Can religion, then, be even more withering than science, since it has ravaged you like that, while I have yet remained an old madman, still full of fancies?"
La religion est-elle donc plus desséchante que la science, puisqu’elle t’a dévasté à ce point, lorsque je suis resté, moi, un vieux fou encore plein de chimères ! »
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
"I see how it is- I see how it is," impetuously interrupted Judith. "I am the one he sees fit to scorch with his withering tongue!
– J’entends, je vois ce que c’est, s’écria Judith avec impétuosité ; je suis la seule que sa langue de vipère ait jugé à propos d’attaquer.
Cooper, James Fenimore / The DeerslayerCooper, James Fenimore / Le tueur de daims
Balzac, Honore de / The Lily of the ValleyBalzac, Honore de / Le Lys dans la vallee
Le Lys dans la vallee
Balzac, Honore de
The Lily of the Valley
Balzac, Honore de
Pierre raised a dolorous cry: "No, no, the death born of doubt has swept through me, withering and shattering everything, and nothing more can live in that cold dust!"
Pierre eut un cri désolé. « Non, non ! la mort du doute a passé en moi, desséchant tout, rasant tout, et plus rien ne peut revivre dans cette poussière froide.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
Cucumbers and haricots die from the withering of their leaves.
Concombres et haricots, meurent par étiolaient des feuilles.
Le Bon, Gustave / The evolution of forcesLe Bon, Gustave / L'évolution des forces
Her hair was only just turning white, and she had kept all her teeth, while her face still looked refined, though it was slowly withering with age and had acquired an expression of some severity.
Dans son éternelle robe noire, avec toutes ses dents encore et ses cheveux qui blanchissaient à peine, elle gardait son fin visage d’autrefois, mais séché et jauni, devenu d’une sévérité douce.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
What frightful, withering blast could have swept over her ?
Quel vent d’effroyable déchéance avait donc passé ?
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
There the withered flowers, stifled by their own perfumes, exhaled but the faint odour of dead beauty.
Les fleurs, fanées, étouffées dans leur propre parfum, ne mettaient plus là que la senteur fade de leur chair morte.
Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
I could distinguish her pale, beautiful features. Her cheek was wan with weeping, and her rich golden hair hung dishevelled from her shoulders, reaching to the withers of her horse.
Je distinguais ses beaux traits couverts de pâleur, ses joues baignées de larmes, sa riche chevelure dorée qui pendait, dénouée, sur ses épaules, tombant jusque sur le cou de son cheval.
Reid, Mayne / The Scalp HuntersReid, Mayne / Les chausseurs de chevelures
The young man seemed to be stricken with a sort of dizzy stupor, his eyes receded farther and farther into the depth of their dark sockets, whilst his whole face became withered, aged as it were, and covered with an earthy pallor.
Il semblait frappé d’une stupeur de vertige, ses yeux s’enfonçaient de plus en plus au fond des orbites noires, tandis que la face entière se desséchait, vieillissait à vue d’œil, envahie d’une ombre grise, couleur de la terre.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Rome
Zola, Emile
Rougon felt quite touched at the sight of her spare withered face and all her scrupulous attention.
Rougon fut attendri devant cette figure sèche et étroite, aux manies d'ordre méticuleuses.
Zola, Emile / His ExcellencyZola, Emile / Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Zola, Emile
His Excellency
Zola, Emile
She also had become withered, her sunburnt, tanned face suggesting more than ever the beak of a bird of prey.
Elle aussi s’était desséchée, la face hâlée, tannée, telle qu’un bec d’oiseau.
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
This woman, whose feelings and passions had withered in the zealous virginity of a fanatic, experienced a vague sensation that there was awakening in her the yearning of wife and mother which exists in every maiden's nature.
Cette femme, dont le cœur et la chair avaient séché dans une virginité ardente de fanatique, sentit vaguement se réveiller en elle l’épouse et la mère qu’il y a au fond de toute vierge.
A woman who renews her life from that of her beloved gives, perhaps, a greater proof of feeling than she who dies killed by a doubt, withered on her stock for want of sap; I know not which of the two is the more touching.
Une femme qui revit sous les regards de l’aimé donne peut être une plus grande preuve de sentiment que celle qui meurt tuée par un doute, ou séchée sur sa tige, faute de sève; je ne sais qui des deux est la plus touchante.
Balzac, Honore de / The Lily of the ValleyBalzac, Honore de / Le Lys dans la vallee
Le Lys dans la vallee
Balzac, Honore de
The Lily of the Valley
Balzac, Honore de
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wither
verb
Basic forms
Past
withered
Imperative
wither
Present Participle (Participle I)
withering
Past Participle (Participle II)
withered
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I wither
we wither
you wither
you wither
he/she/it withers
they wither
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am withering
we are withering
you are withering
you are withering
he/she/it is withering
they are withering
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have withered
we have withered
you have withered
you have withered
he/she/it has withered
they have withered
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been withering
we have been withering
you have been withering
you have been withering
he/she/it has been withering
they have been withering
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I withered
we withered
you withered
you withered
he/she/it withered
they withered
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was withering
we were withering
you were withering
you were withering
he/she/it was withering
they were withering
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had withered
we had withered
you had withered
you had withered
he/she/it had withered
they had withered
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been withering
we had been withering
you had been withering
you had been withering
he/she/it had been withering
they had been withering
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will wither
we shall/will wither
you will wither
you will wither
he/she/it will wither
they will wither
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be withering
we shall/will be withering
you will be withering
you will be withering
he/she/it will be withering
they will be withering
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have withered
we shall/will have withered
you will have withered
you will have withered
he/she/it will have withered
they will have withered
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been withering
we shall/will have been withering
you will have been withering
you will have been withering
he/she/it will have been withering
they will have been withering
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would wither
we should/would wither
you would wither
you would wither
he/she/it would wither
they would wither
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be withering
we should/would be withering
you would be withering
you would be withering
he/she/it would be withering
they would be withering
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have withered
we should/would have withered
you would have withered
you would have withered
he/she/it would have withered
they would have withered
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice