This withered my hopes; and the more care I took of my invalids--the more I hawked them from window to window, the worse they grew.
Fish, flesh, and fowl, disappeared at the glance of that awful eye, as the Roman fleet withered and vanished before the grand burning glass of Archimedes.
And why may not our hand, withered somewhat though it be, but yet unpalsied, point out aloft to heedless eyes single light or constellation, or lily by herself or in groups unsuspected along the waysides of our mortal pilgrimage?
As for his bodily frame, when Lucy's father lifted it up in his arms, little heavier was it than a bundle of withered fern.
Why, there is some comfort in that reflection, while we sit rubbing our withered hands up and down on these shrivelled shanks.
The body feels its mortal nature, and shrinks as if about to be withered into nothing.
I'm stupified with sorrow, past relief Of tears; parched up, and withered with my grief.
The bloom of beauty other years demands, Nor will be gathered by such withered hands: You importune it with a false desire, Which sparkles out, and makes no solid fire.
When you made him your friend before all the big men at the City Hall something bloomed in him, m'sieu'--something that before had been only a withered bud!
His mouth twitched and the crinkles in his withered face deepened.
When Farr was in the highway he fumbled in his pocket and found the withered rose.
A sprawling tree shaded a foot-worn plank where an old man, with bent shoulders and a withered face, trudged to and fro, clawing down into the black waters with a huge rake.
They withered away with the rapidity of weeds when their roots have been skillfully cut.
Here Arthur stood like a statue, holding fast to Jerrie, and gazing down upon the neglected grave, on which clumps ofwithered grass were growing and blowing in the November wind.
Do you scowl at the cloud when it pours its rain Till the fields that were withered and burnt and old Are fresh and tender and young again?
These barren drops of grief Are not for you, attained unto your rest; This sterile salt upon the withered leaf Of love, is mine--mine the dark burial guest.
Only one of the commonest common people, Only a worked-out body, a shriveled and withered soul, What right have I to sing then?
But after the day of his christening they withered and shrank; he no longer kicked them out either in passion or play, and when, as he got to be nearly a year old, his nurse tried to make him stand upon them, he only tumbled down.
His soiled garments became of dazzling whiteness, and his long beard and withered face grew into the flowing hair and lovely countenance of the fairy Candide.
Then I almost regret having undertaken the mission," replied the little man with an imperceptible expression of sarcastic mischief hovering around his withered lips.
Well to-day I'm glad that I didn't lose patience, but lived on, though every evening found the hope of the morning withered and dead.
Shall we destroy it unread and throw it into the pond among the withered leaves?
In witheredand deformed limbs, resulting from infantile paralysis, the manipulator furnishes the most agreeable, direct, and certain remedy.
Some of the women, after a fashion of their own, wore large wreaths of blue blossoms and green leaves about their withered faces.
Is there in history a figure so lonely and despised as that of the woman, who, once the most beautiful in the world, crept back into her native land a withered hag?
Or they may merely have cooled the feverish feet of a withered nun, who clasped her dry hands in ecstasy, as on her cavernous eyes there dawned a vision of the glories and rewards of Paradise.
That book has healed wounds as deep as yours, and mitigated sorrows no less poignant; and, if you examine it, you may find it as a well-spring of life to your withered happiness.
Max holding the withered hand of the gentle old lady in his own, and Estella and I being near together.
I made a posy while the day ran by, Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band; But Time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And withered in my hand!
Mother is inclined to cry, until snubbed and withered into dry-eyedness by her consort.
See how fierce vapors choke my breath; see my singed hair, my withered face, the heaps of cinders that defile my fair body.
He put other questions but received no answer; only the gust of wind sighed continually out of the cavity, and blew the withered leaves rustling along the ground before it.
Some of the countenances still bore traces of good looks, thoughwithered by the sun and storm of years.
There still hung the withered and wasted skeletons of their brethren, naked, bare of flesh, bleached, and rattling against the branches of the thrice-accursed tree!
If these withered arms of mine had but the strength of their youth, soon should some of these suitors smart for their misdeeds; and if their numbers were too great for me to deal with, better so to die than see them thus devour the land.
Craftily she told the daughters of Pelias of the power of her spells, which could tame the fire-breathing bulls, and lull the dragon to sleep, and bring back the brightness of youth to the withered cheeks of the old.
Once more Dia made ready her husband's chariot, and once more he sped on his fiery journey; but all men turned away their faces, and the trees bowed their scorched and withered heads to the ground.
Nevertheless, eight years after it was said of him: "The Athanase Gransons must die, withered up, like the grains which fall on barren rock.
All at once he heard a voice come out of the empty air and say to him: 'Osseo, my son, the spells that bound you are now broken, and the evil charms that made you old and withered before your time have all been wished away.
How the frost-weary and withered earth would melt and mellow at his sunny touch!
Osseo, however, did not turn from Oweenee in her trouble, but took her brown and withered hand, called her sweetheart and soothed her with kind words, until they came to the lodge in the forest where the feast was being given.
She dies young, and the first few weeks of the New Year have hardly passed away before she wends her way to the strange Elysian fields, where all that survives of broken toys sleeps under the shade of withered Christmas trees.
It was not difficult to see that times were hard--the old man's clothes were doubtful, and the pallor of poverty lay over his withered features, where I read the story of a long life of failure.
And they have withered away with the growth of knowledge and with clearer perceptions of what Religion must be if it is to exist at all.
Each plant its leaves all dying shows; The trees display their withered forms.
Hate follows love, as 'neath those sandal-trees The withered leaves the eager searcher sees.
Others thought she looked as if some demon had cast a blighting glance upon her, withered up the woman's soul in her, and left only a hard despairing obstinacy.
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off, and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
Three miles further up the stream the wood-belt ends abruptly; then, after another three miles, one passes the last stunted bush; after that there is nothing but brown earth and yellow withered grass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "withered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
