Thus through the channel of the stone or the stick, which has been in bodily contact with the living saint, his blessed influence flows to the devotee who has wielded the stick or hurled the stone.
In the right hand the image wielded a wooden instrument like a sickle, and in the left a buckler covered with the black and white plumage of sea-birds.
Each of them wore on his head a peaked helmet of bronze, and at his side a sword; on his left arm he carried a shield of a peculiar shape, and in his right hand he wielded a staff with which he smote on the shield till it rang again.
It could be wielded with one hand, but to give extra effect to a blow, if desired, the left hand could be brought into action near the pommel, where the grip is smaller.
Balls of stone are also occasionally found with grooves in them, which suggest the presence at one time of string; these may have been used as weapons for throwing with the string attached, or wielded in the hand as a flail.
Despite this blot on his escutcheon, however, it is said that he wielded power with magnificence and maintained a great court.
He told me that, straight, emphasizing his statements with a rusty spanner, which he wielded in a curious, classical way, like a trident.
The women hated her, backbit and would not make friends, because of the fatal instantaneous power she wielded to spin men's blood and pitch their souls derelict on that impassioned current.
A lion has even been struck in the face with a burning brand, and has not ventured to attack the man that wielded so dreadful a weapon.
Not only was it formidable for its vast size, and for the armed men which it carried, but for the obedience which it rendered to its keeper, and the skill with which it wielded the strange but powerful weapon with which Nature had armed it.
Worthy to be wielded by Tshaka himself," she muttered.
Ah, gentlemen, the rule of a woman has rendered you over-bold; and you have forgotten that there have been women who have wielded a sceptre of iron.
The Red Knight, thus challenged, began to fight; but Parzival, notwithstanding his inexperience, wielded his spear so successfully that he soon slew his opponent.
Looking about him for some weapon to defend himself with, Wolfdietrich suddenly saw Ortnit's ring and his sword Rosen, which he seized, and wielded the latter to such good purpose that he soon slew all the dragons.
The head of the state knew not how to meet the partisan otherwise than with his own weapons, only wielded with far less dexterity.
In the battle also he fought with the courage of a lion; two centurions fell by his hand; wounded and on his knees he still wielded his spear against the advancing foes.
A strong headman wielded the cruel quirt; and as the last stripe was administered, completing that horrid hundred, the poor victim sank fainting against the blood-stained stake.
Cynthia was not slow in responding to the summons of the Jew, who possessed an influence over her which, if not so powerful, was also less mysterious than that wielded by the myal-man, since it was the power of money.
Magued had never met so able an antagonist before, nor Pelistes encountered so skilfully wielded a blade.
Some of them carried the swords and shields they had wielded in the battle of the Guadalete, others brought the rude weapons of the mountaineers.
For Sapazani had wielded weapons of Malemba's manufacture with his own hand, had wielded them to considerable purpose, too.
I not only made assegais in those days, I wielded them.
He regularly remitted "copy" across the Atlantic for the Register, which continued a pungent thorn in the side of Castlereagh and his friends, though the hand which wielded it was three thousand miles away.
He hated all that was above him in birth and station, and his appeals usually being to the prejudices and passions of the class from which he sprang, he wielded a vast influence over the common people of England.
Like a soldier who serves a cause, he believed that when the cause was injured in his person, the weapons confided to his hands might be wielded without fear and without reproach.
In Ferrers he recognised a man to get into power--in Maltravers one by whom power, if ever attained, would be wielded with dignity, and exerted for great uses.
We hold that the only cause that could justify it is the conviction that for the good of mankind a vast power requires to be wielded which is not to be found in the ordinary machinery of government.
In fact, the junction for ordinary purposes of such vast powers as these kings of finance wielded would be fatal to liberty and freedom.
Union men in Virginia already tremble at the thought of being delivered over to a State government wielded by original Rebels pretending to be patriots.
He found a certain satisfaction in clearly wording his statement, and in perceiving how steadily his hand wielded the pen.
The stranger wielded the oars so dextrously that they soon reached their destination.
He rested one arm upon his little raft, and with the other he wielded a small paddle which sent him along easily.
Occasionally he heard the sounds of both oars and paddles, but he judged very accurately that those who wielded them were not near enough to see him.
Shall the power of Congress over the treasury of the United States, hitherto never contested, be wrested from its possession, and be henceforward wielded by the Chief Magistrate?
On the other hand, it seems to have been determined by the party, and some of those who act with it thoroughly, that the money should remain where it was in the deposit banks, so that it could be wielded at pleasure by the executive.
She wielded a debt of seventy millions of dollars, with an organization which extended to every part of the Union, and she was sole mistress of the moneyed power of the republic.
It is not hatred, or the desire of a kingdom, that has urged me to war: for a wife I wielded arms.
Peter Pattison's last labours shall now go down to posterity unscathed by the scalping-knife of alteration, in the hands of a false friend--shame on the thought that the unnatural weapon could ever be wielded by the hand of a brother!
Had my ancestor Charles never left the paltry banks of the Saale, he had not now been much better known than any vine- dresser who wielded his pruning-hook in the same territories.
This implement was wielded by Jake, with a skill born of years in the backwoods.
Hampered as I was I smashed the skulls of the two within easiest reach, barking my knuckles villanously as I wielded my weapon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wielded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
