The curtain drew up--shrivelled to the ceiling: the bright lights, the long room, the gay throng, burst upon us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Contempt fell cool on Mr. Rochester--his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked--What have _you_ to say? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
It was not merely that they were weazened and shrivelled--though they were certainly that too--but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
An Italian was grinding an organ before the shop, and a miserable little shrivelled monkey was sitting on the instrument. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
All was shrivelled and dried up, except these lights; her voice too was fearfully changed, as she spoke to me at intervals. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
I clasped her shrivelled hand: Are you indeed so ill? 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Every green leaf, every blade of grass and blade of grain, was as shrivelled and poor as the miserable people. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The shrivelled voice of the heath did not alarm him, for that was familiar. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
It was very odd to see what old letters Charley's young hand had made, they so wrinkled, and shrivelled, and tottering, it so plump and round. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Perpetual fear had jaundiced his complexion, and shrivelled his whole person. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Mr. George, says Grandfather Smallweed with a tremulous wave of his shrivelled hand, this is the gentleman, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
For a time the Concert of Europe struggled valiantly to carry on upon the old lines, but the French Revolution had shrivelled the heart of monarchy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.