Though souls are denied you by fools and by rakes, Should you own it yourselves, I would even then doubt you, Your nature so much of celestial partakes, The Garden of Eden would wither without you.
The plant requires heat and a damp atmosphere, but exposure to the sun or dry winds would wither it, and destroy the flavour and pungency of the leaf.
O monstrous doom, Within a rock-built prison sepulchered, To fade and wither in a living tomb, And alien midst the living and the dead.
Wither roam O'er land or sea in our distress Eating the bread of bitterness?
Then to those assembled round the fire he went on, raising his voice: "Kali Mai wither the hand that betrayeth Bijoo, and fire consume his hut!
Die, song, die like a breath, And wither as a bloom: Fear not a flowery death, Dread not an airy tomb!
Wither seems everywhere bursting with a love of goodness, and a hatred of all low and base actions.
Reference has already been made to the allusion in this work of Wither to the custom of Hock-tide.
You have cast yourself from among us and you wither on this wild plain fo[r]lorn and helpless: some dreadful calamity must have befallen you.
The leaves never wither either in winter or summer, but always remain shining and glistening, except on every successive Nirva[n.
Even the greatest of moral principles are indebted to self-interest for their success, and without it the sublimest of creeds, the loftiest of principles would soon wither and die for lack of support.
They had each had experiences, no doubt, of their own, and neither of them had expected that their family should wither out solitary in their persons.
Why wither not these trees, those herbs and plants?
But if any man (Thys slave except), although hys synns would make The sunne put on a cloud to shame his syghte And the grasse wither with his loathed .
Well, may my blackest curse wither the man that left Nell to hear that, as the kindest word that's spoke either to her or of her!
An odor of innocence and of prayer, And of love, and faith that never fails, Such as the fresh young heart exhales Before it begins to wither and harden!
Pleasures, like flowers, may wither and decay, And yet the root perennial may be.
The Pestilence sits in Multnomah's place, and you will all wither in his hot and poisonous breath.
Were I to tell it the gift of eloquence would go from me, the fire would die from my heart and the words from my lips, and my life would wither up within me.
Capu: What should I say more than I said before, My daughter is a stranger in the world, 5 Shee hath not yet attainde to fourteene yeares: Let two more sommers wither in their pride, Before she can be thought fit for a Bride.
But saying o'er what I have said before: My child is yet a stranger in the world; She hath not seen the change of fourteen years: Let two more summers wither in their pride 10 Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
George Witherhad lately published his Abuses stript and whipt, 1613.
Anger him not, lest at a word and a wave of the hand he turn the sweet water into bitterness that shall witherall who drink.
These, however, soon wither and fall off, so that, to all appearance, leaves are never present on these plants.
When Marina had served his turn and her wit was of no more service to him, the conqueror discarded her, leaving her to wither of a broken heart.
I was a woman born for light and love, and yet I was thrust into the darkness of this cloister, there to wither dead in life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wither" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
