How To Use Wrought In A Sentence
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Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
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She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother.
The Brothers Karamazov
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We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
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Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
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They cheer as they spill out of their cars, scrambling up the wrought-iron gate and backflipping into the yard like an invading army.
THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE
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Since the late '70s, and the fashion upheaval wrought by punk rock, people have been spearing the little metal pins through their ears or leather jackets.
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There is no floral chintz, no shelves packed with knick-knacks; there's no ornate wrought iron, no statuary, no bookshelves.
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Church's shoulders to reach to his ancles, and curiously inwrought with figures of birds, beasts and flowers.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
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Minus the film interaction, however, the opus suffered from overwrought verbiage and meandering vignettes.
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We infatuate humanity with overwrought images of success and riches.
Dying America Needs A Miracle
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Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
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In the North Alley of the said Nine Altars, there is another goodly faire great glass window, called Joseph's Window, the which hath in it all the whole storye of Joseph, most artificially wrought in pictures in fine coloured glass, accordinge as it is sett forth in the Bible, verye good and godly to the beholders thereof.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
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The wrought-iron etagere and assorted knick-knacks, their rock-maple dinette set, pine bedroom suite.
Garden
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Some overwrought writing mars an otherwise sharp and insightful exploration of homophobia in the deep South.
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He was put on a little silver tray, and an ingeniously wrought siphon showered him with pure water, which the faqir had no doubt drawn from some sacred well or spring.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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Before a few stood braziers and camp fires from the night before, allowing for a few of the arrows to be wrought in flame.
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She dismissed the thought as the result of her overwrought imagination, but it was all she could do not to run the last few steps to her cell.
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I feel that I have not yet penetrated truly what this book is about, although it surely depicts the hapless life of someone who lives in narcissistic illusion as well as the damage wrought by others who are the same but in a different style.
"To Make the Bears Dance"
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3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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This is what nature has done; as for men, they have hugely painted the lakeward wall of the castle with the arms of the Canton Vaud, which are nearly as ugly as the arms of Ohio; and they have wrought into the roof of the tallest tower with tiles of a paler tint the word "Chillon," so that you cannot possibly mistake it for any other castle.
A Little Swiss Sojourn
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Uranian mind-vibes can sometimes get Mercurial Virgos overwrought and on edge.
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Only a few well-wrought action sequences may hold the reader's strained interest ...
The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks: Book summary
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I feere mee, I have wroughte thee myckle woe [92].
The Rowley Poems
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Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth.
Apocrypha « BAHAY TALINHAGA
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Even Larry, barefooted now, and with both hands tightly clenched, such was his wrought-up condition, stood and watched with burning eyes as the aeroplane sank lower and lower in its forward swoop.
The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
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Such demographic changes wrought by industrialism meant the decline of rural parishes and the creation of a new urbanised and industrial poor.
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I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
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SO was there sikerness made on both parties that no treason should be wrought on neither party; so then the knights departed and made them ready, and that night Sir Uwaine had great cheer.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Both depict big, bold animals freely and use collage and richly wrought texture.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was in a very overwrought state after the accident.
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I pondered all that Chade had wrought, and why he had deliberately withheld this threat to me from my knowledge.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Around his neck hung a silver pendant wrought elegantly into the shape of a dragon.
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I’m trying to stay very optimistic and excited about the whole thing, but deep down I know that I’m going down in a blaze of gunfire, in a handbasket, that is on fire, and filled with electric eels, in the midst of a meteor shower, surrounded by my mother’s nagging voice, only to end it all by being impaled on a wrought iron fence.
Whitehelmet Diary Entry
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There are stone benches, wrought-iron fences and gates, wall fountains, pots, pillars, and antique baskets.
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Where Brecht uses song or projected words upon a screen, Shakespeare is more likely to use choric characters who may utter highly wrought poetic speeches of some length only to disappear for the rest of the play.
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Overweight, overtired and overwrought with grief, Duncan presented an excessively undisciplined body.
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A legendary relic, a dragon-wrought amulet, the Heart of Fire may be the salvation of her people, and Sorcha is willing to pay any price to obtain it, but when she discovers the price is the loss of her humanity, she learns caution too late.
Romance Divas » 2007 » February
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Wander our surviving early 18th-century streets and look at the finely wrought brick window arches, the mellow brick and precise pointing or the well-cut stone, and the erudite door surrounds, the miniature porticoes leading into the sacred environs of the home.
British architecture: Georgian
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The stained-glass windows inside, and the black wrought iron and living or artificial flowers outside, contribute vivid accents.
