wizen-faced

“Get ye out, Mr. Polonius!” said the old lady, a little wizen-faced old lady, with her face puckered up in a million of wrinkles.

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

It is needless to say, after entering so largely into a description of Lady Gorgon, that her husband was a little shrivelled wizen-faced creature, eight inches shorter than her

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

A tall wizen-faced man, with a stiff grizzled moustache and swarthy skin, who was passing out with his partner, said:

Dubliners 2003

The small wizen-faced man smiled, as Moslems say, the smile of Umar

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

When their crier, a small wizen-faced man, began the Azan with a voice

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Then a little wizen-faced, dried-up old man said he would put up $400.

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

Paul, looking down at the speaker, saw a weak-looking, wizen-faced boy, with pale, thin cheeks, and one shoulder slightly higher than the other.

The Hero of Garside School

He looked dazedly at wizen-faced lads who gathered round ice-cream stalls, and at hungry folks who ate stewed peas.

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

Now after a while Barnabas stepped into the gloomy hall and stood listening; the house was very silent, only upon the stillness he could hear the loud, deliberate tick of the wizen-faced clock upon the stairs, and, as he stood there, it seemed to him that to-night it was trying to tell him something.

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

Barnabas as though he lolled there dead, with the dagger smitten sideways through his throat, and in that moment Barnabas fancied he could hear the deliberate tick-tock of the wizen-faced clock upon the stairs.

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915