Opposite, sat a still more ancient veteran, the father of the first, shrunken to a mere anatomy, and "seeming to be rather a dead carkeis than a living body.
Shorty, who was pawing around in his shrunken haversack, as he produced two dingy crackers and a handful of pieces, discolored by contact with the coffee and meat during the days of marching in the rain.
The sadly-shrunken remnant of the unconquer able 200th Ind.
The horses of the officers seemed shrunken and drawn-up, and the mud was getting deeper every minute.
As they gained the crest the air became clearer, and they saw the sadly-shrunken remnant of their regiment strung in an irregular line along the forward edge.
Now his uniform flapped around his shrunken body and limbs.
Give me to clasp this earth with feeding roots like thine, To mount yon heaven with such star-aspiring head, Fill full with sap and buds this shrunken life of mine, And from my boughs O might such stalwart sons be shed!
I remember it as a very big cage indeed; no doubt I should find it shrunken to quite moderate dimensions if I could see it again.
Her husband, shrunken in his seat, was also looking over the funereal fields, but his eyes were fixed most tenaciously on some mounds without wreaths or flags, simple crosses with a little board bearing the briefest inscription.
Paris had become a shrunken place for them nowadays because Marguerite refused to go to a single place where there was a possibility of their being surprised.
His shrunken legs clanked against the thin flanks of the lean beast.
Since the disappearance of the ice these glacial flood plains have been dissected by the shrunken rivers of recent times and left on either side the valley in high terraces.
As the nucleus contracts, it tends to draw away from the cooled and solid crust, and the latter settles, adapting itself to the shrinking nucleus much as the skin of a withering apple wrinkles down upon the shrunken fruit.
Contrasted as he now was with the shrunken figure of the spirit-broken stranger, he looked almost sublime.
Roman, and his shrunken form seemed to expand, and his tremulous voice to grow firm and steady in the very bitterness of his contempt, as he spoke.
The marshal of Carabineers, a man with shrunken cheeks and the eyes of a hawk, dressed in his little brief authority, strode with a lofty look through the spectators to telegraph the arrest to Rome.
A truer glass might show a shrunken figure," he repeated, and with a quick and impatient sigh he looked at the image in the mirror.
The glass that now he dresses before tells him not; but he thinks a truer glass would show a shrunken figure.
The shadow of the Maypole was not much shrunken when the guests of the house of Jaquelin began to arrive.
Pituitary types, as said, get fat and slow, thyroidal become bulky and stupid or thin and sour, the adrenal dark, shrunken and forever tired of life.
What surprised the young priest, however, was his Holiness's face and figure, which now seemed so shrunken that he scarcely recognised them.
There was the case of Monsignor Nazzarelli, who had been found in bed, shrunken and calcined like carbon.
And as Pierre listened and looked he was pained to see merely some corpulent ladies or undersized gentlemen, bloated or shrunken beings, whose ill-looks seemed to be increased by their modern attire.
This man was a little, undergrown fellow, with sharp hatchet-shaped features, and bent and shrunken figure.
This was not hard to do, for the beast was very feeble; its feet could hardly bear it upright, its wool was yellow and stayed only in patches on its shrunken body.
But as Jason looked upon the man who had striven to equal the gods in wisdom, and noted his blinded eyes and shrunken face, he resolved never to harbor in his heart such presumption as Phineus had harbored.
Medea, standing before him, looked a withered and shrunken beldame, a woman bent with years, but yet with eyes that were bright and living.
The tears by this were coursing down his shrunken cheeks, but I observ'd him watch me narrowly, as though to find out how much I knew.
Twas a tall black brute, very strong in the loins, and I bought him at once out of my shrunken stock of guineas.
Other rings would successively be detached, and form the rest of the planets; and the sun is the shrunken and condensed body of the nebula.
It had only three toes on its hind feet, and four on its front feet; though it had also a splint-bone, representing the shrunken and discarded fifth toe, on its fore feet.
Meantime, we may take a closer look at these interesting inhabitants of the Middle Ages of the earth, before they pass away or are driven, in shrunken regiments, into the shelter of the narrowing tropics.
The vermiform appendage--in which some recent medical writers have vainly endeavoured to find a utility--is the shrunkenremainder of a large and normal intestine of a remote ancestor.
There is little room to doubt that the little fleshy vestige in the mammal's eye is the shrunken remainder of the lateral eyelid of a remote fish-ancestor.
His hands, shrunken yet sinewy, lay crossed upon a book in his lap.
She knew that she was no longer the pretty girl he had loved, and she shrank from his scrutiny of her faded features and of her shrunken figure.
The damsel had a kind word and a smile for both, and doubtless contrasted their vigorous youth and shapely forms with the shrunken figure of her elderly protector, and their lively conversation with his glum silence.
His hair was bleached to tow colour by the sun; his ribs stood out like the ribs of a basket, and the lumps on his knees and elbows, where he was used to track on all fours, gave his shrunken limbs the look of knotted grass-stems.
The lads soon learned to take toll on the way, and to comfort theirshrunken stomachs with a modest share of the diet of their betters.
The shrunken stomach of the boy began to convert its claims into demands, and with this hint he put on a sad face and began to beg.
The winds came in from the tiles above and through the shrunken window-frames.
The stimulus was growth, the rapid growth that only an abundant food supply could give, the sort of growth that the shrunken environment outside could not supply.