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Mony a day hae I wrought my stocking and sat on my sunkie under that saugh. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
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And aside from an overwrought moment or two, all four actors turn in gracefully subtle and passively implosive performances.
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He commands this role, speaking in a frenzied bark of orders, put-downs and overwrought egomania.
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The emotions rise from the subtext and take center-stage in rousing number after number until my ability to respond to rousing music kind of numbed out -- although that may have been because I found the music bland -- except for those based most directly on actual ragtime, which were much fresher than the over-wrought ballads and anthems of the rest.
Ragtime
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Wrought iron and upholstered furniture, made-to-measure and ready-made curtains and a wide range of fabrics are all found in the company's new brochure.
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She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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To her, in these days of imminent dismay, my thoughts flew out as to a fair protecting saint; until the inspiration of her visionary presence wrought in my fancy with such a dramaturgic power, that I seemed to walk daily with her, and to know all those delicate and sweet propinquities by which liking passes into affection and affection is glorified into love.
Apologia Diffidentis
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The station had been built in 1876 and British Rail wanted to duplicate the ornate original wrought ironwork but the plans had gone missing.
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His active brain, stimulated by a desire for wealth, and an egotism which might be called impracticable, wrought out original plans of farming without number.
The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.
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They all chose the heavy wrought-iron lawn furniture painted blinding white.
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It was, my friend, necessary upon the foregoing occasion, to insist much upon the finished salvation wrought out by our Re - deemer; all knowledge of the character of Jesus Christ, seemed to be lost among the greater part of the people.
Letters, and sketches of sermons : in three volumes
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Ask, O my lord, thy want," quoth the servitor, and quoth the other: "I demand of thee a carpet of the primest brocade all gold-inwrought which, when unrolled and outstretched, shall extend hence to the Sultan's palace, in order that the Lady Badr al-Budur may, when coming hither, pace upon it and not tread common earth.
Tehran Winter
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When I say knowingly, I mean knowing what it is to be a child of God and to be born again; and when I say believingly, I mean for the soul to believe, and that from good experience, that the work of grace is wrought in him.
The Riches of Bunyan
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The steel roof has been coloured to match the finish of the original wrought iron.
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If one victim appeased his nervous fervor the trial was over but if his wrought-up feelings desired more his screechings continued until a second victim was secured.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
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O afflicter of thy foes, in compensation for all this vast misery wrought by Dhritarashtra's son, thou wilt attain to proportional happiness after having killed thy foes, O great king, O lord of men, the ways of the world are known to thee.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
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That being a miracle, the babu forthwith wrought another one, and within a minute King's one trunk was checked through to Delhi.
In The Time Of Light
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In other words, he was an easy, if overwrought, target.
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It was a knife home-wrought and crudely fashioned from a whip-saw file; a knife such as one may find possessed by old men in a hundred Alaskan villages.
THE DEATH OF LIGOUN
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The poem depicts the workings of an imminent deity that has the power to reanimate himself in every ‘face’ and take on the form of any human being, even the ‘dark skins His Father wrought.’
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By what right did this ragged beachcomber, in dungaree trousers and a cotton shirt, suggest such a thing as peace and content to him and his overwrought, exhausted soul?
THE SEED OF McCOY
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Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner.
Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
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The graceful arch of the main beach is transplanted from an early 20th Century French daydream, with a broad pedestrian corniche punctuated by graceful wrought iron lamps.
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The whole team is super excited to officially be launching the a.d. schwarz line for the first time in New York with some limited quantities of handwrought sustainably-harvested wood jewelry and Sofala plates.
Summer Rayne Oakes: High-End African Design Debuts in New York, NY
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Connacht woman, but an out-and-out Connamara quean, and when only thirteen had wrought with the lads who used to make the raal cratur on the islands between Ochterard and Bally na hinch.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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How great were the reductions in monitoring and turnover costs wrought by the tractor and the mechanical cotton picker?
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I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
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[3] "And, that which all faire workes doth most aggrace, The art, which all that wrought, appeared in no place.
The Dawn and the Day Or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part I
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She would tell of the sadistic punishment wrought unto the unbelievers by the just who trusted in her righteousness.
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But the devastation already wrought in it is heartrending to contemplate.
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The wrought-iron gates clanged shut behind me.
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The balcony is a slight open-work wrought-iron structure, connected to a small roof by three slender voluted pillars, two at the ends, one in the middle: and at the middle one I saw someone, a woman -- kneeling -- her arms clasped tight about the pillar, and her face rather upward-looking.
