Meanings of shrunken form in English

The yellowed hands fell limply to the sheet, the shrunken form stiffened.

The doctor looked at Beatrice's cold shrunken form, and at the foam upon her lips.

A ghastly visage, a shrunken form, a crippled limb, were what he brought home from the war.

Her invalid gown sat loosely upon her shrunken form, her delicate, lace cap shaded a fading face.

Janin found a broken chair on which he balanced his bowed and shrunken form; Harry Baggs sat against the wall.

But her ailments were too radical for permanent cure, as the weak voice and shrunken form never ceased to attest.

There he stood before the visitors, his white beard trailing on the tiling at his feet, his shrunken form erect.

But she did not; only, her head sagged even lower on her breast, and the shrunken form grew yet more shrunken.

Learn retrenchment from the starving oyster, who spends his last energies in a new pearly layer suited to his shrunken form.

Exhaustion, helplessness, sorrow, physical injury, and moral defeat, were written in every line of the poor drawn face and shrunken form.

In old age, waste exceeds repair; hence the powers are enfeebled and the skin lies in wrinkles on the shrunken form.]

The old man wore a high cap with three lines about it; his thin and shrunken form was enveloped in a gorgeous robe.

But it was to the bed Dave turned, and, with another match, bent over the shrunken form that lay almost concealed amid the coarse coverings.

His sound eye gleamed, his shrunken form seemed to expand and fill, and his harsh sallow features took on an expression which was almost ecstatic.

But again I looked down into the vault, and in fancy beheld the pale, shrunken forms still crouching there.

"These moonbeams are horrible; see how they cling to the bodies as if they delighted in lighting up these wasted and shrunken forms."