How To Use Shrive In A Sentence

When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
The crunch leaves of autumn had shrivelled and the sun was a lazy, dusky peach colour.
And of everych of these sins it behoveth them to be shriven of their priests, and to pay great sum of silver for their penance. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.

It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
Without the direct intervention of God's angels, William cannot recognize it and be shriven of it.
When her remaining lung shrivels in its cage, and her guts collapse; when myoelectric demons flood her sinuses and middle ears with isotonic saline. Starfish
Like a tiny seed, the strength of his convictions slowly began to shrivel. SEA MUSIC
His was the good fortune to witness Sheppard's encounter with the topsman, and to shrive the battered soul of Jonathan Wild. A Book of Scoundrels
“The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart,” said De Bracy. Ivanhoe
“But we were thrown before its beauty unprepared, unshrived, unshorn.” Angkor Wat Book Review - A Glimpse of a Bygone Era | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
Turns out she took a little time off to graduate cum laude from FRIGGIN' HARVARD (can you hear that...that's my self-esteem shriveling up and dying) and now she's back at it, appearing in a plethora (Harvard word) of TV and movie gigs. YesButNoButYes: YBNBY Hall of Fame: Babes of the 80's
Developers and equipment manufacturers, among others, would have no leverage on price, would see their markets shrink and their profits shrivel. Art Brodsky: Labor Leader's Lament: 'Where Are the Jobs' AT&T Promised?
The leaves die, of course, and in their shriveled state present no threat when it snows.
Short in proportion to the Corolla tho wide or bulky; the Style is very long or longer than the stamens, simple, cilindrical, bowed or bent upwards, placed on the top of the germ, membranous shrivels and falls off when the pericarp has obtained it's full Size. the Stigma is three clefts very manute and pubescent. the pericarp is a capsule, triangular, oblong, obtuse, and trilocular with three longitudinal valves. the Seed So far as I could judge are noumerous not very manute and globilar. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Fresh walnuts are simply walnuts that have been recently picked from the tree, as opposed to walnuts that have been stored for a while, causing their insides to shrivel and dry up.
You know, those shriveled brown vegetables down in the vegetable crisper?
I'll just wither and wane under all that pressure and shrivel up inside until I'm microscopic.
She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat. The Call of the North
With the dried tail of a herring sticking out of their saffron-coloured, shrivelled chops, Lord! how they gaped when I passed by, hurriedly, like A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
But as she walked between the huge pylons of the temple, Miri's soul shrivelled inside her.
I was already shrivelling up for using such an expression outside a De Niro movie before she came back and added her death stare. THE MANANA MAN
First Lady of California Maria Shriver hit the polls in Los Angeles on Tuesday decked out in dark duds, sunglasses, knee-high boots and a cross ... Maria Shriver Wears All Black, Cross Necklace To Vote (PHOTOS, POLL)
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He wasn't going to completely ruin her night, even if something inside of her continued to shrivel and die whenever he sent his blazing gaze in her direction.
Like a tiny seed, the strength of his convictions slowly began to shrivel. SEA MUSIC
She looked even more shriveled now, like a kernel of some life-form waiting to fill out its red cocoon. Babies
Her whole face shriveled up into a pained, dried-apple doll expression.
Cuthbert had shriven him and brought the sacrament for that last great journey. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Sitting in the wheelchair is a young woman with a pretty face and two shriveled legs.
Sitting in the wheelchair is a young woman with a pretty face and two shriveled legs.
In good years, the warmth of the sun as it rises kills off the fungus, leaving the grapes shrivelled and unsightly, but tasting delicious: full of the sugar and glycerine which was left behind.
After the baby is born, the cord shrivels up and you get an innie.
His brother reminded him that he ought to go to the Monastery and shrive himself before Father Eustace, who would that day occupy the confessional.
It was served with a selection of silver-skin cocktail onions and cauliflower florets which had been pickled in vinegar so astringent it made my tongue shrivel and my teeth feel funny.
