Both Uses of
wrought
in
Great Expectations
- We sat in the dreamy room among the old strange influences which had so wrought upon me, and I learnt that she had but just come home from France, and that she was going to London.†
Chpt 29 *
- In the Eastern story, the heavy slab that was to fall on the bed of state in the flush of conquest was slowly wrought out of the quarry, the tunnel for the rope to hold it in its place was slowly carried through the leagues of rock, the slab was slowly raised and fitted in the roof, the rope was rove to it and slowly taken through the miles of hollow to the great iron ring.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(wrought as in: wrought iron) worked -- as when iron is shaped to fit by bending or beating