The veno~n in his expression shrivelled the saliva in my mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penalty]

The rue Soly was like an illness to him; the very word shrivelled his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirteen] Reference

The word that grabs is "shrivelled" – sums it all up really.    From Wordnik.com.  [A shrivelled campaign] Reference

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will today accuse the coalition of having a "shrivelled".    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

He ---- "The last word shrivelled on her lips, which puckered into a confused smile at the warning frown of her brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of a Western Town] Reference

He -- -- "The last word shrivelled on her lips, which puckered into a confused smile at the warning frown of her brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of a western town] Reference

Or be shrivelled and die in the drought of His wrath?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

Now 'tis shrunken, and shrivelled, and that's why I sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference

Penalty of 1/2 point for every nut with shrivelled kernel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

Monkton fell, and their lines shrivelled up under our fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

I shrivelled visibly under the look of scorn she cast upon me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference

A little, apple-faced, shrivelled-looking man was waiting for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

A strange, shrivelled creature seemed to have taken possession of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

The number of empty nuts or nuts with shrivelled kernels in the sample.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

But the poor, helpless hands lay white and shrivelled in the woman's lap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

Dribble ran down the corners of the mouth of the shrivelled-up old woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Early, Too Late] Reference

It seems to have shrivelled by its great age, like its oldest inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

The whole figure was there, it is true, but shrivelled and blackened by age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

"Ay; and as grey as my beard," put in another, a little, shrivelled old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

I promptly shrivelled up to nothing, and developed acute suspended animation.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference

In spite of his fish-distended anatomy, the Wildcat shrivelled to boy's size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

The sinews of war are gradually becoming shrivelled in the arm of the rebellion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

"When you get up again, he will have a whole army of shrivelled monsters ready for you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

"Rejoice with me, Jentele," said the delighted husband, as he rubbed his shrivelled hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

M'Iver was with her, and my resolution shrivelled and shook within me like an old nut kernel.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

I shall be shrivelled up to nothing for want of nourishing earth, and shall do good to no one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables from Flowers] Reference

Empty or shrivelled nuts in a sample are a serious defect which should count heavily against it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

My blood became fevered; my brain seemed on fire; my shrunk and shrivelled tongue, was like a dry stick in my mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

His shrivelled features became smooth, his nostrils expanded; it was indeed, as he said himself, "a feast for the eyes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Over this he spread some of the wet dulse, which soon crackled and shrivelled up, sending forth a rich and fragrant steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

He smiled approvingly at a shrivelled form with hobbling gait; but from the fat and the rubicund he turned with severest frown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

Mammon has left some hearts that he has not shrivelled, some eyes that he has not blinded, some hands that he has not fettered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference

Some samples of the varieties Ten Eyck and Thomas contained empty nuts and shrivelled kernels which would preclude equal scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

In southern England, outside London, the number of Labour MPs has shrivelled back to the pre-Blair levels of rump representation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The leadership contenders sneer at Tony Blair at their peril. He knew how to win] Reference

Sitting by the bed, Sandy took the cold, shrivelled fingers in his warm young ones, and the comforting touch focussed the wavering mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference