Use withered in a sentence
Sentences starting with withered
- Withered laurel-wreaths, tied with long ribbons, fluttered over the mantel-piece; one had fallen, dropped over the bald head of Julius Caesar, and rested on the breast. [10]
Sentences ending with withered
- Such is the story, and I can only suppose that the sweet little cherub who sits up aloft had taken special charge of it, or it would have long ago withered. [6]
- He, the Risen One, gives new light, and life, and blossom, and verdure to all that is darkened, dead and withered. [10]
- She lifted the light cover and found, first, a few dried flowers; then a ball, round which some skilful hand had wreathed roses and leaves, once fresh and bright, now, alas, long ago dead and withered. [10]
- I looked long, but I found no leaf, neither green nor withered. [11]
Short sentences using withered
- Have we withered or agonised? [11]
- He withered under her words. [11]
Sentences containing withered two or more times
- And I watched the falling leaves; and I saw my leaf, and it was withered, but only a little withered, and so I live yet a little. [11]
More example sentences with the word withered in them
- Her soul seemed withered, parched, torpid, like a corn-field on which a poisonous mildew has fallen; yet it had once been green and blooming. [10]
- She said granny-aunt's withered old face had two red spots come to it, as if she had been painting her cheeks from a pink saucer. [6]
- My days they withered like rootless things, And the sands rolled on, rolled wide; Like a pelican I, with broken wings, Like a drifting barque on the tide. [11]
- He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her. [10]
- How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! [6]
- My heart was withered and shrunk with exile and sorrow, but I feel that it expands--it beats more joyfully now that there is a hope of vengeance. [10]
- Before they realized where they were, they had nearly crossed the Bellegarde estate, and the house itself was come into view, standing high on the slope above the withered garden. [9]
- Very well, then what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a lean and withered old age? [5]
- And so there was no parting, for in his fancy I went with him; he knew not but I went with him, my hand in his--my young soft hand, not this withered claw. [5]
- The aunts glanced up, and withered in their clothes--there stood the doctor, his face a thunder-cloud. [5]
- David's figure seemed to shrink for a moment, his face had a withered look, and his head fell forward in a mood of terrible dejection. [11]
- In a moment, they came tottering in; he, bent and withered and bald; she blooming with wholesome old age. [5]
- Where did all these withered leaves come from in the month of June? [10]
- They saw only the yellow sand, the ever-receding oasis, the brackish, undrinkable water, the withered and fruitless date- tree, handfuls of dourha for their food by day, and the keen, sharp night to chill their half-dead bodies in a half-waking sleep. [11]
- Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. [5]
- He looks always the same--old, and withered, and hollow-eyed, and listless, save that there is about him something which seems to suggest that he is looking for some one, expecting some one--the friends of his youth, perhaps. [5]
- They had seen the Colonel angry before, but now they were fairly withered under his wrath. [9]
- Gradually but surely, that tiresome old anecdote has sapped my strength, undermined my constitution, withered my life. [5]
- It was said that the sum expended in flowers alone, which withered in a night, would have endowed a ward in a charity hospital. [4]
- Before Uarda could take it, the withered petals fell, and dropped upon her. [10]
- And the sister's sweet withered face was reminiscent of a missal, one bright with colour, and still shining faintly. [9]
- From another corner stole a withered hag with streaming grey hair and malignant eyes. [5]
- An abundance of soft, but disordered reddish fair hair, in which clung a few withered flowers, fell over the lap of the old woman and on to the mat where she lay. [10]
- Then at last, slowly, and with no roughness, as the terror- stricken impostor shrank and withered, he cut the cords. [11]
- All in a single moment these things have withered to dirt, dust, ashes. [5]
- They had long since got clear of the smoke and furnaces, except in one or two solitary instances, where a factory planted among fields withered the space about it, like a burning mountain. [12]
- In a senseless self-denial I should gradually have, withered into a meaningless old maid, with no opinions of my own, and no more definite purpose in life than to write checks for charities. [9]
- The laurel now rustled on his curls like withered leaves. [10]
- Then those gentlemen rose up; and whereas I looked in the face of the worthy notary meseemed it was as withered grass well bedewed with rain; and glad assurance beamed on me from his goodly and noble features. [10]
- Before the litters reached the little castle a gust of wind rose, driving large drops of rain, straw, and withered leaves-Barbara could not imagine whence they came in the month of May--into her face. [10]
- The hands that opened its drawers had grown withered, shrivelled, and at last been folded in death. [6]
- She took out one of the withered flowers, and then as caressingly put it back beside the others, and closed the locket. [9]
- Came there, no one knew where from, and lived with his mother, a little withered old woman, on a little cleared patch up in the hills, in a comfortable sort of shanty. [4]
- As it swept on with its cloud of frost, bearing down the dry twigs and boughs and withered leaves, and carrying them away pell-mell, it seemed as though some general sympathy had got abroad, and everything was in a hurry, like themselves. [12]
- He was sitting on the seat the old prince used to like to sit on, and beside him strips of bast were hanging on the broken and withered branch of a magnolia. [2]
- The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell. [5]