My insides curl and shrivel, I am dying, slowly, by inches. A MEANS TO EVIL
Confessing to the poor old woman, who cannot shrive them! Clarissa Harlowe
Out in the sticks last weekend, the sheep looked like shrivelled prunes on legs.
The leaves shrivelled in the sun.
“And I shrive you, sir, and bid good fortune go with you,” answered the Doctor. The History of Pendennis
And a search of t’internet tells me that shrove is derived from shrive, meaning to confess your sins to cleanse yourself before lent. Une fée
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
His eyes were hollow, bleared, and gummy; his face was shrivelled into a thousand wrinkles, his gums were destitute of teeth, his nose sharp and drooping, his chin peaked and prominent, so that, when he mumped or spoke, they approached one another like a pair of nutcrackers: he supported himself on an ivory-headed cane and his whole figure was The Adventures of Roderick Random
Under the direct sunlight young plants will shrivel up.
She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with masspriest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men’s oil to his limbs. Ulysses
Red-gold fire showed through the shrivelling skin, and then all at once it flared into coruscant life, a pillar of blinding plasma that flashed from floor to ceiling and left a smear of superheated ash on the walls.
Her lips were shrivelled and pale, her skin a ghastly white.
A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
Brown and shriveled canes stand out like sore thumbs.
Mary Ann Orlando, an aide to the late S arge Shriver, recalled being ready to walk off the job, frustrated by bureaucratic resistance to starting the Peace Corps - when the president stuck his head out of his office: "Hey, kid, where are you going? A lunch to talk of JFK
Okay, why did my brain shrivel to the size and consistency of a pea after two kids and you just had a baby and show no signs of “baby brain” at all. Community Is Hard. Deal With It. | Her Bad Mother
Were shriven, assoiled, and blessed; a mass have heard, La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier
The dry air shrivels the leather.
The flying woman was gone, the vision incorporating her shrivelled. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
In line with the motive to instruct, there are diseased organs, a liver shrivelled from alcohol abuse, lungs disfigured by cigarette tar, the misshapen brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer.
I felt my insides curl and shrivel into oblivion.
Severely infected seeds appear shriveled, cracked, and elongated, and may be covered with a white, moldy growth.
Prince Hamlet explains that the murderers killed his father twice because not only did they slay his body but by killing him unexpectedly, he had no occasion to shrive himself.
As firms' share of total deposits has ballooned, so Sberbank's relative power has shrivelled.
Nut kernels that are poorly filled are often hollow, shrunken, shriveled, and chaffy. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
They could only leave their pond for a few minutes before they began to shrivel up and die. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
Well, stay with me at least, and if it is twelve years since you shrived me at first, perhaps you shall shrive me at last, -- for I doubt if I am ever brought out to this sunshine again, if I do not die in the prison-damps to-night, -- and you, with all your change, are Father Anshmo, I think. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
This fungus causes fruit to shrivel and mummify.
He said in the court, when the interrogator pounds the desk he said it just shrivels me up inside.
Her eyeballs had shriveled further, and the sockets were oozing a thick pus. DO NO HARM
The fruit dried and shriveled
The discussion of soul-shrivelling tedium here – which is representative of just about any exchange with an atheist – started me thinking about the seeming incapacity of many atheists to go back to first principles and inspect their unstated assumptions. Atheist irrationality « Anglican Samizdat
It wasn't that she lacked strength; a more precise description would be that her independent nature had wasted away and shriveled up beneath the careful and diligent ministrations of her father.
Woody plants including gooseberries, raspberries and even roses may suffer from dieback after their leaves wilt and shrivel, changing to brown.
But first I noticed that grandpa always kind of shriveled when Uncle Mitch Miller
Edwards has on numerous occasions reitterated that this proposal is not a pretense at a potential Presidential fiat to shrive healthcare from our Congressional representatives BUT merely the first salvo in his campaign to initiate action towards bringing healthcare to all as right and not a moneyed privilege. Edwards Mailer In Iowa Reiterates His Threat To Take Away Congress' Health Care
She was left holding a jelly baby of shrivelled skin, her fingers glued together, webbed by a sticky emission.
