All 11 Uses
wrought
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
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- The screen was an old one, of gilt Spanish leather, stamped and wrought with a rather florid Louis-Quatorze pattern.
Chpt 8 *wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)
- No; it was merely an illusion wrought on the troubled senses.†
Chpt 7
- He went towards the little pearl-coloured octagonal stand, that had always looked to him like the work of some strange Egyptian bees that wrought in silver, and taking up the volume, flung himself into an arm-chair, and began to turn over the leaves.†
Chpt 10
- He longed to see the curious table-napkins wrought for the Priest of the Sun, on which were displayed all the dainties and viands that could be wanted for a feast;†
Chpt 11
- " and the coat that Charles of Orleans once wore, on the sleeves of which were embroidered the verses of a song beginning "Madame, je suis tout joyeux," the musical accompaniment of the words being wrought in gold thread, and each note, of square shape in those days, formed with four pearls.†
Chpt 11
- And so, for a whole year, he sought to accumulate the most exquisite specimens that he could find of textile and embroidered work, getting the dainty Delhi muslins, finely wrought with gold-thread palmates, and stitched over with iridescent beetles' wings;†
Chpt 11
- books bound in tawny satins or fair blue silks, and wrought with fleurs de lys, birds, and images;†
Chpt 11
- He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.†
Chpt 11
- Over and over again Dorian used to read this fantastic chapter, and the two chapters immediately following, in which, as in some curious tapestries or cunningly-wrought enamels, were pictured the awful and beautiful forms of those whom Vice and Blood and Weariness had made monstrous or mad: Filippo, Duke of Milan, who slew his wife, and painted her lips with a scarlet poison that her lover might suck death from the dead thing he fondled;†
Chpt 11
- It was a small Chinese box of black and gold-dust lacquer, elaborately wrought, the sides patterned with curved waves, and the silken cords hung with round crystals and tasselled in plaited metal threads.†
Chpt 15
- With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(wrought as in: wrought iron) worked -- as when iron is shaped to fit by bending or beating
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(2)
(wrought as in: the damage she has wrought) caused to happen or occurred as a consequenceThis is most typically seen in classic literature. Less commonly, the present tense, wreak, is also seen.
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(3)
(wrought as in: her mind was wrought with anxiety) excessively nervous or agitated
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)