The Purple Cloud
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Small wonder, perhaps, that his earth, air, fire, and water were wrought into different blends - the materials of the natural world - through the agency of the colourful principles Love and Strife.
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Some for the words -- in raiment of needlework -- propose another rendering, "on variegated (or embroidered) cloths" -- that is, in the manner of the East, richly wrought tapestry was spread on the ground, on which the bride walked.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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She was in a very overwrought state after the accident.
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The company produces wrought iron gates, fencing, railings and balustrades.
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So the kings said that they would give him all things soever that he desired, and therewith was a great army got ready, and all things wrought in the most heedful wise, ships and all war-gear, so that his journey might be of the stateliest: but Sigurd himself steered the dragon-keel which was the greatest and noblest; richly wrought were their sails, and glorious to look on.
The Story of the Volsungs
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The same salt may be used to caseharden wrought iron.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884
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Shorn of the ostentatious nostalgia that afflicts too many period films, The House of Mirth is a bracing, cleanly wrought spiral of a film, a chiller in the true sense of the word.
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He gasped as he saw how much destruction she had wrought with the hammer.
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His overwrought extemporizing on Monday night proved that his ego's still in it; maybe his political imagination will rejoin the wagon train at some future stop.
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Advertisements, that wrought a revolution in that department of literature, my uncle was brought to realise not only the lost history, but also the enormous field for invention and enterprise that lurked among the little articles, the dustpans and mincers, the mousetraps and carpet-sweepers that fringe the shops of the oilman and domestic ironmonger.
Tono Bungay
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The most notable feature was the pothook, or cremaillière, a substantial wrought-iron support, usually adjustable, from which cooking pots could be hung above the fire.
Savoring The Past
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scallawag" as I dote on him you also will declare that our anonymous poet has not wrought ill.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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In its pure form (wrought iron) the metal is tough but relatively soft.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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Houseproud John and Maggie Briggs filled the wrought-iron hayracks with trailing geraniums, busy Lizzies, wild cornflowers, lobelia and pansies.
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I have written before that any history of poetry is inevitably a history of change in poetry, and that an inevitable consequence is that the well-wrought urn is almost invariably a trivial accomplishment.
Only Change and No Urns?
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Yet perhaps because the book is so skillfully wrought, one wishes that it could have been written without not just foul language but also foully specific images, such as that of a 16-year-old girl sleeping with a sadistic drug dealer.
Desperate Kids On the Run
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The exposition was a hit and so were the elaborate plaster ornamentation, wrought-iron grills and tile roofs.
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She popped on reading glasses as she nestled on a wrought iron garden swing, flanked by her children, and began reading from the book.
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It even had a name, set in wrought iron letters above the closed-in driveway doors: "Casona de Tzintzuntzan", "the manor house in the place where the hummingbirds gather".
Renovating our Morelia house
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On view here are complex, deeply sculptured surfaces, wrought-iron grillwork, elaborately carved decorations surrounding round-arched windows, arcaded entrances and porches, and tile roofs.
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Properties of wrought products depend to some extent on the quality of the ingot from which they were made, especially thick plates or strip made from thin castings.
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What grocer, hardwareman, druggist, or any other of the different tradesmen of the metropolis, ever wrought out of nothing the majestic structures or the enormous traffic which is represented by some of our dry goods concerns.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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She could easily see all the changes the transformation wrought on her appearance, and she was glad for them.
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The street, lined with retro wrought-iron lamp posts and redwood benches that speak of an earlier effort at revival, is utterly quiet.
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A clothesbrush and a tin cup were the only foreign objects on the overwrought, gilded table to the other side of a red velvet chair beside the fringed canopy bed.
Temple of the Winds
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In what is called the silversmith's quarter, amid filthy lanes, full of dirty children, mangy dogs, and moping cats, we find hovels containing finely wrought silver ornaments manufactured on the spot by the natives.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands
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But they wrought their awful romances of crime in lands where the sun of supreme civilization, through a gorgeous evening of Sybaritic luxury, was sinking, with red tints of revolution, into the night of anarchy and national caducity.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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For others the prospect of the radical change which must be wrought is too heartrending to be contemplated and the comfort of the known is preferable.
Some Views on South Africa's Future
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A list of selected wrought copper alloy compositions and their properties is given in Table 1.