The old man shot her a look of shrivelling hatred, then turned to his son. DOLL'S EYES
Monday night the trend continued and I was cooked for again, after we had lounged about in the Turkish baths for a good long while, until we were so shrivelled up we looked like dead people.
In short, oil has shriveled the promise and stained the soul of an entire country, empowering autocrats who disdain human rights and are oblivious to the misery of its people. Richard North Patterson discusses Eclipse
Ill-omened hag! unshriven be her sins nor mercy visit her on dying bed, i. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He was another personal favourite whose friendship shrivelled after a single unguarded remark.
The resultant plants were nothing more than shriveled clumps.
On the eve of the 1984 strike, however, the number of deep coal miners in Scotland had dwindled away to barely 14,000-a figure which itself shrivelled to less than 3,000 in the hard years after the conflict.
Get the bulbs into the ground, or they will begin to shrivel.
Town magistrates heard that Davis was stopped in his Iveco artic on Shrivenham Road on the morning of Tuesday, March 4.
Pilotshark, Limpballs has a latin trannie hooker on his tootsie roll, pathetically shriveled as it is. Think Progress » Extreme Right Wing Of GOP Leads Health Reform Repeal Effort, Pledges To Repeal ‘The Whole Thing’
A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest to expose a red-rock wonderland drowned decades ago.
Would it be another pathetic attempt by a local conglomerate to create yet another monument to French gastronomy by putting sad shriveled up escargots on the menu?
Bulldozers are busy establishing Sherritt's four-billion-dollar nickel mine - one of the world's five largest mining projects - and building a pipeline, ripping through the shrivelling natural habitat of the endangered indri lemur. ANC Daily News Briefing
All the build up of delight shrivelled and stripped Jay to lonely self-scourging.
Both diseases result in lightweight, shriveled kernels that may be moldy.
In the morning when I arose, I found my hoofes shriveled together with cold, and unable to passe upon the sharpe ice, and frosty mire, neither could I fill my belly with meate, as I accustomed to doe, for my master and I supped together, and had both one fare: howbeit it was very slender since as wee had nothing else saving old and unsavoury sallets which were suffered to grow for seed, like long broomes, and that had lost all their sweet sappe and juice. The Golden Asse
Whenever I go to a party, I shrivel up and hope no one will notice me.
The shriveled black olives are then vacuumed up with machines that look like street cleaners.
And some may think they can later repent and be shriven, and God will forgive them. The Tudors: King Takes Queen
A pair of bright eyes, shaded by bushy white brows, glittered in his brown face -- seamed and wrinkled like the bark of a gnarled oaklike gay flowers amid withered leaves, forming a strange contrast to his lean, bowed, and shrivelled form. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
A Shrivenham florist made a wedding at Cricklade a happy event by stepping in after a Swindon firm failed to deliver the bride's bouquet and 30 buttonholes for guests.
Avoid very shriveled dates, or dates with sugar crystals on the skin.
The stalks that remain support runty, shriveled buds.
It comes from the Roman Catholic practice of confessing one's sins and being absolved of them, or ‘shriven’.
In most cases, her shame would be all but shriveled up by now.
Elchies, a shrivelled atomy with a hirpling walk, leaning heavily upon a rattan, both with the sinister black tri-corne hats in their hands, and flanked by a company of musketeers. Doom Castle
It probably wasn't her, I lied to myself, and tried not to imagine her curly brown hair shrivelling when the. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Dick was paying some tribute to things unforgotten, unshriven, unexpurgated. Tender is the Night
As the drought shriveled the acres of sideoats grama and bluestem grass on his property, Epperson, 57, was forced to sell off all but 90 of his 400 cows and 800 of his 3,000 goats. Drought puts cattle ranchers at a crossroads
Years ago, the worst possible thing that could happen to a person was to die unshriven - or to die with sins still not forgiven.
Ms. Shriver officially became involved in helping people with developmental problems when she became the executive vice-president of a family organization in nineteen fifty-seven.
