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wrought as in: wrought iron
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The windows have decorative wrought iron bars for security.
wrought = worked or crafted
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She wore a hand-wrought silver bracelet.
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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.
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wrought = worked (crafted)
- The poplar trees lined the redbrick driveway, which led to a pair of wrought-iron gates. (source)
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Across from it was a handsome bank with arched windows and a wrought-iron door.
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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.
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wrought = worked (shaped by bending or beating)
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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.
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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.
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- 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)
- He passed through an archway of wrought-iron curlicues, and paused, squinting at the weedy rows of gravestones. (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)
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Mother's so wrought up her cheeks are blotched with red,
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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)
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wrought with fruited vines
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The screen was an old one, of gilt Spanish leather, stamped and wrought with a rather florid Louis-Quatorze pattern.
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for whom first was that sword wrought
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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.
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He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it on his heart.
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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.
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- 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)
- When I reached the wrought-iron gates, Ali was waiting on the other side. (source)
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I squirmed my way through the throng of guests and slipped through the wrought-iron gates.
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I squinted against the blinding white when Hassan and I stepped through the wrought-iron gates.
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- 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)
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With that he put on Bilbo a small coat of mail, wrought for some young elf-prince long ago.
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For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gloaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
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- 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)
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...the necklace of Girion, Lord of Dale, made of five hundred emeralds green as grass, which he gave for the arming of his eldest son in a coat of dwarf-linked rings the like of which had never been made before, for it was wrought of pure silver to the power and strength of triple steel.
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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.
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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."
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unwrought = not crafted
- 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)
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But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man's hand would have any effect on him.
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And, before the spell could be wrought further upon me, I had nerved myself to my wild work.
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When the dreary change was wrought, she extended her hand to Pearl.
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She marvelled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him!
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- 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)
- Had seven long years, under the torture of the scarlet letter, inflicted so much of misery and wrought out no repentance? (source)
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Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.
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She recognises, believe me, the solemn miracle which God hath wrought in the existence of that child.
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- The minister's own will, and Hester's will, and the fate that grew between them, had wrought this transformation. (source)
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There were trifles too, little ornaments, beautiful tokens of a continual remembrance, that must have been wrought by delicate fingers at the impulse of a fond heart.
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All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.
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Her attire, which indeed, she had wrought for the occasion in prison, and had modelled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity.
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It had been wrought, as was easy to perceive, with wonderful skill of needlework; and the stitch (as I am assured by ladies conversant with such mysteries) gives evidence of a now forgotten art, not to be discovered even by the process of picking out the threads.
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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.
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This earthly faintness, was, in their view, only another phase of the minister's celestial strength; nor would it have seemed a miracle too high to be wrought for one so holy, had he ascended before their eyes, waxing dimmer and brighter, and fading at last into the light of heaven!
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- Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all. (source)
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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.
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There were human beings enough, and enough of highly wrought and symphonious feeling to produce that more impressive sound than the organ tones of the blast, or the thunder, or the roar of the sea; even that mighty swell of many voices, blended into one great voice by the universal impulse which makes likewise one vast heart out of the many.
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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.
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- The mother herself—as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain that all her conceptions assumed its form—had carefully wrought out the similitude, lavishing many hours of morbid ingenuity to create an analogy between the object of her affection and the emblem of her guilt and torture. (source)
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In answer to this query, a rumour gained ground—and however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people—that Heaven had wrought an absolute miracle, by transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic from a German university bodily through the air and setting him down at the door of Mr. Dimmesdale's study!
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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.
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Thy honorable mettle may be wrought,
From that it is disposed: therefore 'tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes;
For who so firm that cannot be seduced? (source)wrought = shaped
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Great business must be wrought ere noon.
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- ...with whom she had wrought... (2:19) (source)
- a well-wrought brazen urn (source)
- with silver wrought full clean and well (source)
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wrought as in: the damage she has wrought
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The town still hasn't recovered from the damage wrought by the hurricane.
wrought = caused (made to happen)
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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)
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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.
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"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."
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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.
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That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all.
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...for the crime he had wrought.
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His father wrought us evil, he destroyed us—and is gone down into the eternal fires!
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And it was in this hour, so full of doubt and awe, that the one miracle was wrought,
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- 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.
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That, which has wrought such woe to you and yours.
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proposing methods whereby wonders might be wrought
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That I may die now, either by my own hand or that of another, before the greater evil is entirely wrought.
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- In what wise was her self-destruction wrought? (source)
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Together met and wrought each other woe:
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What hast thou wrought upon us?
