The vilest deeds like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair.
Francesco bared his head, and bent to the withers of his horse in courteous greeting.
Most scholars consider Hyacinthus to be the personification of the blooming vegetation of spring, which withers under the heats of summer.
Teachers and parents are over-considerate, nowadays, of the memory in children: they approach it gingerly; they have feared so much to wring its withers that in most children the memory has grown too soft for saddling.
Young Witherswas in distress, for Li's distress was so obvious, his singular reticence making him suffer still more.
Most particular was old Mr. Withers that Li Yuan Chang should be included.
Withers suspiciously, by which he meant, was Li addicted to smoking that cheapest form of opium, the refuse and scrapings, which was the only grade that all but the richest could afford.
This took Withers frequently to Peking, leaving old Li in charge of the godowns in Tientsin.
Old Withershad managed to preserve Li's queu for him.
Withers had signed an order for the removal of five boxes.
By Jove," thought young Withers to himself, "the old chap's holding me responsible.
She recognised Withers and the shroff and came forward.
Their coolies shared the k'ang within, with the camel drivers and other travellers, but Withers and the shroff preferred the cart, for there were worse if smaller animals than camels to be found in native hostelries.
Withers and the shroff caught the first train out for Peking, and arriving in two hours, made hasty preparations for their journey.
So of course young Withers made no objection, and considered that he was very fortunate in having Li stay with him, after the turnover.
Young Withers tried to explain something of this to the old man, who was very patient and did not interrupt him, but the seed was falling on barren ground.
Much, however, might be done by care in packing, to prevent injury to the withers and bruising of the back-bone.
At thewithers there is a slight elevation, but no protuberance or hump, as in the Indian ox.
His back is less straight, and there is a dip behind the withers and a rounding of the crupper which is more like the shape of the horse; his neck also is more erect and arched than that of the ass.
Rymer was some time ago characterised by Macaulay as the worst critic that ever lived, and Quarles and Withers have now many admirers, while 'The Choice' and its ill-fated author are nearly forgotten.
It withers the creatural, and it speaks the undying word.
To us it is evident that stabbing the image is only like stabbing the victim; but to the believer in magic, stabbing the image is the same thing as stabbing the victim; and in his belief, as the waxen image melts, so the victim withers away.
From the black trumpet's rusty concave broke Sulphureous flames, and clouds of rolling smoke: The poisonous vapour blots the purple skies, 340 And withers all before it as it flies.
Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair?
Neither is it true that "family life withers under the cold sneer--half pity and half scorn--with which I look down on household worship.
Family life withersunder the cold sneer--half pity and half scorn--with which you look down on household worship.
The fullest-fruited laurel then withers before her eyes, if it has not taken root at her own hearth.
If the sun do not shine, it withers and drops, and gives way to the next aspirant.
She seemed only to endure him, and while his affection waxed stronger, and entwined itself round her alone, she withered beneath his embraces as the shrub withers in the clasping folds of the parasite plant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "withers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
