"Shriveled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the jungle, where she found the pious man faint with thirst, shriveled with hunger, and half dead with heat and cold. She cautiously put out the fire. Then, having prepared a confection, she approached from behind and rubbed upon his lips a little of the sweetmeat, which he licked up with great relish. Thereupon she made more and gave it to ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton
... were some cold, sharp frosts, so that the tomato and other vines were all shriveled up when Hal and Mab went out to the garden to ...
— Daddy Takes Us to the Garden - The Daddy Series for Little Folks • Howard R. Garis
... great mass was an abortive miniature of a body—soft, shriveled abdomen, almost nonexistent chest, and tiny, sticklike legs that trailed helplessly along the floor as the termites—in the manner of two men who support a helpless third man ...
— The Raid on the Termites • Paul Ernst
... you. He said: 'When I feel age creeping upon me I am deeply grieved, for I cannot bear to go away and leave the world with so much misery in it.'" So long as Shaftesbury lived, England beheld a standing rebuke of all wrong and injustice. How many iniquities shriveled up in his presence! This man, representing the noblest ancestry, wealth and culture, wrought numberless reforms. He became a voice for the poor and weak. He gave his life to reform acts and corn laws; he emancipated the enslaved boys and girls toiling in mines and factories; he exposed ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
... I was in earnest, took a match, wet it, an' held it in a dark corner. "The goat was painted with that," sez he, an' I saw it all, an' I—well, I just natchly shriveled. I thought it all over. "Well, then," sez I, "what was the thing that gave the spirit ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason
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