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  • She wore a hand-wrought silver bracelet.
    wrought = worked
  • Dazed and hugging herself, Esperanza surveyed the surviving victims: the twisted forms of wrought-iron chairs, unharmed cast-iron skillets, and the mortars and pestles from the kitchen that were made from lava rock and refused to burn.   (source)
    wrought = worked (crafted)
  • The poplar trees lined the redbrick driveway, which led to a pair of wrought-iron gates.   (source)
  • Across from it was a handsome bank with arched windows and a wrought-iron door.   (source)
    wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)
  • Harry looked behind him and saw a wrought-iron archway where the barrier had been, with the words Platform Nine and Three-Quarters on it.   (source)
    wrought = worked (shaped by bending or beating)
  • His age is betrayed only by the creases across his brow and a proud, deeply pitted nose, over which a purple filigree of veins unfolds like a finely wrought tattoo.   (source)
    wrought = worked (crafted)
  • He passed through an archway of wrought-iron curlicues, and paused, squinting at the weedy rows of gravestones.   (source)
    wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)
  • He sat serene on his couch, drinking from his wrought-gold cup.   (source)
  • A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child's face.   (source)
  • Mother's so wrought up her cheeks are blotched with red,   (source)
    wrought = worked
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  • Then she lifted from her lap a great stone of a clear green, set in a silver brooch that was wrought in the likeness of an eagle with outspread wings;   (source)
  • The table service is of gold, and so beautifully wrought that it must be of immense value.   (source)
  • wrought with fruited vines   (source)
    wrought = worked (decoratively)
  • The screen was an old one, of gilt Spanish leather, stamped and wrought with a rather florid Louis-Quatorze pattern.   (source)
    wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)
  • By-and-by Tom's reading and dreaming about princely life wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to ACT the prince, unconsciously.   (source)
    wrought = worked
  • for whom first was that sword wrought   (source)
    wrought = shaped (worked)
  • He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it on his heart.   (source)
    wrought = worked (crafted)
  • It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.   (source)
  • No, it is not thus; your form so divinely wrought, and beaming with beauty, has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.   (source)
  • I found bowls of quartz crystal and wrought silver.   (source)
    wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)
  • I squirmed my way through the throng of guests and slipped through the wrought-iron gates.   (source)
    wrought = crafted (worked)
  • I squinted against the blinding white when Hassan and I stepped through the wrought-iron gates.   (source)
    wrought = worked (crafted)
  • When I reached the wrought-iron gates, Ali was waiting on the other side.   (source)
  • Then Eowyn gave to Merry an ancient horn, small but cunningly wrought all of fair silver   (source)
  • A tall man dressed in a white turban and a green-striped chapan stood with a little boy in front of a set of wrought-iron gates.   (source)
  • I drove the Torino up the hills of Los Altos, idling past estates with picture windows and silver lions guarding the wrought-iron gates, homes with cherub fountains lining the manicured walkways and no Ford Torinos in the drive ways.   (source)
  • The little turtle bouncing around in the cab, we drag the wagon around the circular red brick driveway outside the wrought-iron gates and return the salutes of the world's leaders as they stand and applaud.   (source)
  • But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man's hand would have any effect on him.   (source)
  • And, before the spell could be wrought further upon me, I had nerved myself to my wild work.   (source)
    wrought = worked
  • I know all up to a certain point, and I see already, though your diary only took me to 7 September, how poor Lucy was beset, and how her terrible doom was being wrought out.   (source)
  • a finely wrought gold chain   (source)
  • But whether from pride or resignation, or a feeling that her penance might best be wrought out by this unutterable pain, she resisted the impulse, and sat erect, pale as death, looking sadly into little Pearl's wild eyes.   (source)
  • None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty, even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch's robe.   (source)
    wrought = made
  • When the young woman—the mother of this child—stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress.   (source)
    wrought = worked (crafted)
  • Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power, and were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth, even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order.   (source)
    wrought = crafted (worked)
  • Great business must be wrought ere noon.   (source)
    wrought = worked
  • ...with whom she had wrought... (2:19)   (source)
  • with silver wrought full clean and well   (source)
  • a well-wrought brazen urn   (source)
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  • The revolt wrought havoc through the region.