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The golden sisirum and the delicately-wrought nabla, the strings of which had long ago been broken, testified to her taste for music, while the broken spindle in the corner, and some unfinished nets of glass beads shewed that she had been fond of woman's usual work.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 10
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Speaking in really cogent, beautifully wrought paragraphs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Terrible havoc has been wrought in the neighbourhood of the sea front.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under this dome was a canopy of brocede, reposing upon pillars of red gold and wrought with figures of birds whose feet were of smaragd, and beneath each bird was a network of fresh-hued pearls.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It will take a generation or more to undo the damage that they have wrought.
Times, Sunday Times
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Otherwise, they were beautifully wrought postmodern constructions containing multiple ingredients to be blended and worked into suitable mouthfuls.
Times, Sunday Times
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Garbed was she in silken raiment of tenderest green, wrought upon with some quaint workmanship of gold and silver.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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From an ash-grey sky finely-wrought snowflakes descended, fluttering angularly in the calm air like the scraps of paper that Americans pour over their heroes – God was blessing the Revolution – and fighter planes flew overhead in formation, while others flew low over the highest towers of Russian history.
Archive 2009-09-01
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For Hugh, a 22-year-old IT worker, has wrought a minor miracle.
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They disclaim, however, all desire of employing compulsory measures for that purpose, but recommended every mode of encouragement, and particularly by augmented wages, "_in order to induce manufacturers of wrought silk to quit that branch and take to the winding of raw silk_.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
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Hers, I thought, must be a curious soul, where in spite of a strong, natural tendency to estimate unduly advantages of wealth and station, the sardonic disdain of a fortuneless subordinate had wrought a deeper impression than could be imprinted by the most flattering assiduities of a prosperous
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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Finally, in the Erechtheum the upper part or necking of the shaft is enriched with an exquisitely wrought band of floral ornament, the so-called honeysuckle pattern.
A History of Greek Art
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This is a finely wrought but not entirely unexpected sci-fi tale.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the end, when the ‘crisis’ has been resolved in the usual muddy compromise, people are embarrassed to look back and see how overwrought they had become.
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Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap.
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Before we left he showed me the wrought iron gates which bore the names of Glasgow's most illustrious graduates.
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That last label is the funniest of the three because a story about a notorious miser visited by four ghosts who scare the hell out of him to make him change his life is by definition overwrought.
Lev Raphael: Does A Christmas Carol Really Need to be Rescued?
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He'd come around and poke his hand through the outside wrought-iron grill, trying to close it.
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Until the industrial revolution, the most widespread use of iron was in its wrought form.
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The company produces wrought iron gates, fencing, railings and balustrades.
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the wrought silver bracelet
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Among the skills indigenous to this region are the Dokhra craft, woodcraft, embroidered attire, and wrought iron craft.
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This shining metal was not raw iron but hard steel, which bent the softer wrought-iron blades of the Gauls.
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A constitution which gets overwrought by emotional turmoil may find parenthood a tougher road.
The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
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And in the north aisle, in front of the parclose screen, the empty wrought-iron flower stand.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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The pure gold was wrought to form fragile golden leaves and dainty roses on a vine.
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Besides, he deliuereth vnto him a couering of greene veluet made in maner of a pyramis, about nine palmes high, and artificially wrought with most fine golde, and this is to couer the tombe of their prophet within Medina, which tombe is built in manner of a pyramis: and besides that couering there are brought many others of golde and silke, for the ornament of the sayde tombe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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December 20th, 2008 at 2: 01 pm indeed. an overwrought review of a sonic youth album for Ego Trip was the crowing achievement of my fleeting career in music criticism. noah callahan-bever – mid 90s berkeley carroll school represent!
Ego Trip | ATTACKERMAN
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This was nothing more nor less than strings of beads wrought out of clams, periwinkles, and other shell-fish, and called seawant or wampum.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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But others don't care if it's scientific nonsense because, hey, it's just a conceit, and there's a lot of thematic intricacy to be wrought in mirroring the protagonist through a non-supernatural analogue of the fantasy/horror doppelganger: switch critical faculties to "metaphor", roll up the sleeves, and get stuck into interpreting the text.
Narrative Grammars
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a footstep behind him, he turned round, and beheld approaching him a young and graceful form, habited in a white hacqueton wrought in gold, with golden spurs on his feet, and a helmet of the same costly metal on his head, crested with white feathers.
