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shrivelled
1. The shrubs and bushes are similarly smitten, the fruits shrivelled on the branches
2. shrivelled with the harsh, southern sun
3. “Tell me about it I feel like a joint of beef that’s been basted in the oven and I will tell you something else if we have to stay here for another hour or so I will be a shrivelled joint and no messing
4. Seas can be evaporated and living creatures are struck with an enormous power, greater than the lightening from the skies, and shrivelled to ashes in seconds
5. " My stomach shrivelled up
6. eyebrows and shrivelled skin on his hands to a smooth, waxy finish
7. Man with a Shrivelled Hand
8. He shrivelled up his nose and put his face
9. my shrivelled and decaying carcass would wash up upon in a
10. His legs ceased their swinging and the shrivelled, emaciated husk that had once been Lewem, dropped to the floor
11. There was no point in beating herself up about matters outside of her control, yet with the shrivelled image of Lewem still in her thoughts, she could not stem the tide of pity that she still felt for those poor souls left behind
12. that she was consumed and shrivelled with heat; her blood
13. If I’d been in a room alone with one of these women I'd have shrivelled away in fear she’d expect me to have sex with her
14. Murray was twisted in a heap in the corner, hands grabbing at his mouth and stomach, head thrown back, eyes wide…’ Ralf’s voice shrivelled
15. Its slavering black fangs were near his throat and the glare of its yellow eyes shrivelled his limbs as a killing wind shrivels young corn
16. Cold winters with the thermometer mercury shrivelled to nothing had always been a sore point with the CSIS Director who had never forgotten the fact he had been born in the West Bengal resort town of Darjeeling in the Lower Himalayas where the weather was
17. to buy a tree and see it stunted and shrivelled
18. In the dim light of the cabin, they saw a shrivelled up old woman lying on a bed
19. ’ By the time the hat was returned all the leaves had shrivelled
20. senses have shrivelled, all the influences and impressions (sanskar) he
21. I couldn’t really believe my eyes as the bullet hit Theo he simply shrivelled
22. Do you realize what a blow in the face she has received, as well as in her unfortunate little heart? All her vanities, without which a girl is but a poor thing, shrivelled up, her self-respect gone, her conceit, if there was any, and I suppose there was because there always is, gone headlong after it
23. It was while I was reflecting on their probable scorched and shrivelled condition, and at the same time was eagerly passing him some butter that I don't think he wanted but that I was frantically afraid he might want, that my zealous arm swept the milk-jug off the table, and it fell on the varnished floor, and with a hideous clatter of what seemed like malicious satisfaction smashed itself to atoms
24. It was the most burningly critical look that has ever shrivelled my flesh
25. Shrivelled, she was thinking
26. That live-wire, that over-rider of any and every obstacle, now sitting shrivelled on a seat in Battersea Park, doing nothing
27. Yes; there was Job, just as George had described him, white haired and shrivelled, sitting under the lamp at the other end of the long room, and the dog, no longer barking but watching her with bright eyes, upright on its haunches beside him
28. Strong in the knowledge of tourist ignorance when it came to real language in Italian, he said exactly what he thought; and what he thought was so monstrous, so inappropriate to beadles and to the atmosphere of a crypt, besides being so extremely and personally rude, that it roused Ingram, who knew Italian almost better than the beadle--for his included scholarly by-ways in vituperation, strange and curious twists beyond the reach of the uneducated--to pour a sudden great burning blast of red-hot contumely down on to his head; and having done this he turned, and holding Ingeborg's hand led her up the steps again, leaving the beadle at the bottom, solitary, shrivelled, and singed
29. It was also clear that he was almost blind; the lids of his eyes were shrivelled and dry and he kept wiping them with a moist cloth
30. the charred remains of his mother he held her shrivelled hand as he wept into it
31. haired, dry shrivelled skin
32. He shrivelled inside, fighting sobs
33. All of them had shrivelled as if they had
34. She didn't know how long she soaked in the water for, but when her skin had shrivelled like a prune's and the water had turned Luke warm, Holly pulled the plug
35. The chateau burned; the nearest trees, laid hold of by the fire, scorched and shrivelled; trees at a distance, fired by the four fierce figures, begirt the blazing edifice with a new forest of smoke
36. But I could not counteract Nature's law that everything shall beget its like; and what, then, could this sterile, illtilled wit of mine beget but the story of a dry, shrivelled, whimsical offspring, full of thoughts of all sorts and such as never came into any other imagination--just what might be begotten in a prison, where every misery is lodged and every doleful sound makes its dwelling?
37. Her face, healthier than her sister's, was all puckers and creases, like a shrivelled red apple, and her hair, braided in the same old-fashioned way, had not lost its ripe nut colour
38. She looked him in the eye, and he shrivelled
39. More than once—nay, more than a hundred times—he had actually spoken! Spoken! But how? He had told his hearers that he was altogether vile, a viler companion of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an abomination, a thing of unimaginable iniquity; and that the only wonder was, that they did not see his wretched body shrivelled up before their eyes, by the burning wrath of the Almighty! Could there be plainer speech than this? Would not the
40. All his strength and energy—all his vital and intellectual force—seemed at once to desert him; insomuch that he positively withered up, shrivelled away, and almost vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun
41. But he was surprised to see a shrivelled old hag or two, of whose existence within the walls of his house he had not been aware
42. Near the kitchen was a well surrounded by a curb, with a pulley fastened to a bent iron rod clasped by a vine whose leaves were withered, reddened, and shrivelled by the season
43. His hot breath shrivelled the grass before the door, and drove in through the crack they had left and scorched them as they lay hid
44. grass was scorched and shrivelled, as if flames had swept the hill-top; but
45. The sullen shrivelled leaves of a past
46. the agony of Gollum's shrivelled mind and body, enslaved to that Ring,
47. Frodo looked down at the body with pity and horror, for as he looked it seemed that long years of death were suddenly revealed in it, and it shrank, and the shrivelled face became rags of skin upon a hideous skull
48. They looked as if they had leaped, snapped upright in their graves, clutched hands over their shrivelled bosoms and screamed, jaws wide, tongues out, nostrils flared
49. The words of the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, beneath the hot iron of the executioner
50. Rochester—his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked—“What have