From the beginning, it seemed that this stooped, wizened old man didn't consider himself to be important at all. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
I'd hoped that he'd wizen up, and end the campaign in style. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative Group To Run Anti-Wright Ads On National Networks Through Election Day] Reference
The small wizen-faced man smiled, as Moslems say, the smile of Umar. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
When their crier, a small wizen-faced man, began the Azan with a voice. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The littlest, wizen-edest, tiniest little old woman as ever I set eyes on. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
The little creature hid her wizen face in her withered little hands and sobbed. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] Reference
His blinking eyes were steady, and his wizen face had become suddenly composed. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
The firelight rose and fell on his wizen little face and his nervous, drooping hands. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
"Seems ter me," whined a wizen old lady, "thet the girls knows somethin 'about it, too!". From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies] Reference
His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen, cruel face pallid in the ghostly light. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
His eyes were dim; his hair had turned completely grey; his face was wizen; his figure had shrunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
He looked dazedly at wizen-faced lads who gathered round ice-cream stalls, and at hungry folks who ate stewed peas. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Those flies better wizen up or they are all going to have their lives shortened by a few days. posted by John @ 6:21 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference
There was no mistaking the sudden flutter and agitation in his manner, and the heightened color in his wizen little face. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
I told him something -- something that made his crabbed old soul wizen up, something that scared the daylights out of him. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
The old miller rubbed his wizen cheeks and smoothed the wisps of hair on his chin, nervously as a young man does his mustache. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
“Get ye out, Mr. Polonius!” said the old lady, a little wizen-faced old lady, with her face puckered up in a million of wrinkles. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference
At length a small wizen-faced man appeared from below. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in a Boat] Reference
"Without hesitation I do, -- the old wizen-face Gayarre.". From Wordnik.com. [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference
"Hyde Park!" screamed the little wizen man with the gin and water. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph the Heir] Reference
One was tall and stalwart; the other was small, and wizen, and misshapen. From Wordnik.com. [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference
His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
'What's a little wizen chap like you good for, except to get yer neck broken?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea] Reference
There 's a young feller 'round here, Betsy, as wants ter look out fer his wizen. From Wordnik.com. [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference
Blamy, a feeble, wizen little man, dressed in a shabby tweed suit, covered with white dust. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Waters] Reference
DUKE: Askin 'yer pardon, Captain, bein' as it was me as smelled him out, won 't yer let me slit his wizen?. From Wordnik.com. [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference
I had read all the epitaphs when the wooden gate creaked on its hinges, and admitted a wizen little old man. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
"Oh, the brute!" chuckled the wizen youth, "without prostitutes and public-houses! what a world to live in!". From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
He is a small, wizen-faced man, quiet, self-contained, and fond -- exceedingly fond -- of having his own way. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
Senate wants America in the present distraction of nations to stop thinking of the others, wizen up and be safe. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak] Reference
"Get ye out, Mr. Polonius!" said the old lady, a little wizen-faced old lady, with her face puckered up in a million of wrinkles. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference
Old Jacques -- a wizen little habitant -- was distressed at the news, and ran off instantly to harness up his old mare, and sled. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel] Reference
Old Mary Antony below, playing her favourite game, also paused, and pricked up her ears: then filliped the wizen pea, which stood for. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
She was a wizen little woman with a mischievous face, a quick tongue, a nimble foot, a talent for business, and an uncertain disposition. From Wordnik.com. [After Dark] Reference
Oh, that wizen-faced little lawyer that lives on the Tom Dorgans and the Nance Oldens, who don't know which way to turn to get the money!. From Wordnik.com. [In the Bishop's Carriage] Reference
I've been waiting for this night as long as you have been; and now to go back there, and wizen and dry up, when I might be married to John. From Wordnik.com. [What Every Woman Knows] Reference
Between these isolated articles of furniture, and behind an unpainted table sat, in a high-backed chair, a wizen and shabbily-clad old man. From Wordnik.com. [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference
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