shrunken-looking

Updated: May 1, 2025

But something within her now began a groping for words; for words that should follow an ancient plea beginning, "O God of my Fathers " But at that the picture of the room came back to her mental vision the room so quiet except for the breathing of the woman on the bed; the woman with the tolerant, humorous mouth, and the straight, clever nose, and the softly bright brown eyes, all so strangely pinched and shrunken-looking now

Edna Ferber - Fanny Herself

"Is the trouble at the brewery?" asked a shrunken-looking woman, opening a door on the corridor, a faded shawl over her head. She was a new-comer, and had been in the tenement only a week or so not long enough to have the run of the house or to know her neighbors. "Yes; at Schwartz's," said Mrs. Todd, stopping opposite her door on the way to her own rooms. "Your man's got a job there, ain't he?"

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Tom Grogan