Suddenly his jaw dropped, and he wilted like a pricked bladder.
Moran's sullen, insolent eyes suddenly encountering a dangerous, steely glare from Kilbride's gray orbs he wilted and immediately dropped his belligerent attitude.
It should be more or less wiltedbefore being stored, according to the succulence in it, and it is considered highly important that it shall also be free from external moisture.
Where large areas are to be harvested and where there is no danger of rain, the crop when nicely wilted is drawn into winrows, and in these the curing is completed without further stirring or handling.
Stir with the tedder as soon as the clover has wilted somewhat.
It makes a very rapid growth quite early in the season, and when cut and wilted more or less before being fed, the palatability is thereby considerably increased.
When wilted a little before being fed, the danger of producing bloat is eliminated.
By now the grass was cumbered with many shattered cocoanut shells, like broken shards; and banana peels, both red and yellow, lay wilted and limp everywhere in the litter underfoot.
The heat which wilted down the white men and made their round old faces look almost peaked, appeared to have a briskening effect upon him.
Hiram shook his head, and then Drummond wilted and sank in the sand.
His hands came away red and wet He wilted in his tracks, sighed again, and seemed to drift placidly into a deep, soothing sleep.
Ah, General Battle," said the judge to a stout gentleman with a red face and an expansive shirt front from which the collar hadwilted away; "fine afternoon!
Melton's eyes were like two lambent flames, and as the fellow looked into them, he wilted like a rag.
But it's a long jump from theory to performance, and they've all wilted until your Uncle Samuel took up the job.
Once he gained his feet, but his legs were too weak to sustain him, and he slowly wilted and sank back into the snow.
They were known as chechaquos, and they always wilted at the application of the name.
It was an expression of the master's disapproval, and White Fang's spirit wilted under it.
She wilted to her tallest feather, and the tears came crowding, stinging the back of her throat, compelling a miserable sniff.
She welcomed him with a glitter of eyes and teeth and discovered the reserve-chair that had been covered by her somewhat fatigued and wilted draperies of maize Liberty-silk, veiled with black Maltese lace.
The root systems of wilted plants did not show the presence of club root or black rot infection.
From a distance, the affected plants appeared to have yellows, but upon close study, it was found that they were merely wilted and stunted and did not show the other typical symptoms of the yellows disease.
In August of 1942, studies were made on wilted and stunted cabbage plants growing in a semicircle on one side of a field adjacent to a walnut tree (Fig.
Note large, healthy plants in foreground, side and background about a semicircle of smaller, wilted plants, growing in an area affected by the root system of the black walnut tree.
Thus, with early apples and pears, a few days only embrace the best period, during which they may be gathered without becoming wilted if plucked too soon, or decaying if left too late.
I set down the basket, wiped my face, and ruefully felt of my wilted collar.
She put the basket by the spring, dipped her hands in the water, and then let palmsful drop on the wilted flowers.
This wilted the whole party into silence, and we drove on, with the hail pelting against the windows, and lowering clouds inside.
Female women grew pale, and trembled on the hard seats; men wilted down into childish softness; children cried and shouted.
I put a blue veil around my beehive, and wilted down into my corner of the settee.
But that white hat was no laughing matter, and theywilted down before it.
Do you know, if I go into a country church today, that scent of wilted flowers and linen and mingled perfumes almost makes me weep?
The excessive heat had wilted these flowers of loveliness and faded their bright hues.
I am glad you have another, Edith," I said, looking at the wilted flowers on my pillow.
The fever spared her, but she wiltedlike the grass beneath the scythe of the mower.
The bacteria causing wilt not only spread through the soil but are carried by insects from freshly wilted to healthy plants.
If the stem of a plant freshly wilted from this disease be severed, the bacteria will ooze out in dirty white drops on the cut surface.
Its most prominent symptoms are the wilting of the foliage and a browning of the wood inside the recently wilted stems.
The black head wilted against my breast and the serious young violet eyes were raised to mine in frightened confidence.
Now what would we do if they should be wilted by the frost just as they are ready to burst bud?
We put her out at home in a wilted condition from pure good times, and then Matthew took me on up to Elmnest.
For a second I let him take me again into his strong arms, but I wilted there and I simply could not raise my lips to his.
Cap'n Eb says he never come so near bein' scared in his life; and, as to old Cack, he jest wilted right down in his chair.
Old Tom hewilted down considerable under this, and looked railly as if he was goin' to give in.
He don't amount to nothing, but his face 'd cause me to lose my appetite and pine away like a wilted vi'let.
The Baron wilted to a mock swoon, his little legs stiffening at a hypotenuse.
He wilted like a melting candle, everything that had gone to make him suddenly dissolved, and only the feeble flame of a sputtering wick remained to prove that there ever had been anything else.
She wilted into Emma's arms and muffled her heartbroken sobs.
An awful dispensation of Providence, in the shape of a large, wilted cucumber, laid hold upon his vitals and cursed him with an inward pain.
He wilted forward, his hat falling, and crumpled into her arms.
Now that the stimulation of her first wild outburst had been exhausted, she stood wilted and weak, shivering with her hands over her eyes, moaning and moaning in piteous low wail.
She wilted like a lily, rudely snapped from the stem.
Scarce the buds wilted and the voices ceased Ere the pure light that sparkled in his eyes, Bright as auroral fires in Southern skies, Faded and faded!
I wilted right down agin, like a cabbage plant in the sun.
