bear fruit vs shrivel

bear fruit

verb
  • To succeed in some task; to achieve benefit from a task or project. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, fruit. 

shrivel

verb
  • To become wrinkled. 

  • To collapse inward; to crumble. 

  • To draw into wrinkles. 

How often have the words bear fruit and shrivel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )