Like a little wildwood flower wilting.

His head rolled uncertainly, like a wilting sunflower on a broken stalk.

I left her wilting in the big chair, staring hard into the fireplace that Clem had rilled with summer green things.

But how fares the world of Venice?and what dost thou among the canals at this season, to keep the flowers of thy jacket from wilting?" "To-day, as yesterday, and to-morrow will be as to-day I row the gondola from the Rialto to the Giudecca; from San Giorgio to San Marco; from San Marco to the Lido, and from the Lido home.

The little dandy in his smug black garments with his diamond stud gleaming in the ivy-bosomed shirt (his rings had been given to Miss Birdie), with his features wilting like the wild pansies in the lapel of his coat, dwindled to an amorphous streak beneath the keen glance of my burly brother.

She was like a wilting plant in that atmosphere.

The blossoms on the pumpkin vine Are weeping diamond tears of dew; 'Tis warm, the flowers are wilting fast, My linen, too, my linen, too.

Thou wilt find it in the book called the Table Book.

and so many beautiful men in them, and so few of them ready to die; and all those gallant soldiers going to the war;Lord, wilt thou not have mercy?

None of thy follies wilt thou repent; none wilt thou wish to repeat.

None of thy follies wilt thou repent; none wilt thou wish to repeat.

It was just like a piece of steel wilting.

His cheek, which had not yet lost the freshness due to the mountain air, would, at times, become pale as that of the wilting flower near him; while at others, the blood rushed across his brow in a torrent that seemed to threaten a rupture of the starting vessels in which it so tumultuously flowed.

" The boys grew red from the tips of their ears, and as far as any one could see under their wilting collars.

There at Byzantium I saw the world which thou wouldst see, and what I saw thou wilt see.

The quantity required and the terms of payment are the inducement to offer it to thee at the exceeding low price here stated, which thou wilt please keep to thyself undivulged to other person, etc., etc."

After wilting a little on the ground, it is dried on sticks, by one of the three processes called "pegging, spearing, and splitting."

Again was the enemy routed; but again came the wilting-time of dire want.

'A fountain springs out of earth into air; it sings a tune that cannot be caught and written down in notes; the rising and falling water is full of iridescent colour, and to the wilting roses the fountain must seem not a natural thing, but a spirit, and I too think of her as a spirit.'

" "Nonsense," said Carraway, wilting a little.

When the crop began to turn yellow the stalks must be cut off close to the ground, and after wilting carried to a well ventilated tobacco house and there hung speedily for curing.

Thy life and songs forever o'er, Thou wilt charm my ear no more.

His whole big body seemed to be wilting, as though in a terrific heat.

Pictures focussed on woman in all her varied moods and flattered the male mind by portraying her wilting with sadness when deprived of husband or lover.

If Jonah's gourd had not been a little too much used already, it would serve an excellent turn just here in the way of an apt figure of speech illustrating the growth, the wilting, and the withering of Metropolisville.