- The mother was old and small and withered, and they said evil-eyed. [4]
- A great deal of the best writing the languages of the world have ever known has been committed to leaves that withered out of sight before a second sunlight had fallen upon them. [6]
- There were houses of stone, houses of red brick, houses of yellow brick, houses of lath and plaster; and houses of wood, many of them very old, with withered faces carved upon the beams, and staring down into the street. [12]
- The lower part of his face seems withered, and the upper-even the beautiful lofty brow--is furrowed by deep wrinkles. [10]
- All the years of deadening hope had not availed to kill the craving--even in this withered body it was still alive and quick. [9]
- What first caught my eye was a couple of withered Indian scalps that hung by their long locks from his girdle. [9]
- Its coming on most frequently at the season when the brush fires which are consuming the dead branches, and withered leaves, and all the refuse of vegetation are sending up their smoke is suggestive. [6]
- Strange as it may seem, these words of a withered old creature, whose palm had to be crossed with silver to bring forth her oracular response, have always clung to my memory as if they were destined to fulfilment. [6]
- Ismail will be like a withered gourd. [11]
- His pleasure in life had withered with the growth of the harsh conviction that he was no longer loved by any one for his own sake. [10]
- At last she laid her hand on the lid to close it; but hesitated and took up a packet of letters that had lain amid several gold and silver coins, given by godmothers and godfathers, modest trinkets, and a withered rose. [10]
- We did not know whether to smile or to drop a tear, as we contemplated these baits hung out to tempt the coins from the exiguous purses of ancient maidens, forlorn widows, withered annuitants, stranded humanity in every stage of shipwrecked penury. [6]
- Half my new joy is withered now. [5]
- 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! [5]
- She felt as if her heart had till now been benighted and dark, and had just disclosed some latent light--as if it had been withered and dry, and was now blossoming in fresh verdure and brightly-colored flowers. [10]
- The freedman and his companions had broken it up and fed the flames with withered boughs, the torn garments of the murdered man, and dry sea-weed. [10]
- And it is hard indeed to the stricken heart to look for a new spring for the withered harvest of joy. [10]
- His face was grey and lined with wrinkles, like pumice-stone, but large bright eyes lent meaning and attraction to the withered countenance. [10]
- She withered and grew cold under the torture of it all--the ruthless spoliation of everything which made life worth while or the past endurable. [11]
- Stripped of the green magnolias and the cane, the banks of clay stood forth in hideous yellow nakedness, save for a lonely stunted growth, or a bare trunk that still stood tottering on the edge of a banks its pitiful withered roots reaching out below. [9]
- But the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Iverson] gave us a second speech yesterday, all well considered and put down in writing, in which Van Buren was scathed and withered a "few" for his present position and movements. [7]
- When we look for them the next morning, do we not find them withered leaves? [6]
- The linden, with foliage withered by the autumn blasts, was more like the same tree in the spring when the birds were singing in its boughs, than yonder absorbed supplicant resembled the bold Heinz of a few days ago. [10]
- In a swift flash of thought she saw her own home with its wealth and splendor, and then the ship-builder's house-simple, chillingly bare, with its comfortless rooms; she felt as though she must perish, nipped and withered, in such a home. [10]
- They gathered the fallen leaves that dropped of themselves from that withered tree--the French army--and sometimes shook that tree itself. [2]
- Strange that the face which in anger withered cowards and made men look grave, was capable of such infinite tenderness,--tenderness and sorrow. [9]
- Behold these sad eyes, these sunken cheeks, this withered frame! [5]
- My old withered dry eyes are full of tears yet. [7]
- Gold turned to dirt in an unenchanted atmosphere, food withered away and vanished. [5]
- I could not die--my hand was like a withered leaf; it could not strike; my heart poured out like water. [11]
- Her sisters, Mrs. Cutts and Mrs. Washington, are like two merry wives of Windsor; but as to Jemmy Madison,--oh, poor Jemmy!--he is but a withered little apple john. [4]
- Possibly some withered cheeks may flush faintly as they recall the handsome young man who came before the Cantabridge maidens fully equipped for a hero of romance when the century was in its first quarter. [6]
- It withered a cactus that stood lifting its prickly hands aloft beside the trail. [5]
- A grey-beard's withered brain recommends it to be thrown across the stream, and the idea just suits this pitiful son of a great father, who would certainly never have shunned swimming through the wildest whirlpool, especially when revenge was to be sought. [10]
- Frowning with vexation at the effort necessary to divest himself of his coat and trousers, the prince undressed, sat down heavily on the bed, and appeared to be meditating as he looked contemptuously at his withered yellow legs. [2]
- His purse was at his side, his mantle was for me, For any who passeth were his mantle and his purse, And now like a gourd is he withered from our eyes. [11]
- Say only this: A tender bud, That tried to blossom in the snow, Lies withered where the violets blow. [6]
- Her death was a peaceful and happy one, for Zeno held her withered hand, and talked to her of the days when she had dressed him in his beautiful light-blue frocks. [10]
- But methought that "little" must have had some strange meaning, inasmuch as the housewife's withered cheeks were of the color of a robin's breast. [10]
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