    wrought = caused
  • I'd never seen anyone yell at my father like that, and I was astonished by, then afraid of, the change it wrought in his features.   (source)
  • For some reason, my first year of school had wrought a great change in our relationship: Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval.   (source)
    wrought = brought (caused)
  • "When I think that it is only eighteen months since the Seed was first sown among you," he said, "I marvel at what the Lord hath wrought."   (source)
    wrought = done (made happen)
  • Hatter did recognize some of the buildings, as dilapidated as they were, but he couldn't afford to feel sorrow for the changes wrought in the capital city since Redd's coup.   (source)
    wrought = made
  • That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all.   (source)
    wrought = caused
  • His father wrought us evil, he destroyed us—and is gone down into the eternal fires!   (source)
    wrought = brought (caused)
  • ...for the crime he had wrought.   (source)
    wrought = done (caused to happen)
  • And it was in this hour, so full of doubt and awe, that the one miracle was wrought,   (source)
    wrought = caused
  • The cootie's host showed not the faintest interest in the furor he had wrought.   (source)
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  • I watched the women throughout the morning and became aware of the change my father's miracle had wrought in them.   (source)
    wrought = made
  • That, which has wrought such woe to you and yours.   (source)
    wrought = caused
  • proposing methods whereby wonders might be wrought   (source)
    wrought = caused (made to happen)
  • That I may die now, either by my own hand or that of another, before the greater evil is entirely wrought.   (source)
    wrought = made to happen
  • Yet a fourteenth share of all the silver and gold, wrought and unwrought, was given up to Bard; for Dain said: "We will honour the agreement of the dead, and he has now the Arkenstone in his keeping."†   (source)
  • Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.†   (source)
  • Together met and wrought each other woe:   (source)
    wrought = brought (caused to happen)
  • In what wise was her self-destruction wrought?   (source)
    wrought = made to happen
  • What hast thou wrought upon us?   (source)
    wrought = caused (made happen)
  •   Then gave I her, so tutored by my art,
      A sleeping potion; which so took effect
      As I intended, for it wrought on her
      The form of death.   (source)
    wrought = brought
  •   Is she not proud? Doth she not count her bles'd,
      Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
      So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?   (source)
    wrought = made
  • 2:19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee.†   (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou wroughtest" in older English, today we say "You wrought."
  • *sorrowful person "O little child, alas! what is thy guilt, That never wroughtest sin as yet, pardie?†   (source)
  • * *breach, ruin O worthy PETRO, King of CYPRE <30> also, That Alexandre won by high mast'ry, Full many a heathnen wroughtest thou full woe, Of which thine owen lieges had envy; And, for no thing but for thy chivalry, They in thy bed have slain thee by the morrow; Thus can Fortune her wheel govern and gie,* *guide And out of joy bringe men into sorrow.†   (source)
  • I left them also nails, staples, hinges, hammers, chisels, knives, scissors, and all sorts of tools and iron work; & for the use of the smith, gave them three tons of unwrought iron, for a supply; and as to arms and ammunition, I stored them even to profusion; or at least to equip a sufficient little army against all opposers whatsoever.†   (source)
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  • A well-wrought invocation to the Furies can come in handy, in case of need.†   (source)
  • I was expecting a mansion with a wrought iron gate and maybe a gargoyle or two, but this just looks like a normal house.†   (source)
  • The wrought-iron gates at the entrance of the driveway were closed, and I had to get out to press the intercom button.†   (source)
  • And they tried to repair the damage they had wrought: They helped Lori break out of her abusive marriage.†   (source)
  • As Lale walks through open iron gates he looks up at the German words wrought from the metal: ARBEIT MACHT FREI†   (source)
  • If there was a single image that Lotte would carry in her heart until her last breath, it was the look on Paul's face as he slipped the fine ring he'd wrought onto Clara's finger.†   (source)
  • I glanced around and saw that there was now a wrought-iron gate embedded in the bedroom wall, in the exact spot where the WarGames poster had been a second before.†   (source)
