The small wizen-faced man smiled, as Moslems say, the smile of Umar.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

When their crier, a small wizen-faced man, began the Azan with a voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

He looked dazedly at wizen-faced lads who gathered round ice-cream stalls, and at hungry folks who ate stewed peas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

“Get ye out, Mr. Polonius!” said the old lady, a little wizen-faced old lady, with her face puckered up in a million of wrinkles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference

Paul, looking down at the speaker, saw a weak-looking, wizen-faced boy, with pale, thin cheeks, and one shoulder slightly higher than the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

It is needless to say, after entering so largely into a description of Lady Gorgon, that her husband was a little shrivelled wizen-faced creature, eight inches shorter than her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bedford-Row Conspiracy] Reference

At length a small wizen-faced man appeared from below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in a Boat] Reference

Then, from out of the trees, a small wizen-faced man in short trousers and natty grey cap appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

He is a small, wizen-faced man, quiet, self-contained, and fond -- exceedingly fond -- of having his own way.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference

"Get ye out, Mr. Polonius!" said the old lady, a little wizen-faced old lady, with her face puckered up in a million of wrinkles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference

Oh, that wizen-faced little lawyer that lives on the Tom Dorgans and the Nance Oldens, who don't know which way to turn to get the money!.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Bishop's Carriage] Reference

The driver was a little wizen-faced man of doubtful years, and he did not appear obviously susceptible to the importance of his passenger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Canyon] Reference

The door of the stateroom opposite to which the injured man lay opened suddenly, and a little, wizen-faced man, wearing spectacles, looked out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code] Reference

At the summons, a thin, wizen-faced, stubbly-bearded man of fifty, his shirt-front stained with tobacco-juice, rose from his seat and took the stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Under Dog] Reference

Oddly enough, the cab, when it came, proved to be a four-wheeler driven by a little, wizen-faced man whose thin, high-pitched voice was singularly familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price] Reference

Val-lay meant nothing, hoss even less; as for a garden, he vaguely understood what that was: a place where beans grew, and potatoes; yes, and wizen-faced prunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference

On he went and up, past the wizen-faced clock, and so reached the upper hall at the further end of which was the dim light that shone from behind a half-closed door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference

'Well, I'd have more spirit than to cry,' she said, as Stephen brushed his eyes with his sleeve; 'I'd never have spoken so gingerly to them, the wizen-faced old rascals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern's Hollow] Reference

Amid screams of laughter poor little Dolittle, a comical, wizen-faced old man, nervously secured a nickel from the corner of his handkerchief, and, grinning broadly, walked up with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches] Reference

It is needless to say, after entering so largely into a description of Lady Gorgon, that her husband was a little shrivelled wizen-faced creature, eight inches shorter than her Ladyship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bedford-Row Conspiracy] Reference

He listened attentively while the wizen-faced little headman gave a detailed account, not only of the present dispositions, but also of what had been seen during the short march to M'tela's stronghold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leopard Woman] Reference

So, presently, Barnabas suffered Captain Slingsby to lead him from the room, and down the somewhat dark and winding stair, past the wizen-faced clock, out into the street already full of the glow of evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference

Barnabas as though he lolled there dead, with the dagger smitten sideways through his throat, and in that moment Barnabas fancied he could hear the deliberate tick-tock of the wizen-faced clock upon the stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference

Then, at one o'clock next morning, he had hurriedly taken his bag and left for Dijon, where at noon he had been met in the Café de la Rotonde by a little wizen-faced old Frenchwoman in seedy black, who had travelled for two days and nights in order to meet him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime] Reference

Thus, moving ever backwards, Barnabas came to the front door, felt for the catch, but, with his hand upon it, paused once more to listen; yet heard only the thick beating of his own heart, and the loud, deliberate ticking of the wizen-faced clock upon the stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference

In the rich yurta draped with expensive silk we discovered a feeble, wizen-faced little old man with shaven face and cropped hair, wearing also a high pointed beaver cap with red silk apex topped off with a dark red button with the long peacock feathers streaming out behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts, Men and Gods] Reference

Now after a while Barnabas stepped into the gloomy hall and stood listening; the house was very silent, only upon the stillness he could hear the loud, deliberate tick of the wizen-faced clock upon the stairs, and, as he stood there, it seemed to him that to-night it was trying to tell him something.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference

They were only little wizen-faced men and women, who had never learned to laugh or smile or play; little pinched faces with weak eyes that had never seen God's green fields; little dirty ears that had been bruised with a thousand beastly noises, but had never heard the murmur of beautiful waters in the depths of a forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The One Woman] Reference

The small wizen-faced man smiled, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference

"Yes, I am," said the wizen-faced man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in a Boat] Reference

The wizen-faced frump!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series] Reference