(Used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.
1 And, in general, Scutari's high idea of European civilization shrivelled and shrank.
2 Before those darting points of flame the pride of the French shrivelled .
3 The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.
4 She bent her cheek upon the shrivelled hand resting upon the arm.
5 It was as though the long-continued cold had cracked and shrivelled him.
6 The dying part loses sensibility to touch and becomes cold and shrivelled .
7 So he slowly shrivelled away over the fever-flame of love and died.
8 The very thought shrivelled me with a sense of ignorance and insignificance.
9 She felt the skin tickling her hand as it rapidly shrivelled up.
10 The hand is white, like yours-itis white and dead and shrivelled .
11 He has gone back to his roots, to his nation's shrivelled roots.
12 Suddenly one of the shrivelled , mummy hands came down to his own.
13 An entire black and shrivelled Crab-Apple has been recovered from their stores.
14 A few have already shrivelled in the relentless heat and salty soil.
15 What you want is some young blood pumped into your shrivelled veins.
16 A few illusions shrivelled up that wintry morning under that murky sky.
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