Her poor shriveled body cells were kept alive artifically.
Readers may wish, however, that Shriver had cauterized some of their diatribes. So Much for That: Summary and book reviews of So Much for That by Lionel Shriver.
He found that if he surgically removed the testicles of his dogs—and thereby depleted the dogs of the hormone testosterone—the prostate gland involuted and shriveled and the fluid secretion dried up precipitously. The Emperor of All Maladies
In addition, among those who had died unshriven, had not received a Christian burial and whose souls were denied passage into the next world, an important place was occupied by those suspected of witchcraft.
His wife of 16 years is Maria Shriver, NBC newsreader and a niece of former president John F Kennedy, so it is no surprise that Schwarzenegger is into politics as well as being a dedicated do-gooder.
I should never have spoken love to you at all, or if I did, I should have told you of the blight upon it; but the sky and the trees and the hill were clothed that night in the beauty that wrapt my soul and I thought that God had forgotten and had shrived me in the same sacred light. St. Cuthbert's
The bottom line is that the seed of humanity in each of us can grow more vibrant with love or can shrivel through neglect. Vivian Glyck: What Christian Bale Taught Me About Parenting
Me, the heir of their founder — me, whom their foundation binds them to pray for — me — ungrateful villains as they are! — they suffer to die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled! — Ivanhoe
The householder, a shrivelled, goitrous humpback, received me kindly, removed his pot of cabbage from the fire to brew tea for his uninvited guest, and showed great gratitude (to such an extent that he nearly fell into the fire as he moved to push the children forward towards me) when Across China on Foot
They could only leave their pond for a few minutes before they began to shrivel up and die. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
The creature's long, notched sword plied air with a swift surety that Conan took diligent care to avoid; and yet the vacancies of the shriveled leathern bindings at the strange warrior's elbows and ankles did not appear to contain any form, not even bones. Conan The Warlord
They leaned steeper, into a gale that shrivelled eyes that streamed with freezing tears. COUP D'ETAT
Hot, dry summers have thawed permafrost layers and shriveled berry crops.
Her mother began to shrivel while Naomi swayed like a tigress. Lorelei
And there it was, all shrivelled up, looking at me.
Even conventional farmers in California, beset by the heat wave there, are learning how fragile those presumptions can be, as they complain of wine grapes shriveled into raisins.
By “withering,” I assume you mean shrivelling, fading or decaying. Britney and Paris Mum on McCain Ad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Manangatang (n.) - the shrivelling of one's tongue as a direct result of consuming undiluted powered orange beverage mix. THE SCATTERHEART SMALLTOWN COMPETITION
And take that Hal Holbrook-looking, shriveled up, wrinkled hosebag bigot Geraldine Ferraro with you. Clinton: 'This is nowhere near over'
Moreover, contrition must be continual, and a man must keep and hold a steadfast purpose to shrive himself and to amend his way of life.
That's everything since Patera Silk shrived me, like I said, Calde of the Long Sun
There was, of course, no denying that Willie's disregard for the meal hour had become what she termed "chronical" and severely taxed her forbearance; or that since she was a creature of human limitations she did at times protest when the chowder stood forgotten in the tureen until it was of Arctic temperature; nor had she ever acquired the grace of spirit to amiably view freshly baked popovers shrivel neglected into nothingness. Flood Tide
They could only leave their pond for a few minutes before they began to shrivel up and die. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
Around 150 people enjoyed a performance by jazz quartet John Currie's Hot Stuff and barbershop singers the Ringtones in the grounds of Peter's Shrivenham Road home.
Something in her that had, at first, revolted in anger and frustration at her own helplessness, now shrivelled and atrophied.
All the hideous excrescences that have overgrown our modern life, the pomps and conventions and dreary solemnities, dread nothing so much as the flash of laughter which, like lightning, shrivels them up and leaves the bones bare.
The resultant plants were nothing more than shriveled clumps.
The grass upon which he had been laying shriveled up, black and as delicate as stalks of ash.
