"Wilted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... did it was a wilted one. However, Miss Armstrong did not wait for comment on the part of her escort, but chatted straight on. Jed learned that her mother's name was Mrs. Ruth Phillips Armstrong. "It used to be Mrs. Seymour Armstrong, but it ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... went with a basket of June roses, she being not quite up to it that day, there on the flat stone I saw with my own eyes a little crumpled bunch of daisies—all nipped off short, such as children pick, and crushed and wilted in their hot little hands! And on no other tomb but his. But I was used to ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... meekly, "he wilted, did our Simon of B. B. calibre, and he gave back the command to Smith. And Smith's first order, his very first order, sir, was that the Department, the whole fifty thousand, should march into Shrevepoht and—and surrender, ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... Lying on the floor of a railway carriage I tried to sleep, pillowed involuntarily on someone's boot. I never knew to whom that foot belonged, for the compartment was chaos, like the world. The carriage light was feeble, and the faces I saw above me drooped under the glim, wilted and dingy. The eyes of the dishevelled were shut, and this traveller, counting the pulse of the wheels beneath, presently forgot everything ... there was a crash, and my heart bounded me to my feet. There had been a fortnight of excitements of this kind. A bag fell ...
— Waiting for Daylight • Henry Major Tomlinson
... them forth. Their forlorn and wilted appearance as they formed in line went to my heart. I was resolved to ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene
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