In swift dual vision they saw the same cruel picture: the Shriveling orange-trees, the blighted harvest of figs dropping withered from the trees, the flume dry and useless, the horse-trough empty and warping in the sun,-all the barren hopelessness of a mountain claim without water, familiar to both.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
And with no eyelids to close, and eyes which were themselves a mockery, the nerve Shriveling and never reaching the brain, what could sleep mean to them?
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
The face twisted in a sudden spasm, as if its brain were Shriveling with heat.
"Out Like a Light"
Gordon Randall Garrett