The Scottish Chiefs
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But nature could not long endure a pleasure that it so highly provoked without satisfying it: pursuing then its darling end, the battery recommenced with redoubled exertion; nor lay I inactive on my side, but encountering him with all the impetuosity of motion I was mistress of, the downy cloth of our meeting mount was now of real use to break the violence of the tilt; and soon, indeed! the highwrought agitation, the sweet urgency of this to-and-fro friction, raised the titillation on me to its height; so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
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The balustrade leading from lobby to the floor above was of ornate molded wrought iron capped with a teak rail.
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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
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It contains original details such as wainscoting, marble fireplaces and a grand marble and wrought-iron staircase.
Grazer Goes To Market Grazer Goes To Market
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I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
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They clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold, and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc and precious gold, and adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold-filleted Hours wear themselves whenever they go to their father's house to join the lovely dances of the gods.
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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This shining metal was not raw iron but hard steel, which bent the softer wrought-iron blades of the Gauls.
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Wrought iron contains only a few tenths of a percent of carbon, is tough, malleable, less fusible, and has usually a ‘fibrous’ structure.
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As for the walls of that chamber, they were hung with a marvellous halling of arras, wherein was wrought the greenwood, and there amidst in one place
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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Simple objects speak eloquently of the havoc wrought.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a richer thesis and a more finely wrought polemic than that.
Times, Sunday Times
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A stylish Philadelphia parlor is conceptually incomplete if the fireplace is not fitted with wrought-iron andirons and a cast-iron fireback.
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The effect of titanium and vanadium on the strength of wrought alloys appears to be negligible.
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He had never believed in fairies nor Santa Claus; but he had believed implicitly in the smiling future his imagination had wrought into the steaming cloth stream.
THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London
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It is unpredictable, and it is the equivalent of splitting the atom on the molecular level, and we all know what harm nuclear technologies have wrought.
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At times his work gets bogged down in its own abstract acrobatics, becoming contrived and overwrought.
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The canopy was supported by four ornate wrought iron columns that were leftover from the bandstand in the park.
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Here was he, the individual, very possibly placed on -- at all events, infesting -- a particular planet for a considerable number of years; the planet was so elaborately constructed, so richly clothed with trees and valleys and uplands and running waters and multitudinary grass-blades, and the body that housed Felix Kennaston was so intricately wrought with tiny bones and veins and sinews, with sockets and valves and levers, and little hairs which grew upon the body like grass-blades about the earth, that it seemed unreasonable to suppose this much cunning mechanism had been set agoing aimlessly: and so, he often wondered if he was not perhaps expected to devote these years of human living to some intelligible purpose?
The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
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The hero rubbed his fine, blessed necklace and frowned in thought, fingering the keenly wrought gold.
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Dr. Kenn, having a conscience void of offence in the matter, was still inclined to persevere, was still averse to give way before a public sentiment that was odious and contemptible; but he was finally wrought upon by the consideration of the peculiar responsibility attached to his office, of avoiding the appearance of evil, an appearance that is always dependent on the average quality of surrounding minds.
V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue
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China pugs guarded the hearth; a brass sunflower smiled from the top of either andiron, and a brass peacock spread its tail before them inside a high filigree fender; on one side was a coalhod in 'repousse' brass, and on the other a wrought iron wood-basket.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1
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To say that he discovers love and it changes him would simplify a situation, wrought with uncertainty.
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Her bombproof is three inches thick, and is made of wrought iron.
The American Iron-Clad Vessels
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These overwrought visitors to the site of the tragedy, clutch each other in their grief, almost inconsolable - until they return to their safe suburban homes and turn on the tv to await their next bite of reality.
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He breathed stertorously, and in his throat were the queer little gasping noises of one overwrought.
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The frock was made of fine white calico wrought with blue and red thread in flowers and branch designs.
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He opened the door for her and ushered her outside where a wrought iron table was set for a meal.
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Local kids play badminton on paths between immaculately manicured gardens, while at dusk, couples canoodle on wrought-iron benches under banyan trees that drape elegantly into the slow-flowing Pearl River.
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Thus, from the Assyrian researches as well as from other sources, it has come to be acknowledged by the most eminent scholars at the leading seats of Christian learning that the accounts of creation with which for nearly two thousand years all scientific discoveries have had to be "reconciled" -- the accounts which blocked the way of Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Laplace -- were simply transcribed or evolved from a mass of myths and legends largely derived by the Hebrews from their ancient relations with Chaldea, rewrought in a monotheistic sense, imperfectly welded together, and then thrown into poetic forms in the sacred books which we have inherited.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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A stylish Philadelphia parlor is conceptually incomplete if the fireplace is not fitted with wrought-iron andirons and a cast-iron fireback.