Then did Sir Lancelot's heart almost burst with sorrow; and when he had finished praying and weeping, he kneeled unto the bishop and prayed him to shrive him and assoil him. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
The shriveled black olives are then vacuumed up with machines that look like street cleaners.
It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
Indeed I was greeted in Italian by a shrivelled old lady in a white habit.
So having secured the barrico (and with no small to-do) I hove it ashore and got myself after it, and so came mighty despondent where sat Sir Richard as one deep in thought, his gaze on the sea, his shrivelled hand upon the head of the dog Pluto crouched beside him. Martin Conisby's Vengeance
I lost myself in something like nirvana, grew so subject to the idea of vastness in geological time that all human desires and purposes shrivelled to ridiculous unimportance. Born in Exile
'I'm confessed and shriven of all manner of follies,' said Elis sturdily, 'that among them. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
I see that I am standing beside an iron seat of poor design in that grey and gawky waste of asphalte — Trafalgar Square, and the botanist, with perplexity in his face, stares from me to a poor, shrivelled, dirt-lined old woman — my God! what a neglected thing she is! — who proffers a box of matches .... A Modern Utopia
As biodiversity shrivels, we lose a vast store of information and potential cures.
It can be forty below zero with soul-shrivelling winds, and while the rest of us are wrapped in layers of down and still freezing our asses off, this woman will be strolling down Bank Street, pulling her cart, dressed in just her little blue sunsuit, with not a goosebump on her. Hot Woman and Pita Bread « knitnut.net
Examine bulbs, corms, and tubers for shriveling and rot.
His was the good fortune to witness Sheppard's encounter with the topsman, and to shrive the battered soul of Jonathan A Book of Scoundrels
In principle, continuity is eminently desirable but the principle shrivels if what is being continued doesn't have demonstrable worth.
But this one fairly sneers at us as she takes our order; although I kind of shrivels up in the chair and acts as humble as I know how. Shorty McCabe on the Job
The stalks that remain support runty, shriveled buds.
Since they remained unburied and unshriven, these unfortunates, as was noted earlier, were regarded as unclean dead.
Somehow, somewhere between Orchard Road, Raffles City and Chinatown markets my sense of financial responsibility lost its oxygen supply, shrivelled up and died discreetly.
His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise.
Frowning direfully, she viciously decapitated another shriveled set of blooms. The Ideal Bride
We are not like the Republicans when Teddy Roosevelt shrived off the Bull Moose Party. Dem Party Leaders To Super-Dels: Decide This Week
I hope the small PA town you live in shrivels up and all the jobs are gone. MoveOn announces launch date for anti-McCain ad buy
But consider yourself lucky: if I were really to blog about our sex life you KNOW that your testicles would shrivel from the embarassment. You’re so vain | Her Bad Mother
The lack of rain has shrivelled the crops.
Buy soft fruit with wrinkled and shriveled skin.
our shriveled receipts during the storm
Thy seidstaff passed over the leaves that, burning with fire-sparks, symbolled the life of the man, and from the third leaf the flame leaped up and died; and again a voice from thy breast, hollow, as if borne from a hill-top afar, made answer, 'At thine entrance to manhood life bursts into blaze, and shrivels up into ashes.' Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
In the week immediately before lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him and make pancakes.
As the drought shriveled the acres of sideoats grama and bluestem grass on his property, Epperson, 57, was forced to sell off all but 90 of his 400 cows and 800 of his 3,000 goats. Drought puts cattle ranchers at a crossroads
Both diseases result in lightweight, shriveled kernels that may be moldy.
A shrivelled woman, Yasmin, spoke for them.
My insides curl and shrivel, I am dying, slowly, by inches. A MEANS TO EVIL
Eleven years of age, she had at last begun to grow in earnest: her legs were as of old mere spindleshanks, but nearly twice as long; and her fat little body, perched above them, made one think of a shrivelled-up old man who has run all to paunch. The Getting of Wisdom
They sat for a time before Emily said, again softly, "I'm not ready to shrivel and die. TOGETHER ALONE
After birth, the cord was cut, and where it was attached to your body it shrivelled up and formed a scar known as your belly button.
