It had aged to keep sad company with his own withered features.
He sat with his eyes bent down, and as she went towards him she thought he looked smaller—he seemed so withered and shrunken.
" "These would be very strong considerations," said Lydgate, half ironically—still there was a withered paleness about his lips as he looked at his coffee, and did not drink—"these would be very strong considerations if I did not happen to be in debt.
And now she pictured to herself the days, and months, and years which she must spend in sorting what might be called shattered mummies, and fragments of a tradition which was itself a mosaic wrought from crushed ruins—sorting them as food for a theory which was already withered in the birth like an elfin child.
He had that withered sort of paleness which will sometimes come on young faces, and his hand was very cold when she shook it.
What was life worth—what great faith was possible when the whole effect of one's actions could be withered up into such parched rubbish as that?
Bobbie planted rose-bushes in her garden, but all the little new leaves of the rose-bushes shrivelled and withered, perhaps because she moved them from the other part of the garden in May, which is not at all the right time of year for moving roses.
" The gaoler nodded grimly, laying his withered hand on the shoulder of the miserable Toad.
Delighted with her progress, and fearful of wearying her with too much wisdom at once, Henry suffered the subject to decline, and by an easy transition from a piece of rocky fragment and the withered oak which he had placed near its summit, to oaks in general, to forests, the enclosure of them, waste lands, crown lands and government, he shortly found himself arrived at politics; and from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
May scorched and withered; March was restless, and could be hard and cold in its brightness; but April came along softly like a blessing, and if it were a fine April it was so beautiful that it was impossible not to feel different, not to feel stirred and touched.
By and by Joe timidly ventured upon a roundabout "feeler" as to how the others might look upon a return to civilization—not right now, but— Tom withered him with derision!
The corner of her mouth, where one looks first, is almost withered up.
You belong to neither, leaves have withered.
You belong to neither, leaves have withered.
For that on blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods.
When the last withered petal dropped, all the joyful admirationfor the hibiscus sank into oblivion as if nothing was left, untilthe landscape was again ablaze with the red plum blossom to remindpeople of life's alternation and continuance.
The mask looked like the face of a withered old man with stringy white hair, so that I must have looked like an undertaker.
Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen, our ability to pay has fallen; ;;; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; ; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; ; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; ; farmers find no markets for their produce, and the savings of many years and thousands of families are gone.
When the last withered petal dropped, all the joyful admiration for the hibiscus sank into oblivion as if nothing was left, until the landscape was again ablaze with the red plum blossom to remind people of life's alternation and continuance.
With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep.
