"I heerd the shootin'," said the boy, " up thar at the cave, 'n' I couldn't stay thar. I knowed ye could whoop him, Rome, 'n' I seed Steve, too, but I was afeard-" Then he saw the body. His tongue stopped, his face shrivelled, and Steve, hanging with one hand to the ledge, watched him curiously.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
By this time the Count and the doctor had reached the corner of the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin. One of those night-birds who wonder round with a basket on their back and crook in hand, and were, during the Revolution, facetiously called the Committee of Research, was standing by the curbstone where the two men now stopped. This scavenger had a shriveled face worthy of those immortalized by Charlet in his caricatures of the sweepers of Paris.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
There was a pause. Hermione heard the rustling of paper, then a drawer shut sharply. Vere was hiding away her poems! When Hermione understood that she felt the strong, good impulse suddenly shrivel within her, and a bitter jealousy take its place. Vere came to the door and opened it. "Oh, come in, Madre! What is it?" she asked. In her bright eyes there was the look of one unexpectedly disturbed.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
ARBUTHNOT. No, not for me. For me the world is shrivelled to a palm's breadth, and where I walk there are thorns.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
Nora's eyes looked as if their glance might shrivel the old lady's hair. "Don't I keep telling you that it is no such thing ? Can't you understand? It is all glamour! Fascination! Way up there in the wilderness! Only one even passable woman in sight."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
(Groans, laughter and uproar.) Well, isn't that the case? Isn't there an enormous difference between a well-bred and an ill-bred strain of animals? Take, for instance, a common barn-door hen. What sort of eating do you get from a shrivelled up old scrag of a fowl like that? Not much, do you! And what sort of eggs does it lay? A fairly good crow or a raven can lay pretty nearly as good an egg. But take a well-bred Spanish or Japanese hen, or a good pheasant or a turkey--then you will see the difference.英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
Probably should have held my tongue, but I just couldn't resist the chance to see him shrivel.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
I didn't realize you hippie chicks are tired of the same five shriveled dicks you've had for the last 40 years.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Because there was only a five percent chance of any of them surviving implantation in your shriveled-up uterus.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Well, I mean, she didn't look through me With soul-sucking, ball-shriveling Hatred and contempt.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》