They squirmed, shrivelled and after a brief struggle, gave up the ghost.
The sweat that coated his body was starting to reek and he felt himself shrivelling under her gaze as he slipped out of her. The Promise
Avoid very shriveled dates, or dates with sugar crystals on the skin.
The kids rent a rain forest cocoa tree as an Earth Day present for Ms. Frizzle. But when the harvest arrives, there's only one shriveled cocoa bean! Ms.
In October, when the grapes have shriveled to raisins, Kister sends them off to a packer for processing and marketing.
The leaves die, of course, and in their shriveled state present no threat when it snows.
My insides curl and shrivel, I am dying, slowly, by inches. A MEANS TO EVIL
Every other type of birth control is a mortal sin for which you go directly to hell if unshriven at the hour of death. Fall On Your Knees
His hair was wild and brown, his skin shriveled from untold hours in the sun. ALL I DID WAS LOOK • by David Dalglish
My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me
She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with masspriest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men's oil to his limbs. Ulysses
I hop into a brightly painted chicken bus called Dorita next to a tiny, shrivelled woman with a nut-brown walnut face, and set off back to Antigua.
Soak the roots in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting if they are dry or if the stems seem shrivelled, then trim any damaged roots and cut back very long ones to about 30 cm.
It was as if her past had been sprayed with defoliant, withering before her eyes to a shrivelled meaningless husk. THE LAST TEMPTATION
And then he kneeled down on his knee, and prayed the Bishop to shrive him and assoil him. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
Stand shrivelled dahlia tubers in warm water overnight to revive them.
Patience and the butt in time revealed him the best fish of the day, and I heaved a sigh of relief and sat down on a rock for breath when the gaff lifted him out, the priest shrived him, and the balance stood at 20 1/2 lb. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
And in that instant her heart seemed to burst with love inside her and simultaneously shrivel with grief and helplessness.
The animal contracts, loses water, and takes on a shriveled, wrinkled appearance.
A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
And after I wrote that, I had a daymare of seeping, crushing cold innocence rising up from Fort Lauderdale oddly, it's grey with bright purple spots and slowly, implacably crushing all in its way...only to go about 1 tenth of a mile before getting distracted by some of Broward County's more fun sex stores, immediately putting on some nice red stuff and shrivelling up with all of the corruption, unable to resist. Another randomness post:
In the cage on his left lived a sycophantish, shrivelled, grey monkey from India who salaamed for tidbits of food; on his right were a troup of patchy buffoons who swung and tumbled about their cage to attract attention. The Complete Stories
Zhuang People regard the sprout and the shriveling of "Long" as the information of four seasons. They think it a great event to prohibit cutting trees and cultivate Feng Shui.
Our ancestors feared, the narrator observes, that ‘they might go to their creator unshriven.’
The church-clock on the cliffs had struck four times; a deep-toned, weary bell, that tolled for every quarter, and must often have been heard, at dead of night, by dying men, drowning unshriven and unhouselled. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
He had retired amongst these ruins of transitory greatness to warn his fellow-creatures against carnal passions, prayed for the dead and shrived the living. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
We have seen that with porn channels in cable situations where finally they kind of shrivel up a little bit. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What Is the State of Journalism? - March 31, 2000
In the third quarter, when the financing company was hard hit by the freeze in credit markets, it paid executives $28 million in what it called retention payments to make up for the shriveled value of their long-term incentive plans. TARP Puts the Brakes on GMAC Executives' Pay
Buy soft fruit with wrinkled and shriveled skin.
Among self-identified whites in Shriver’s sample, the average black admixture is only 0.7 percent. Sioux Falls Gets Burundians
And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
Developed and developing nations were united when confronted with the collapse of world trade and the shrivelling of industrial output but are finding it harder to keep the show on the road now that the immediate crisis is over. G20 accord: you go your way, I'll go mine

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