  • The additional electronic security in this chamber always wrought havoc with the guards' communications.†   (source)
  • The news of his parents' attackers' escape had wrought a strange and even slightly alarming change in him.†   (source)
  • The marquee was situated in a walled garden, the wrought-iron gateway into it intertwined with garlands of pale-pink flowers.†   (source)
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  • The fence was gracefully landscaped and painted flat black to resemble wrought iron, but no cosmetic effort could disguise the thickness of the metal, or its twelve-foot height.†   (source)
  • In this forgiving radiance, the angles wrought by the chemotherapy only looked like youth, the largeness and depth of her eyes only looked like beauty.†   (source)
  • Dorian couldn't blame her for that, though, not after he'd seen the horror that was Endovier, and the destruction it had wrought upon Celaena Sardothien's body.†   (source)
  • Yet she became infatuated with the magic Dan wrought upon the amateurs at The Gravesend Players, so much so that she accepted a part in Maugham's The Constant Wife; she was the regal mother of the deceived wife, and she proved to have the perfect, frivolous touch for drawing-room comedy—she was a model of the kind of sophistication we could all do well without.†   (source)
  • It wasn't a real window, not like the big rectangles with glass and wrought-iron grilles in Vimla's house; it was just a crude gap in the mud wall.†   (source)
  • Then we saw a high gray wall and a series of wrought-iron letters that spelled out LAKE WINDSOR DOWNS.†   (source)
  • Wrought iron and cool.†   (source)
  • The ground was covered with the most beautiful carpets he had ever walked upon, and from the top of the structure hung lamps of hand-wrought gold, each with a lighted candle.†   (source)
  • She was by the telephone which stood on a semicircular wrought-irontable by the library door, and her hand rested upon the receiver.†   (source)
  • They pulled through the Kahns' open wrought-iron gates.†   (source)
  • The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future.†   (source)
  • All three lions were wrought in gold, with ruby eyes.†   (source)
  • The sidewalks are crowded with students and tourists, and they're lined with identical benches and ornate lampposts, bushy trees ringed in metal grates, Gothic cathedrals and tiny creperies, postcard racks, and curlicue wrought iron balconies.†   (source)
  • A wrought-iron gate stood in front of the buildings, and over the gate was a sign proclaiming in large black letters: ARBEIT MACHT FREI.†   (source)
  • Around the periphery of the conservatory area stood marble-topped tables on intricately beautiful wrought-iron legs.†   (source)
  • "Will it do?" said Hobie, stepping back anxiously, not appearing to understand the marvel he had wrought.†   (source)
  • He makes his living forging wrought iron items like garden gates and fences, railings, stairs, and fireplace tools.†   (source)
  • Longtime visitors to the Khumbu are saddened by the boom in tourism and the change it has wrought on what early Western climbers regarded as an earthly paradise, a real-life Shangri-La.†   (source)
  • You have wrought a deed no one else could.†   (source)
  • I envisioned her as the wise sage, sitting in a rocking chair, impassively pouring the moving details of her life into my waiting tape recorder over six weeks, maybe two months, me prodding her along, her cooperating, cringing, inching along, mother and son, hand in hand, fighting forward, emotionally wrought, until-behold!†   (source)
  • The wrought-iron fence held a plaque declaring that this was a San Francisco landmark, erected as an orphanage after the Great Earthquake.†   (source)
  • Through a wrought iron gate and under the watchful eyes of the surly dogs and uniformed men, Hana and her old roommates were marched off.†   (source)
  • These guys might be peace-loving villagers on the surface, but the tribal blood ties were wrought in iron.†   (source)
  • The train carried weapons made by the Essen Works of Fritz Krupp, the German arms baron, including the largest artillery piece until then constructed, capable of firing a one-ton shell with enough force to penetrate three feet of wrought-iron plate.†   (source)
  • This identification is furthered first by Laura's standing beside her mother to help with the good-byes and then by the contents of her charity basket: leftover food from the party and, but for the destruction they would have wrought on her lace frock, arum lilies.†   (source)
  • Merely kissing the wrought iron on her back had shook the house, had made it necessary for him to beat it to pieces.†   (source)
  • Betsie had wrought changes everywhere.†   (source)
  • She couldn't risk the chaos that her first marriage had wrought.†   (source)
