Shrivelled

Examples

• The curtain drew up--shrivelled to the ceiling: the bright lights, the long room, the gay throng, burst upon us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Contempt fell cool on Mr. Rochester--his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked--What have _you_ to say? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was not merely that they were weazened and shrivelled--though they were certainly that too--but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• An Italian was grinding an organ before the shop, and a miserable little shrivelled monkey was sitting on the instrument. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All was shrivelled and dried up, except these lights; her voice too was fearfully changed, as she spoke to me at intervals. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I clasped her shrivelled hand: Are you indeed so ill? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Every green leaf, every blade of grass and blade of grain, was as shrivelled and poor as the miserable people. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The shrivelled voice of the heath did not alarm him, for that was familiar. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was very odd to see what old letters Charley's young hand had made, they so wrinkled, and shrivelled, and tottering, it so plump and round. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Perpetual fear had jaundiced his complexion, and shrivelled his whole person. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr. George, says Grandfather Smallweed with a tremulous wave of his shrivelled hand, this is the gentleman, sir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• For a time the Concert of Europe struggled valiantly to carry on upon the old lines, but the French Revolution had shrivelled the heart of monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Edited by Elise