One by one, they come to lightthe brave hopes and dreams and aspirations of youth; the ruddy life has gone out of them; they have shriveled into an alien, pathetic dignity.

And again the fiery anguish caught him, set him writhing; shrivelled him as parchment is shrivelled in the flame.

May he be cursed in life and may the flesh shrivel on his bones and his soul be eternally damned with another candle and fifty gold pieces to the altar of holy Saint Giles" But now hearing Roger groan, the archer paused to admonish him thus: "Croak not, Roger, croak not," quoth he, "think not upon thy vile body pray, man, praypray thyself speechless.

There lay a woman, her face shrivelled with some internal horrorsome appalling disease which even the science of these days dared not handle, or at least had not; her large eyes staring with an almost terrible intensity, fixed, it seemed, in her head, yet waiting for the Vision that even now might make her whole.

The chain of events at the menopause, the acme and then ebb of the sex tide, may be summed up something like this: The ovaries cease producing their eggs and so shrivel as a storage battery atrophies when it dries up.

There were stops in which fielders seemed to stretch like india rubber and others in which they shriveled like parchment which has been dried.

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

It was only the effect of that suffering that could ever be made apparent, when the soul came forth again, blackened and shrivelled from the furnace.

Her glance doth shrivel up my very heart, And all that bitter hate, hid deep within My bosom, well nigh strangles me to death!

He was, he felt, singularly stupid for the rest of their conversation, and the delightful feeling of enterprise that had hitherto inspired and astonished him when talking to her had shrivelled beyond contempt.

The contrary, that is, the injurious effects of cold bathingits immediate bad effects, I meanare shown by the skin remaining pale and shrivelled after coming out of the bath, by its blue appearance, and by its coldness, as well as by a sunken state of the eyes, and much general languor.

His faults keep growing by recognition, and his good points keep shrivelling for lack of notice, until in your mind there is nothing left but faults.