  • No way to skate around the fence; White Columns has eight. foot iron, robo-wrought, all the way around.†   (source)
  • I made it across the back yard to my mother's house and entered through a wrought iron door.†   (source)
  • Pari swallowed back laughter—that would have wrought irreparable damage.†   (source)
  • Some of them were houses she'd always admired and secretly envied, but now when she glanced toward the twists of wrought-iron gates she thought she saw the twisted faces of workers who'd toiled and starved just so the industrialists could have a fine gate.†   (source)
  • She ran on and on, limping and sobbing, until she had reached the big wrought iron gate.†   (source)
  • He marched off through the wrought iron gates.†   (source)
  • A wrought iron fence surrounded the building and was painted a matte black.†   (source)
  • As we continued to talk, I must say I thought I began to notice further, more subtle changes which the years had wrought on her.†   (source)
  • A ton of wrought iron fell.†   (source)
  • Behind the houses, reaching to the sky, rose a promontory of uncultivated highland with a wrought-iron cornice at the edge of the precipice.†   (source)
  • It was a metal flower, one of the roses that adorned the wrought iron posts and canopy of his bed frame.†   (source)
  • For more than three centuries now the old routes common in this hemisphere have been undercut and almost washed out by the natural erosion and change of the shape of the mountain wrought by scientific truth.†   (source)
  • Couples brought their dogs with them and hooked their leashes to the wrought-iron tables where the dogs would contentedly curl up at their feet or sometimes even sit up at the table beside their masters, holding their heads high in an imperious manner as if miffed by the waiters' inattentiveness.†   (source)
  • Then Kabuo's mooring lines were made fast to deck cleats in the efficiently wrought half hitches Carl Heine could lay out with no thought or hesitation.†   (source)
  • Sophie struck another, and this time she noticed a stump of candle in a wrought-iron candlestick on top of the stove.†   (source)
  • I tugged my black veil down to my chin and strode in through the wrought-iron gates.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise went to her room, shut the door, unbuttoned her blouse, unzipped the fly of her slacks, and fell across her mother's lacy wrought-iron bed.†   (source)
  • Mismatched end tables supported matching wrought-iron lamps.†   (source)
  • Tonight he found himself standing in front of Peter's room, looking at the mess wrought by the police during their search.†   (source)
  • I was pained that I was not able to thank them and that they were not able to see what their sacrifices had wrought.†   (source)
  • When we got off the bus, a scrap of paper tumbled up the sidewalk and stuck on the wrought-iron gate of the hospital entrance.†   (source)
  • Maybe, after this nightmare we've wrought, we can find a way forward together.†   (source)
  • Looking at Ebola under an electron microscope is like looking at a gorgeously wrought ice castle.†   (source)
  • At the side of this church was a graveyard, the old stones tilting behind a wrought-iron fence.†   (source)
  • She looks up and turns in her seat) BENEATHA: (Hissingly) Yes—just look at what the New World hath wrought!†   (source)
  • Together they concocted a speech: two brief pages of stale compliments and the polite commonplaces on teachers, a speech wrought by necessity and without much invention by mother and daughter late into the night on one of the pads of paper Laura had once used for her own inventions.†   (source)
  • We passed what I thought must have been a black wrought iron fence, but it was almost impossible to see, trapped as it was beneath what looked to be raggedy, patchwork blanket.†   (source)
  • And while there were new window treatments and skylights, the moose head was still over the fireplace (although it had been cleaned by a professional-hard to believe someone actually did such things for a living), and the same splintery Adirondack chairs remained on the back deck, where they'd be joined by a new wrought-iron bench and a row of decorative flowerpots.†   (source)
  • He put from him the knowledge of how her charm wrought upon him—bound him the faster every time he spoke to her.†   (source)
  • Smith was entranced by the sweeping changes wrought by this new force, but it wasn't just the numbers that interested him.†   (source)
  • In addition to a granite-block exterior, the interior ceilings were of corrugated iron, resting upon wrought iron I beams, and every partition wall in the structure was of brick.†   (source)
  • Now he was standing on the stairs, so wrought up he could hardly see.†   (source)
  • Wrought iron bars and a big padlock.†   (source)
