Instead of air-drying, the unwithered leaves are merely steamed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For as long as the rosemary was unwithered, she would be free of the spell. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)
Next day I went again, scarcely hoping to find it still unwithered; it was fresh as if only just opened; and after that I went often, sometimes at intervals of several days, and still no faintest sign of any change, the clear, exquisite lines still undimmed, the purity and lustre as I had first seen it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She was like a fine flower, already past its bloom and without fragrance, though the petals were still unwithered. ❋ Unknown (2003)
-- Do you suppose that I will rest -- while any of their branch is unwithered? do you suppose that I will turn aside till they are trodden under foot? ❋ Unknown (1998)
Occasionally I found a broken branch so fresh that it still carried unwithered leaves, as if unaware that its very world had passed away. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1987)
But the unfaded leaves and the unwithered flowers were all right. ❋ Norton, Andre (1970)
The time was ripe for a great change; scholasticism, long decaying, had begun to fall; the authority not only of school doctrines but of the church had been discarded; while here and there a few devoted experimenters were turning with fresh zeal to the unwithered face of nature. ❋ Various (N/A)
She would take it back into the keeping of her heart, and if a day should ever come when he would be free to return, and demand it of her, he would find it there, unwithered, with all the unbreathed perfume hoarded in its folded leaves. ❋ Various (N/A)
At first upright, the gorgeous bells droop downward, and fall unwithered to the ground, and are thence called by the Creoles "Cupid's Tears." ❋ Various (N/A)
[9] A curious illustration of the latter class of alterations came under the writer's notice last summer (1868), and which he has reason to believe has not been previously recorded, viz. the persistence in an unwithered state of the petals at the base of the ripe fruit, in a strawberry. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
To be most satisfactory, endive should be bought when it is fresh and unwithered and kept until used in a cool, damp place. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The few leaves which had drifted down were still unwithered, and only made the hoof-beats more soundless on the yielding earth, so that there was not a rustle at the noiseless passing of the pony and his rider. ❋ Nancy Huston Banks (N/A)
Faces still fresh and unwithered (for senility galloped so hard that it had no time to age the cheeksonly the heart and brain) turned as they passed. ❋ Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 (1932)
There were seventeen years between them and yet her shoulders were deeply white, and rose, quite unwithered, out of a jetted evening gown; and her profile, also with the heat lightning of a scarcely perceptible nervous quiver to it, entirely without the sag of tired flesh. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)
Within was no written word; only a spray of the trailing arbutus, still unwithered of its fairy-pink, still eloquent, in its wayward, woodland fragrance, of her who had worn it the night before. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)
The bark torn from trees was fresh and still moist; the leaves of the branches that had been broken off as the elephants fed along the way were still unwithered, and the flowers that had been crushed down by the great feet of the herd had lost little of their freshness and fragrance. ❋ John T. McCutcheon (1909)
It was all there in his mind like a tremendous dramatic poem: the great sunlit spaces of the elephant country watched over by the vultures, the eternal and illimitable forests old as Memnon, young as Spring, unwithered and unbroken by the suns and rains and storms of the ages; the river flooding to the sea, and the people to whom this place belonged, and the story of their misery and despair. ❋ Unknown (1907)
The other was cutting off the tops of the late thistles that still stood unwithered in the chill winter air, and arranging them according to size and colour. ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)
