What is "wizened"

Usage examples of "wizened".

Also in attendance was the local Roman Catholic primate, a foreigner named Father Simony, and a wizened, breech-clouted little witch doctor of the King Buzzard cult, Don Curandero Brujo.

Age had so wizened the man in the mirror that even standing he was doubled over like a frog.

Early Middle Ages, taught by a wizened old Jew named Crone, as Hoyt thought of him, whose droning voice would put you right under but who was a notoriously, or gloriously, easy grader.

He showed him pictures of houses, streets, villages, and temples, of fantastic Batu caves near Kuala Lumpur, and of the jagged, wildly beautiful limestone and marble mountains near Ipoh, and when Veraguth asked if there were no pictures of natives, he dug out photographs of Malays, Chinese, Tamils, Arabs, and Javanese, naked athletic harbor coolies, wizened old fishermen, hunters, peasants, weavers, merchants, beautiful women with gold ornaments, dark naked groups of children, fishermen with nets, earringed Sakai playing the nose flute, and Javanese dancing girls bristling with silver baubles.

Leia listened, with increasing respect, to Han discussing puttie, which had to be the most boring sport in the entire Universe, for thirty minutes with a wizened Durosian before bringing up the subject of the local action.

For more than a day and a night Elric sat with Raik Na Seem and the men and women of the Bauradim within the shelter of the Bronze Tent, their eyes fixed upon the strangely wizened body of Alnac the Dreamthief which occasionally stirred and murmured yet still seemed as lifeless as the mummified goats which the sand-dunes sometimes revealed.

What grass had managed to gain a roothold was salt resistant marram, growing in crannies where a poor soil had gathered, and even the dandelions were wizened and sickly growths.

Lag time, General Radescu hoped as he stepped toward the wizened Molt, shells fired before his order to desist.

Ferad that it held in memory--and one image more, the wizened Molt staggering backwards with his chest shot away and the treaty ablaze in his hand.

The runt he had addressed turned on him a wizened, monkeyish face in which pale blue eyes regarded him blankly.

Then four Narwhal clansmen carried a wizened little woman down the stairs and into the hall.

The kobolds, Bunion and Parsnip, trailed after, gnarled bodies skittering along, wizened monkey faces grinning doubtfully, all teeth and sharp angles.

Will Flagg, wizened well beyond his years, flapped his arms up and down, then came stomping over to snatch a stick of meat.

They were artists of misdirection as sure as any thimblerigger shifting his three shells and one wizened pea.

He gestured to a wispy-bearded man nearly as old as Hamok Trei and even more withered, even more wizened.