  • Usha's mother is delighted and a bit horrified at what this education has wrought in her daughter.†   (source)
  • A gate awaited them at the entrance to the formal grounds that were enclosed by a six-foot-high wrought iron fence.†   (source)
  • McCown, who had personally donated eight thousand dollars toward the projects, was accompanying Mortenson, to see what changes his money had wrought.†   (source)
  • I even rinsed the wrought-iron furniture in the greenhouse, though it was already clean and it was also probably too warm to sit out there.†   (source)
  • There is one persuasive explanation for those self-annihilated soldiers, and it speaks to the corruption of Bushido that was wrought by Japan's malignant military regime.†   (source)
  • The wrought-iron gate to the school swung open silently.†   (source)
  • There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, And metal wrought like fishes' mail, Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And shining spears were laid in hoard.†   (source)
  • Only he who created it can destroy what he has wrought.†   (source)
  • I saw his hands now on the wrought-iron balcony.†   (source)
  • Not a girl passed from puberty to adulthood that he did not subject to the woods, the riverbank, or the wrought-iron bed.†   (source)
  • Two with fleshy physiques advanced truculently until they spied the look of mean dislike and hostility on Dobbs and Dunbar and noticed that Dobbs was still swinging like a two-handed club the wrought-iron ash stand he had used to smash things in the sitting room.†   (source)
  • We stopped in front of a weather-beaten black wrought-iron gate.†   (source)
  • Harriet is still walking beside Bernadine and Bill, except this time it's through the wrought-iron gateway entrance to Brown's main green.†   (source)
  • We all knew the story of how the Virgin had presented herself to the little Indian boy in Mexico and about the miracles she had wrought.†   (source)
  • Unable to stand the sight of the misfortunes he had wrought by not knowing, he put out his eyes and wandered blind away from Thebes.†   (source)
  • Dad is halfway up a stepladder in the garden, poking at the gutter on the side of the house, and Mum is sitting at the wrought-iron garden table, leafing through a Past Times catalogue.†   (source)
  • THE WROUGHT-IRON GATES of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour were wide open.†   (source)
  • Kara looked at him across the wrought-iron table.†   (source)
  • With a few exceptions, the buildings were two-story redbrick with wrought-iron-laced terraces overhanging the sidewalks that ran in a perfect square around the courthouse and its lawn.†   (source)
  • Most of the haciendas couldn't be seen from the street, but as Cesar and Padre Esteban were led through the wrought iron gates, the patron's enormous home came into view.†   (source)
  • And it has been my pleasant fate to return each spring and observe the changes that the years have wrought.†   (source)
  • Yet for all the miseries it wrought, the storm was greatly to Washington's advantage.†   (source)
  • The entrance to Villa Twenty was a pink wrought-iron gate bolted into the wall.†   (source)
  • We peered inside through the wrought iron.†   (source)
  • The text was illustrated with a photograph showing a demolished house, a reminder of the devastation wrought by the last big hurricane to hit the island.†   (source)
  • Wickford had prudently wrought out about six or seven yards sideways before the shaft sank downward once again.†   (source)
  • She had been almost jealous of the pain it wrought so palpably in Robert.†   (source)
  • He sits with me on a wrought-iron bench.†   (source)
  • The porch furniture was white wicker with green cushions, and ferns cascaded from wrought-iron stands.†   (source)
  • At the pool, firesnakes shot away from me in all directions, bristling, hissing, mysteriously wrought up.†   (source)
  • They did not know at what cost the overt Rosalind had been wrought.†   (source)
  • A pair of wrought-iron gates swung open, and she pulled through.†   (source)
  • Her breathless words sounded like a chant, an incantation wrought with ancient and terrible power.†   (source)
  • Not the awninged and carpeted entrances to the buildings, but the little signs that read "Service Entrance" and the wrought-iron gates and the stairs leading down to basements.†   (source)
  • He observed, indifferently, the devastation wrought by his own indifference.†   (source)
  • Let your neighbors see what Mandiki has wrought.†   (source)
  • In her tidy way, Lee folded her hands on the wrought-iron table.†   (source)
  • Carefully wrought American English is part of our national linguistic life, too.†   (source)
  • Please, hon, don't let yourself get all wrought up.†   (source)
  • In the garden, we can meet on the wrought iron bench behind the carriage house.†   (source)