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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
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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
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what is thy guilt,
That never wroughtest sin as yet, pardie?† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou wroughtest" in older English, today we say "You wrought."
- and where wroughtest thou?† (source)
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* *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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He was surprised at the eagerness which animated the whole team and which was communicated to him; but still more surprising was the change wrought in Dave and Sol-leks.
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- 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)
- A balcony ran around it halfway up, with wrought-iron railings; that was for men only, for businessmen.† (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)
- The marquee was situated in a walled garden, the wrought-iron gateway into it intertwined with garlands of pale-pink flowers.† (source)
- The additional electronic security in this chamber always wrought havoc with the guards' communications.† (source)
- As the carriage trundled toward a pair of magnificent wrought iron gates, flanked with stone columns topped with winged boars, Harry saw two more towering, hooded dementors, standing guard on either side.† (source)
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- Flowers grow on her tiny wrought-iron balcony, and in summer she can estimate what time of day it is by feeling how wide the petals of the evening primroses have opened.† (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)
- Then we saw a high gray wall and a series of wrought-iron letters that spelled out LAKE WINDSOR DOWNS.† (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)
- They pulled through the Kahns' open wrought-iron gates.† (source)
- Tonight he found himself standing in front of Peter's room, looking at the mess wrought by the police during their search.† (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)
- 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)
- On his breastplate was the three-headed dragon of his House, wrought all in rubies that flashed like fire in the sunlight.† (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)
- She couldn't risk the chaos that her first marriage had wrought.† (source)
- He makes his living forging wrought iron items like garden gates and fences, railings, stairs, and fireplace tools.† (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)
- 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)
- Around the periphery of the conservatory area stood marble-topped tables on intricately beautiful wrought-iron legs.† (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)
- "Will it do?" said Hobie, stepping back anxiously, not appearing to understand the marvel he had wrought.† (source)
- You have wrought a deed no one else could.† (source)
- She ran on and on, limping and sobbing, until she had reached the big wrought iron gate.† (source)
- I made it across the back yard to my mother's house and entered through a wrought iron door.† (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)
- 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)
- Maybe it was something about the design of the gardens, or the fact that the wrought-iron fence surrounding the lawns was nearly ten feet tall and unclimbable to my well-trained thief's eye.† (source)
- It had parapets, a veranda with sparkly mosaics, and wide balconies with curved wrought-iron railings.† (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)
- 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)
- It looked like something out of Phantom of the Opera, with wrought iron candelabras standing taller than I was and a black four-poster bed draped with gray and black velvet.† (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)
- I would think of Haarlem, each substantial church set behind its wrought-iron fence and its barrier of doctrine.† (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 reached out for her and moved forward over an immense space and found her standing at the gate of Jackson Square, hands gripping the wrought-iron bars.† (source)
- Her mother's keys and pink handbag were on the small wrought iron shelf by the door, where she always left them.† (source)
- It was a metal flower, one of the roses that adorned the wrought iron posts and canopy of his bed frame.† (source)
- foot iron, robo-wrought, all the way around.† (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)
- These guys might be peace-loving villagers on the surface, but the tribal blood ties were wrought in iron.† (source)
- Theresa wiped her eyes, handed the letter to Deanna, and walked over to the wrought-iron table where Deanna had been sitting.† (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)
- 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)
- In a week, if I passed my interview with the board of directors, Philomena Guinea's large black car would drive me west and deposit me at the wrought-iron gates of my college.† (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)
- 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)
- The wrought-iron fence held a plaque declaring that this was a San Francisco landmark, erected as an orphanage after the Great Earthquake.† (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)
- All this I have wrought with a wisp of my voice, the merest bit of my essence wriggling from my weakened cage.† (source)
- When she stepped back outside, blinking, into the sunlight, Paul was sitting on a stone in front of the wrought-iron fence.† (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)
- 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)
