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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Shrivel
 
  Shrivelled like belated daisies, before a north wind.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Shrivels like a scroll.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  2
  Shrivelled like a burning scroll.
            —Henry Hart Milman		  3
  Shrivel, like leaves when summer’s green recedes.
            —John Henry Newman		  4
  Shrivelling up his face, like an autumn leaf.
            —Tobias Smollett		  5
 
 
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