  • I CHOOSE FOR MY SUBJECT, faith wrought into life apart from creed or dogma.†   (source)
  • The Dwarf-wrought mail was sound and did not break.†   (source)
  • I sat on a bench to wait, but Mary Burns suggested we leave the wheelbarrows inside the wrought-iron gates of the entrance and take a brief hike on an old bridle path, whose almost completely hidden trailhead was a block or so back down the hill.†   (source)
  • He went back into the open air, to a cafe in a garden behind a wrought-iron fence.†   (source)
  • I can see why you would favor it over wrought iron.†   (source)
  • She nods toward her boyfriend and Luke, who've drifted over to one of the wrought-iron tables and are mixing up some kind of concoction in "Well," I say with a grin, "you know I'm always good for a bit of yaking.†   (source)
  • Now they have all fled, and Lincoln steps past the sentry boxes, grasps the wrought iron railing, and marches up the steps into the Confederate White House.†   (source)
  • No desires that were wrought of his own will.†   (source)
  • I saw Misty standing barefooted in their carport, lightning in the distance, dark clouds growing and swirling as she leaned against one of the wrought-iron posts.†   (source)
  • When Mort the Wart took office in 2068, he gave us a sermon about how things were going to be different "on" Luna in his administration—noise about "a mundane paradise wrought with our own strong hands" and "putting our shoulders to the wheel together, in a spirit of brotherhood" and "let past mistakes be forgotten as we turn our faces toward the bright, new dawn."†   (source)
  • 'Wrought iron,' I said.†   (source)
  • We parked on the other side of the wrought-iron fence that surrounded the swimming pool and separated it from the parking lot.†   (source)
  • The stairs had a black wrought iron railing on one side that Mona and Callie at first wouldn't use, the wall seeming more familiar; but this being their wall now, and not everybody-in-the-entry's, when Helen showed them how even hands that looked clean left prints, they stopped, and took to running up their five steps without touching anything.†   (source)
  • Birds chirped and butterflies fluttered above wrought-iron tables.†   (source)
  • The red-brick buildings had white trim and wrought-iron banisters and reminded me of ivy-colored colleges back East.†   (source)
  • All the good and all the evil they had wrought were swept suddenly into the past, and could touch the minds of men no more.†   (source)
  • In the lapel of which she spied, wrought exquisitely in some pale, glimmering alloy, not another cerise badge, but a pin in the shape of the Trystero post horn.†   (source)
  • No real revelation in all this: in modern times most of the mischief ascribed to the military has been wrought with the advice and consent of civil authority.†   (source)
  • "I find myself garbed effectively," I observed, to see what that wrought.†   (source)
  • A wrought-iron sign hung on the porch with the words LE MIRAGE in pale blue Gothic script.†   (source)
  • She said, there's no use our getting all wrought up until we know.†   (source)
  • But the change that now came into my life, into all our lives, blasting its way into our village, seemed wrought in the twinkling of an eye.†   (source)
  • He will see the house where Mr. Marblehall turns in at the wrought-iron gate.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the floor, a wrought-iron spiral staircase led to the upper levels.†   (source)
  • The man's voice was wrought with conviction and sadness.†   (source)
  • We have a duty to the objects placed in our care, which were, so often, wrought by our fingers.†   (source)
  • The spikes atop its wrought iron fence were gilded.†   (source)
  • Sit and listen all, for I will sing A story, wrought and forgotten in a time Old and gone.†   (source)
  • He tore up the wrought-iron staircase to his old bedroom.†   (source)
  • They were rolling toward a heavy wrought iron gate, trellised with dark vines.†   (source)
  • On their shirts were insignias intricately wrought with silver thread.†   (source)
  • A wrought-iron gate with three embossed skulls blocked the bottom of the stairs.†   (source)
  • Another gin was poured ready, waiting for me on the low white glass-topped wrought-iron table.†   (source)
  • A wrought-iron staircase wound up to a small balcony with two chairs and a reading table.†   (source)
  • Wrought all of black iron, the wheel stood taller than a man.†   (source)
  • He had wrought it from the carcass of the beast he had killed at Drossen Tor.†   (source)
  • A silver insignia Eragon recognized as the Ra'zac's symbol was wrought into it.†   (source)
  • The armor was intricately wrought with engraving and gold filigree.†   (source)
  • Quite impressive, to unbind what I have wrought with nothing more than blood.†   (source)
