There is no need to remove them, they just shrivel during cooking. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Without it, Neeson says, "I'd shrivel up and die.". From Wordnik.com. [A Touch Of The Poet] Reference
His eyes were open: smoky glass beads beginning to shrivel. From Wordnik.com. [Fiction with Teratoma Preserves] Reference
It began to shrivel a bit on the dresser, losing its gleam. From Wordnik.com. [SEPARATION ANXIETY] Reference
PLC's holdings of Irish government debt appeared to shrivel to. From Wordnik.com. [Bank Sovereign-Debt Disclosures Get Muddied] Reference
When fully ripe, the stem will turn brown, and shrivel somewhat. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference
The air must not be too dry, as dryness causes them to shrivel up. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
When set up and dried they shrivel, and are seldom modelled nicely. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
It would also be bad for stocks, because corporate profits would shrivel. From Wordnik.com. [Reality Bites] Reference
Brazen faith might well shrivel when an evangelical's job in on the line. From Wordnik.com. [D. Michael Lindsay, Ph.D.: How America's Evangelical Leaders Wield Power] Reference
Then only will these poor miserable prowlers shrivel up and crawl under ground. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
The flowers usually open but once, and the petals shrivel up as the flower fades. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
CRAFTSSmall Wonder There's just something about watching stuff shrivel that never gets old. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The insects shrivel in drying, and assume the form of irregular grains, fluted and concave. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The flowering and fruitful plants shrivel and wither and prepare to die with the coming cold. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Henes: Autumn: Season of Ripe Maturity] Reference
To obviate this, drop glycerin in the ear which absorbs water, and will thus shrivel the seed. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
"As strong as they look, they will shrivel right up and fall apart" if not kept wet, Riess said. From Wordnik.com. [Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site] Reference
Scrooge shrugged his shoulders and seemed to shrivel at the thought of these horrible institutions. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
The Labour member, who was originally thrown abroad in his usual pompous fashion, began to shrivel. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Why, those three rascals would just shrivel, and throw up the sponge, if they saw us break in on 'em. From Wordnik.com. [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference
I'm tired of working out in this heat every day, waiting for my skin to shrivel up like a dried peach. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
The nuts on the trees were frozen solid and mostly turned black within a few days and began to shrivel. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
Last week the salesman at a Wall Street printing company watched his nest egg shrivel to half its value. From Wordnik.com. [Big Blue's Shareholders: Seeing Red] Reference
Tiny parallelograms, each with a facility to shrivel or stretch, to concertina and overlap their neighbour. From Wordnik.com. [Death Masking Love] Reference
Dreamers make no confidences; they shrivel up into themselves and are caught away on the four winds of heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The mirror adds weight to your already sagging breasts, the wrinkles shrivel your forehead; you wipe your brow. From Wordnik.com. [Wrinkles, Men and Shades of Gray] Reference
Get them to eat poison, or drown them and shrivel them up in spirit and you may settle them, but not otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
And the illustration, you almost feel like the ogre is, indeed, starting to shrivel and his big hand is shaking. From Wordnik.com. ['Phantom Tollbooth' Creators Reunited By An 'Ogre'] Reference
Conventionalities are all very well in their proper place, but they shrivel at the touch of nature like stubble in the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
"Probably it sinks into the cracks or fissures which form in the crust of the planet when it begins to shrivel up with the cold.". From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
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