veins, the least remnant of humanity.

  13. Ivory pale, lined and wizened with great age, it was rendered strangely impressive by the eyes, which beamed with the lustre and brilliance of youth.

  14. After supper the wizened one announced that he must ride on with his party.

  15. So much John Flint had set down in the note which the wizened one had delivered to Carhart.

  16. The next adventure befell on the night after the departure of the wizened one; and it brought out the ugly strain in the opera bouffe business of these wild railroading days.

  17. The wizened one produced a letter, and dropped into the chair which Young Van had brought forward.

  18. The wizened one glanced up with a keen expression about his eyes.

  19. As the wizened one ventured this observation he crossed his legs and thrust his hands into his pockets.

  20. One of these, a wizened little man with a kindly smile and shrewd eyes, dismounted before the headquarters tent and peered in between the flaps.

  21. He was of diminutive figure, very wizened and wiry, with long grizzly hair and small bright eyes, with a wonderfully roguish expression in them.

  22. Among the first was a somewhat battered-looking wherry, with a little wizened old man and a boy pulling.

  23. Connel smiled behind the protection of his helmet, as he looked at the wizened spaceman, who was now old and toothless, but who still had the same merry twinkle in his eye that Connel had noticed the first time he saw him.

  24. Almost immediately he spotted a small wizened man limping toward him.

  25. Roger turned to look at the wizened spaceman who still was chewing on the plug of tobacco.

  26. Roger turned from the automatic food dispenser and stared at a wizened little man standing beside him, grinning up at him toothlessly.

  27. You should have seen the little wizened man jump at the word.

  28. And from that very hour the flesh seemed to melt off his bones till he became as ugly and as wizened a child as you would see between the Point of Ayr and the Calf.

  29. And he came home next day dragging one foot after another, with a wizened face and as cross as two sticks, with his two humps on his back, and if they are not off they are there still.

  30. Bell and Jamison started out well before dawn with a favorable wind and tide, in the small launch the wizened Welshman placed at their disposal.

  31. The keeper was a wizened little Welshman from the Chibut who spoke English with an extraordinary mixture of a Spanish intonation and a Cimbrian accent.

  32. I looked again and could scarcely believe my eyes, for there, seated at its head, gazing from the old man to myself, was the monkey Pehtes, with an expression of terror upon his wizened little face.

  33. The two attendants, who were small, thin, and wizened almost beyond belief, immediately began to anoint my face and hands with some sweet-smelling essences taken from the bottles they had brought with them.

  34. A door suddenly flew open out of what appeared to be solid wall at the end of the corridor, and a little, wizened man darted out of it, like a rabbit out of its burrow.

  35. The counsel is good," said the Duke of Athens, turning his shrewd wizened face to the King; "but one thing only I would add to it.

  36. Nay, say no more about that," growled an old wizened bowman, with a brown-parchment skin and little beady eyes.

  37. She looks far more guilty than he," muttered a wizened old man next to us, very crooked on his three-legged stool.

  38. Now, in all this, no one, not even the wizened old man who was obviously the humorist of the tribune, had seen anything farcical.

  39. And his wizened countenance looked at her almost kindly from beneath its dirty crown of bandages.

  40. In the half-light David could see the tears coursing down the little wizened face.

  41. Their bones were gelatinous, however wizened their poor flesh.

  42. The little woman had an anxious, wizened face.

  43. Her wizened old face was lit up with a curious mixture of surprise, pleasure, and alarm when she saw Silas coming gingerly on tiptoe down the long ward to see her.

  44. The doctor took off his eye-shade and showed his little wizened face rather paler than usual.

  45. His little wizened face looked ghastly in the dim light of the hall, but his voice was firm, and his hand did not tremble.

  46. He glanced at Jerry beside him and was startled by the intense emotion showing upon his little wizened face.

  47. Stemm was hardly more than five feet high, and was a wizened dry old man, with a very old yellow wig.

  48. Perhaps it might tho'," said the little wizened man in a corner, whose gin and water apparently did not comfort him.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wizened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.