  • "Come," he said, and led me to a narrow stairway made of wrought iron.†   (source)
  • You have wrought a deed no one else could.†   (source)
  • We made our way down three spiral staircases made of black wrought iron to reach the Grey Twelve.†   (source)
  • A helm of extraordinary craftsmanship, wrought with amber and gold, rested on his head.†   (source)
  • They stopped before a door with a wrought-iron knocker and marble doorstep.†   (source)
  • LOOKING DOWN I SAW the draccus pinned beneath the great wrought-iron wheel.†   (source)
  • On their shirts were insignias intricately wrought with silver thread.†   (source)
  • A wrought iron blue gate rose to their left.†   (source)
  • Straight ahead, beyond a wrought-iron fence, was the cemetery.†   (source)
  • His mask was wrought in the shape of a basilisk's head.†   (source)
  • An elf cried, "Well wrought, Brightscales!"†   (source)
  • Your dream is out…… You have wrought wonders!†   (source)
  • I complained to Edward one night after we'd put Renesmee in her wrought-iron crib.†   (source)
  • No trace of the damage Durza had wrought remained.†   (source)
  • Ornate wrought iron staircases spiraled up to catwalks decorated with hanging plants.†   (source)
  • After opening it, he stepped out onto the back deck and sat in one of the wrought-iron chairs.†   (source)
  • "The Kingmaker wrought grave harm," Ser Arys said, "and gravely did he pay for it, but …."†   (source)
  • The wrought-iron fencing added a spooky touch to the ethereal setting.†   (source)
  • Along the shore was a historical district with tall mansions, palm trees, and wrought-iron fences.†   (source)
  • It had the approximate shape of a human but was wrought entirely of flame.†   (source)
  • Telchar first wrought it in the deeps of time.†   (source)
  • Two wrought-iron gates slowly slid open, and the truck rolled forward again.†   (source)
  • No, no, but the sudden disappearance of a major supply wrought havoc in the entire oil market.†   (source)
  • Wrought iron, Mama promises, with a gate and a lock.†   (source)
  • My lord father gave your predecessor a crown of rare beauty, wrought in crystal and spun gold.†   (source)
  • Feanor himself, maybe, wrought them, in days so long ago that the time cannot be measured in years.†   (source)
  • They was mighty wrought up about the South losin' the War," she would begin.†   (source)
  • Irri fetched her crown, wrought in the shape of the three-headed dragon of her House.†   (source)
  • And flinging the can back toward the wrought iron fence that guarded the basement steps.†   (source)
  • Wrought-iron tables and chairs were set up on the balcony that overlooked the courtyard below.†   (source)
  • I found a parking space on East Bay and walked to the wrought iron gate of the St. Croix mansion.†   (source)
  • She studied him up close, noting the changes the years had wrought.†   (source)
  • Some wrought their magic with the bleached bones of toads, plucked from moonlit streams.†   (source)
  • She wore a flowing red kirtle trimmed and decorated with intricate designs wrought in black thread.†   (source)
  • Be it a small house or a mansion of Corinthian columns and wrought-iron lace.†   (source)
  • ALESSANDRO LEANED against a wrought-iron fence tangled in the soft spirals of young vines.†   (source)
  • His eloquence and vehemence wrought the little man up to a degree of heat and effervescence….†   (source)
  • Only the small viewing window, barred by wrought iron, communicated to the stable's central aisle.†   (source)
  • Afterward, she retrieved a wrought-iron poker from the forge and tossed it toward Eragon.†   (source)
  • This I know, for I was in contact with Kialandi's mind even when he wrought his enchantment.†   (source)
  • His hair was gold and looked cut from pieces of metal that curled like wrought ironwork.†   (source)
  • The sight of that bright scalp wrought no tenderness from Thomas Stone, only revulsion.†   (source)
  • The front door was a mysterious black silhouette recessed under an archway wrought with symbols.†   (source)
  • Satisfied with what he had wrought, he handed the lily to Arya.†   (source)
  • It will take a lifetime to even begin to undo the damage Galbatorix has wrought.†   (source)
  • The brooch that fastened Ser Brynden Tully's cloak was a black fish, wrought in jet and gold.†   (source)
  • The Warrior gave strength to their arms, whilst the Smith wrought for each a suit of iron plates.†   (source)
  • The stall doors are made of wrought iron and carved redwood and operate nearly soundlessly.†   (source)
  • His rondels were wrought in the shape of human heads, with open mouths that shrieked in agony.†   (source)
  • The furniture of the sword had been wrought of blued steel.†   (source)
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