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She wore a hand-wrought silver bracelet.

He sat serene on his couch, drinking from his wrought-gold cup.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

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) Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising, 2000

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) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

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) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

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) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

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) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

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) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

He passed through an archway of wrought-iron curlicues, and paused, squinting at the weedy rows of gravestones.  (source) Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 1975

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) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

I squirmed my way through the throng of guests and slipped through the wrought-iron gates.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

Across from it was a handsome bank with arched windows and a wrought-iron door.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

Mother's so wrought up her cheeks are blotched with red,  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

The revolt wrought havoc through the region.

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) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

The cootie's host showed not the faintest interest in the furor he had wrought.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

"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) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

and where wroughtest thou?†  (source) The Bible, Old Testament, 1611

The fiction pleased; their loves I long elude; The night still ravell'd what the day renew'd: Three years successful in my heart conceal'd, My ineffectual fraud the fourth reveal'd: Befriended by my own domestic spies, The woof unwrought the suitor-train surprise.†  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

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) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

and where wroughtest thou?†  (source) The Bible, Ruth, 1611

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) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

what is thy guilt, That never wroughtest sin as yet, pardie?†  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

His father wrought us evil, he destroyed us—and is gone down into the eternal fires!  (source) Mark Twain, The Prince and The Pauper, 1881

* *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) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

The news of the impending decision left him wrought with nervous energy.

And in her state, so wrought-up and weak—†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922

Again he paced the long sitting-room, growing more and more wrought-up as evidently he grew familiar with the singular state of affairs.†  (source) Zane Grey, The Man of the Forest, 1920

My dull brain was wrought With things forgotten.  (source) William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1606

I used to clasp his face between my palms, his expression wrought with worry, with unassuaged anxiety.  (source) Ling Ma, Severance, 2019