"Shrivelled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in Edinburgh, two days later, they passed under the West Port, which was decorated with the shrivelled heads and hands of several martyrs, and made their way to the Grassmarket, which they had to traverse in going towards Candlemaker Row. Here they found a large crowd surrounding the gallows-tree which did such frequent ...
— Hunted and Harried • R.M. Ballantyne
... from the mouldering wall; hawks, magpies, and jays hung in tattered remnants! but all grey, and even green, with age; and the heads of birds in plenteous rows, nailed beak upward, and so dried and shrivelled by the suns and winds and frosts of many seasons, that their ...
— Venetia • Benjamin Disraeli
... wet through, covered her head and shoulders clingingly, that this was the funeral of a poor peasant-man and his wife, who had both died suddenly and both on the same day. The old woman held up her brown, shrivelled hands, and gesticulated pityingly with them in the pouring rain, as she mumbled her hurried tale of sorrow; while the postilion involuntarily slackened pace, that her words might be heard where he and the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various
... Sarah that a beam of it struck the angel, and made him look up. In the act of turning toward her, he heard her laugh within herself:[148] "Is it possible that these bowels can yet bring forth a child, these shrivelled breasts give suck? And though I should be able to bear, yet is not ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
... next day, a shrivelled and aged David, but with a fighting fire in his eyes and a careful smile at the station for the group of friends who ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
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