- And just as guilts of variant cause and intricacy were etched forever in her own and Grace's hearts, so too was the hurt she had wrought in his.† (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)
- Looking at Ebola under an electron microscope is like looking at a gorgeously wrought ice castle.† (source)
- Edna delivering a breech birth in her hospital (Nicholas D. Kristof) The American backers of the hospital have been venturing out to Somaliland to see what they have wrought.† (source)
- The wrought-iron gate to the school swung open silently.† (source)
- Suddenly the forbidding wrought-iron gates loomed before them, standing out against the limestone walls.† (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)
- I didn't have to get all wrought up about what was going on with his dad; I'd never wanted anyone to get involved with me and my domestic drama.† (source)
- She looks up and turns in her seat) BENEATHA: (Hissingly) Yes—just look at what the New World hath wrought!† (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)
- Now he was standing on the stairs, so wrought up he could hardly see.† (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)
- 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)
- Some are thrown up in a hurry and look as if they could not help it—mere necessity—others are curiously wrought with doors and windows.† (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)
- 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)
- At the pool, firesnakes shot away from me in all directions, bristling, hissing, mysteriously wrought up.† (source)
- Wrought iron bars and a big padlock.† (source)
- Smith was entranced by the sweeping changes wrought by this new force, but it wasn't just the numbers that interested him.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 'Yes, wrought iron, and at the end of the last step it was curved like a question mark and when I put my hand on it, the iron was warm and I was comforted.† (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)
- It had the approximate shape of a human but was wrought entirely of flame.† (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)
- Wickford had prudently wrought out about six or seven yards sideways before the shaft sank downward once again.† (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)
- The facade is brick, the house contained behind a wrought-iron fence and a twin set of stone pillars over which hangs the Rimbauer crest.† (source)
- Kara looked at him across the wrought-iron table.† (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)
- "Wrought," said Iggy.† (source)
- McCown, who had personally donated eight thousand dollars toward the projects, was accompanying Mortenson, to see what changes his money had wrought.† (source)
- They are gracefully wrought, each one worked with the same intricate, almost obsessive detail, from hilt to crossbar to minutely etched blade.† (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)
- 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)
- And it has been my pleasant fate to return each spring and observe the changes that the years have wrought.† (source)
- He kicked his right leg up to the ledge, his right hand reaching for the wrought iron top; balanced, he swung over the railing.† (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)
- 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)
- In her tidy way, Lee folded her hands on the wrought-iron table.† (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)
- Let your neighbors see what Mandiki has wrought.† (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)
- Milagro seemed to know where to go so I followed her through the wrought-iron archway and up the steep, curved stairs reeking with filth.† (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)
- There he sat, with no neck, with the sexual feelings of a chamber pot, his right foot tapping out the rhythm of his hand as his hand sang out orders and decrees in cursive lines and flourishes that looked like vine tendrils or wrought-iron railing.† (source)
- She wanted so much to tell you about the wonderful work we're doing in our parish school, and about the classes in metal craftsmanship, and about the beautiful wrought-iron doorknobs that the little slum children are making all by themselves.† (source)
- I CHOOSE FOR MY SUBJECT, faith wrought into life apart from creed or dogma.† (source)
- Birds chirped and butterflies fluttered above wrought-iron tables.† (source)
- They did not know at what cost the overt Rosalind had been wrought.† (source)
- The demon could not bear to grasp it and tear it free, though the embedded blade, its magic quelching the fires it had been wrought to destroy, was surely winning the conflict.† (source)
- The porch furniture was white wicker with green cushions, and ferns cascaded from wrought-iron stands.† (source)
- A gate awaited them at the entrance to the formal grounds that were enclosed by a six-foot-high wrought iron fence.† (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)
- 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)
- The Dwarf-wrought mail was sound and did not break.† (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)
- 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)
- In the Brills' time, the porch swing had been an ugly white wrought-iron affair featuring sharp-edged curlicues that gouged a person's spine.† (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)
- 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)
- The red-brick buildings had white trim and wrought-iron banisters and reminded me of ivy-colored colleges back East.† (source)
- Perhaps it was because my family had no nostalgia for the past, no sense of responsibility to uphold a proud and carefully wrought tradition.† (source)
- A wrought-iron sign hung on the porch with the words LE MIRAGE in pale blue Gothic script.† (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)
