The heat, however, is sufficient to kill the trees, and in a few years the bark shrivels and falls off.

In the cold of autumn days Each plant shrivels and decays.

But now the blue wall is girdling the very crest of the hill; it stops, shrivels.

In the form of its leaves and blossoms it strongly resembles the peach-tree, and is included in the same genus by botanists; but the fruit, instead of presenting a delicious pulp like the peach, shrivels up as it ripens, and becomes only a tough coriaceous covering to the stone inclosing the eatable kernel, which is surrounded by a thin bitter skin.

They should be simmered till the fruit shrivels, when they should be strained from the juice.

And what if ospreys, cormorants, herons cry, Amid tempestuous vapours driving by, 255 Or hovering over wastes too bleak to rear That common growth of earth, the foodful ear; [70] Where the green apple shrivels on the spray, And pines the unripened pear in summer's kindliest ray; Contentment shares the desolate domain 260 With Independence, child of high Disdain.

he said"dance on thy red shoes, till thou art pale and cold, and till thy body shrivels to a skeleton.

They do not like rough winds, and the glare of the sun shrivels them up.

The soul, encased by a wall of adamantine circumstances, and driven around a track of unvarying duties, shrivels, or gets diseased.

The air in the hollow stems of grasses, and of some umbelliferous plants, bears analogy to the air in the quills, and in some of the bones of birds; supplying the place of the pith, which shrivels up after it has performed its office of protruding the young stem or feather.

a feeling which, in the throng and press of real life, soon shrivels up to nothing, getting, at every step, a painful démenti.

" "And if not?" "Well, if not," said Mr. Bell, measuring his words, "do you recollect that wild-cat gold mine scheme you were interested in more years ago than you'll care to remember?" Mortlake seemed to shrivel.

I have a friend who, if you treat him with disrespect, shrivels you up with a sarcastic wag of his right ear.

Treated in that way it shrivels up at once, and when compared with the results of other causes of death, looks quite insignificant.

Sealskins must never be dried by a heater or stove as the heat shrivels them and they are ruined.

Shortly after contact with the wind the muscles of the sufferer become rigid and contracted, the skin shrivels, a terrible sensation as if the skin were on fire pervades the whole frame, while, in the last stage, the skin cracks into deep gashes, producing haemorrhage, quickly followed by death.

The corn stood there and shrivelled up; the potatoesthe wonderful potatoesthey did not shrivel up, but flowered and flowered.

Far from thy border, and far from thy dwelling, Be the hot blast which shrivels the bud in its swelling, The seed-rotting taint, and the creeping disease.

Like all extremists who have no reservations, but will trust to their principle though it slay them, they have gained a certain glow, a fervour of life, which shrivels up our ordinary compromises and political considerations.

Empirical psychology, then, alone remains for the extension of our knowledge of mental life, while rational psychology shrivels up from a doctrine into a mere discipline, which watches that the limits of experience are not overstepped.

Think of him, I say, and of the concentrated gaze of good society through its thousand eyes, all confluent, as it were, in one great burning-glass of ice that shrivels its wretched object in fiery torture, itself cold as the glacier of an unsunned cavern!

When war comes, the price of all property shrivels.

As the grapes ripen, admit more air, and reduce the heat, otherwise the fruit will shrivel.

The corms should never be kept long out of the ground, as they shrivel, and weak growth and few flowers are the result.

Your bones grow brittle and break, or they go all soft, you shrivel up and become white, or swellings come out on you and you get bigger and bigger until you die.