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The 40 are expected to appear in court today and will be charged with theft and the illegal possession and illegal trading in unwrought precious metal.
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It was set in the main body of the park reached through a wrought-iron gate, intricately moulded into beguiling patterns.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Streets with ornate buildings, balconies & shutters, sometimes painted seaside town colours, sometimes cracked and falling down netting on the outside to catch debris, wrought ironwork.
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By no great books or long treatises, but by a ceaseless flow of brevities and repetitions, is the pulverized thought of the world wrought into the soul.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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I would give the best habergeon I ever wrought, that the difficulty in truth rested with me, for there were then the better chance of its being removed.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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On the other hand, the straight-ahead rock, soul and Eurodance is the overwrought work of a man who should know better.
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The Wroughton-based appeal has collected and distributed hundreds of palettes of aid to disaster struck areas since the tsunami hit on December 26.
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I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
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She was so tired and overwrought that she burst into tears.
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Effulgent compose acts the role of ablaze series, extremely attractive inwrought craft series, be today the mainstream that Xia Liang pulls.
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Swiftly turning on the Frenchman, Crockett—his handsome visage wrought into an irate scowl—said: “Are you calling my pard a liar, mon-sewer?”
Nevermore
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One of the huge social and biological changes wrought by the invention of the oral contraceptive, the Pill, is that once and for all it divided sex from the act of fertilisation, of conceiving a baby.
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The question remains whether the carnage that was wrought from the air and by the relief columns was strictly necessary.
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So I opened the ambry, and within it was even more gloriously wrought than without; and there was nought therein, save
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Yoshimoto, however, is a legitimate storyteller, and avoids the overwrought sentiment that forces a reader to cry unwilling tears.
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Exports of steel, unwrought copper and copper alloy dropped by at least 50 per cent amid decreases in exports of garments, automatic data processing equipment and integrated circuits.
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Tilly delivers a particularly hilarious, overwrought performance, apparently channelling Courtney Love.
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I mean, the most overwrought jury in the history of America.
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Thus he did often to make the Captain slight such frays, and to make him secure, that he might not suspect any further end to be on it; which when he had wrought sufficiently (as he thought), he laid some men in ambuscado, and sent others away to drive such beasts as they should find in the view of the
Castle Dangerous
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The award for most overwrought writing about snow goes to…
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The phrase ‘to spike a cannon’ meant to disable it by driving a tapered wrought iron plug, or spike, down the touch hole with a hammer until it was level and firmly embedded.
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I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
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This is due to the Precious Metals Act, which stipulates that it is illegal for individuals to own unwrought gold (and uncut diamonds) in the country.
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A year on from their emergence into the public eye, we are swamped with soporific, overwrought, piano-led rock played by lip-trembling white boys with messy hair, student debts and fey voices.
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This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for unwrought aluminum.
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Vinyl replaced leather; bright prints superseded dark brocades; unadorned acrylic and plywood was employed instead of hardwood, and tubular steel instead of wrought iron.
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Yoshimoto, however, is a legitimate storyteller, and avoids the overwrought sentiment that forces a reader to cry unwilling tears.
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The tone of her latter words was equivocal, and while he remained in doubt whether a gentle irony was or was not inwrought with their sound, she swept lightly round and left him alone.
Wessex Tales
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I saw what the murderous, brutal regime of Saddam Hussein wrought on that country through his party and their fedayeen henchmen.
Letters to the Editor
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The Spanish style is reflected in the use of balconies, wrought iron, plaster and brick facades, arched windows and doors, and high ceilings.
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It's a beautifully wrought show.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a vibrant piece - perhaps a little overwrought to be fully credible - that promises quite a ride.
Times, Sunday Times
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He gasped as he saw how much destruction she had wrought with the hammer.
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But he was foredoomed, and he went down with the she-wolf tearing savagely at his throat, and with other teeth fixed everywhere upon him, devouring him alive, before ever his last struggles ceased or his last damage had been wrought.
The Battle of the Fangs
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This shining metal was not raw iron but hard steel, which bent the softer wrought-iron blades of the Gauls.
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‘Overwrought’ by the same token must mean ‘overworked’, yet I guess that at least 94% of us sometimes get overwrought for reasons unconnected with overworking.
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These alloys usually contain manganese as an impurity because wrought metal scrap is used in preparing them.
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What can it mean that people should live contentedly in the ruins of their own capital city, the ruination having been wrought not by war or natural disaster but by prolonged (and in my view deliberate) neglect?