- "Had I known at the time how well I wrought," said Yama, "I might have numbered its days intentionally.† (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)
- 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)
- The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth.† (source)
- He will see the house where Mr. Marblehall turns in at the wrought-iron gate.† (source)
- I complained to Edward one night after we'd put Renesmee in her wrought-iron crib.† (source)
- Another gin was poured ready, waiting for me on the low white glass-topped wrought-iron table.† (source)
- I saw his hands now on the wrought-iron balcony.† (source)
- A helm of extraordinary craftsmanship, wrought with amber and gold, rested on his head.† (source)
- After opening it, he stepped out onto the back deck and sat in one of the wrought-iron chairs.† (source)
- We stopped in front of a weather-beaten black wrought-iron gate.† (source)
- I tugged my black veil down to my chin and strode in through the wrought-iron gates.† (source)
- A wrought iron fence surrounded the building and was painted a matte black.† (source)
- All three lions were wrought in gold, with ruby eyes.† (source)
- Pari swallowed back laughter—that would have wrought irreparable damage.† (source)
- "Come," he said, and led me to a narrow stairway made of wrought iron.† (source)
- The man's voice was wrought with conviction and sadness.† (source)
- In the middle of the floor, a wrought-iron spiral staircase led to the upper levels.† (source)
- She wore a flowing red kirtle trimmed and decorated with intricate designs wrought in black thread.† (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)
- The front door was a mysterious black silhouette recessed under an archway wrought with symbols.† (source)
- Be it a small house or a mansion of Corinthian columns and wrought-iron lace.† (source)
- A silver insignia Eragon recognized as the Ra'zac's symbol was wrought into it.† (source)
- A well-wrought invocation to the Furies can come in handy, in case of need.† (source)
- We have a duty to the objects placed in our care, which were, so often, wrought by our fingers.† (source)
- A wrought-iron gate with three embossed skulls blocked the bottom of the stairs.† (source)
- Quite impressive, to unbind what I have wrought with nothing more than blood.† (source)
- On their shirts were insignias intricately wrought with silver thread.† (source)
- Wrought all of black iron, the wheel stood taller than a man.† (source)
- An elf cried, "Well wrought, Brightscales!"† (source)
- He had wrought it from the carcass of the beast he had killed at Drossen Tor.† (source)
- You have wrought a deed no one else could.† (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)
- We made our way down three spiral staircases made of black wrought iron to reach the Grey Twelve.† (source)
- The armor was intricately wrought with engraving and gold filigree.† (source)
- Sit and listen all, for I will sing A story, wrought and forgotten in a time Old and gone.† (source)
- A wrought-iron staircase wound up to a small balcony with two chairs and a reading table.† (source)
- On their shirts were insignias intricately wrought with silver thread.† (source)
- Along the shore was a historical district with tall mansions, palm trees, and wrought-iron fences.† (source)
- Straight ahead, beyond a wrought-iron fence, was the cemetery.† (source)
- Mismatched end tables supported matching wrought-iron lamps.† (source)
- Two wrought-iron gates slowly slid open, and the truck rolled forward again.† (source)
- Ornate wrought iron staircases spiraled up to catwalks decorated with hanging plants.† (source)
- A pair of wrought-iron gates swung open, and she pulled through.† (source)
- ALESSANDRO LEANED against a wrought-iron fence tangled in the soft spirals of young vines.† (source)
- Usha's mother is delighted and a bit horrified at what this education has wrought in her daughter.† (source)
- He observed, indifferently, the devastation wrought by his own indifference.† (source)
- Your dream is out...You have wrought wonders!† (source)
- The entrance to Villa Twenty was a pink wrought-iron gate bolted into the wall.† (source)
- Her breathless words sounded like a chant, an incantation wrought with ancient and terrible power.† (source)
- She studied him up close, noting the changes the years had wrought.† (source)
- No desires that were wrought of his own will.† (source)
- He marched off through the wrought iron gates.† (source)
- The sight of that bright scalp wrought no tenderness from Thomas Stone, only revulsion.† (source)
- Wrought iron, Mama promises, with a gate and a lock.† (source)
- They was mighty wrought up about the South losin' the War," she would begin.† (source)
- She had been almost jealous of the pain it wrought so palpably in Robert.† (source)
- My lord father gave your predecessor a crown of rare beauty, wrought in crystal and spun gold.† (source)
- At the side of this church was a graveyard, the old stones tilting behind a wrought-iron fence.† (source)
- It will take a lifetime to even begin to undo the damage Galbatorix has wrought.† (source)
- The wrought-iron fencing added a spooky touch to the ethereal setting.† (source)
- He sits with me on a wrought-iron bench.† (source)
- Maybe, after this nightmare we've wrought, we can find a way forward together.† (source)
- Yet for all the miseries it wrought, the storm was greatly to Washington's advantage.† (source)
- Satisfied with what he had wrought, he handed the lily to Arya.† (source)
- Only the small viewing window, barred by wrought iron, communicated to the stable's central aisle.† (source)
- Telchar first wrought it in the deeps of time.† (source)
- I can see why you would favor it over wrought iron.† (source)
- Wrought-iron tables and chairs were set up on the balcony that overlooked the courtyard below.† (source)
- A wrought iron blue gate rose to their left.† (source)
- His mask was wrought in the shape of a basilisk's head.† (source)
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