He had a half-defiant look, like a cornered stag, as he stood there protecting a small wizen-faced woman of an uncertain age, dressed in a long gray silk duster and pigeon-winged hat-one of those hats that looked as if the pigeon had alighted on it and exploded.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Stella's eyes also rested upon the tiny wizen face.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
Do you remember a wizen, toothless old wretch, whose eye has more of the Evil One in it than that of many a young thief you see locked up in the county jails?
"Hand and Ring"
Anna Katharine Green