"the old woman's shriveled skin" "he looked shriveled and ill" "a shrunken old man" "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws" "he did well despite his withered arm" "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
"dried-up grass" "the desert was edged with sere vegetation" "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings" "withered vines"
