Our grain withers in the fields. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall « A Fly in Amber] Reference
When Carmel itself "withers," how utter the desolation!. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Fatah could gain new credibility while Hamas withers. From Wordnik.com. [A Chanukah Miracle?] Reference
When an evil microbe finds no foothold it withers away. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Set them side by side in moist earth and notice which withers. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
French horses, stinging them like serpents through the withers. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
When you speak low, a hot summer day withers away too soon, too soon. From Wordnik.com. [Smokey Robinson: A Classic Sings the Classics] Reference
The love that has nothing but beauty to sustain it, soon withers away. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Swish! came the whip down on the withers of the late frisky runaway, and. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
The love that has nothing but beauty to sustain it, soon withers and dies. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
What wonder that the tree withers when its roots are watered with corrosives. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
Its seed is in itself; while it decays it germinates; as it withers, it grows. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Young Man Absalom Safe? A Sermon Preached in The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Stoke Bishop, on Sunday, July 19th, 1885] Reference
Small wonder that their withers were fearfully wrung, and their wails piteous. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Truth bends before falsehood, and virtue withers under the rust of slandering tongues. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
But as support for affirmative action withers, reliance on such tests will only increase. From Wordnik.com. [Living With The Tests] Reference
If a segment of the economy kills the flow of cash, the whole economy withers on the vine. From Wordnik.com. [Joe The Nerd Ferraro: Greed Motivation and the Bush Tax Bomb] Reference
We should not delay the surgical treatment of abscesses in the regions of the poll and withers. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
What will they look like in 50 years 'time as skin weathers and wrinkles and ultimately withers?. From Wordnik.com. [Anita Diamant: My (Jewish) Daughter's Tattoo] Reference
Then I made him lay down and did the same thing myself, using his withers and mane for a pillow. From Wordnik.com. [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference
Life is made up to most of us of little things, and many a friendship withers through sheer neglect. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Pierre smiled grimly in response and leaned forward, shifting his weight more over the withers of Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
This is of special importance on premises where several horses develop fistulous withers and poll evil. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Sagas is drawn, and when it is cut off from these the Saga withers into a conventional and insipid romance. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Her son can't resist telling him a thing or two, his patriarchal stiffness making it so hard to clean his withers. From Wordnik.com. [The Oscars] Reference
Berlusconi insists his government is stable, but many see his hold on power weakening as his personal image withers. From Wordnik.com. [Italy PM Faces Uncertain Political Future After Split With Ally] Reference
Of all the companies doing a general business in the East, the Guardian had come through least scathed, its withers unwrung. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Here, too, were young girls, children with an aged, worn look, like the fruit that withers to half its size before it ripens. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
They were mounted upon mules, were seated far forward upon the withers, and had their knees drawn up after a most ungainly fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
Polls show Americans back relatively benign gay-rights issues, such as equal job opportunities, but on family matters, support withers. From Wordnik.com. [The Limits Of Tolerance?] Reference
Smart lad, to slip betimes awayFrom fields were glory does not stayAnd early though the laurel growsIt withers quicker than the rose. —. From Wordnik.com. [To an Athlete Dying Young] Reference
Accordingly, one part of man's nature may grow while another withers; and one part may be fed and strengthened at the expense of another. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Eleanor is about to demur, when she catches Mr. Quinton's expression, and his look withers the words on her tongue, and forces them back. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
They argued that when the economy withers, the government needs to react like any responsible family and cut spending to pay down its debt. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: The Demands of the Deficit Hawks Won't Cure - They'll Kill] Reference
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