From the knee downward the limb was encased in a tightly fitting legging, terminating in a neat moccasin--both handsomely wrought with beads.
She wore a chintz gown dyed with little red and yellow flowers that was looped up over the hips, and at her waist hung a bunch of heavy, wrought keys.
These thinges had she priuely wrought for her husbande, knowing the measure of his harnesse, whiche when her husband sawe, he marueiled, and said to Panthea.
The records of the desolation wroughtby some of them is melancholy.
Compare the similar revivals of life wroughtby Elisha (2 Kings iv.
Was not Baal, she said, the real sender of the rain, on whose priests this fanatic from rude Gilead had wrought his dreadful sacrifice?
Their fawning readiness to carry out her vile commands is the deadliest incidental proof of the corruption which she and her crew of alien idolaters had wrought in Israel.
Revised Version for the unintelligible rendering of the Authorised Version--he asks: "Why hath the beloved wrought abomination in My house?
No miracle waswrought to supply the Prophet with water, but once more the providence of God intervened to save his life for the mighty work which still awaited him.
But all the gentler emotions will be ever new, ever wrought up into more and more lovely combinations, and genius will probably take their direction.
You will wonder what has wrought me up into this fury.
Great subjects are used up, and civilization tends evermore to repress individual predominance, highly wrought agony, or ecstatic joy.
It seems an enchanted land, where the earth is of more delicate, refined materials than this dingy planet of ours is wrought out of.
Leaving philosophy out of account, what a change would be wrought in the historical and social sciences--in the conceptions of politics and law and political economy!
We all know how that ended: Serbia was abandoned by Russia at the Berlin Congress, and had no choice but to throw herself into the arms of Austria, which wrought fearful demoralization in the land.
Soon after the conquest it was wrought for tin, which had been found in the neighborhood by the Indians; and in the year 1752, Laborde, fully developed its mineral wealth in silver.
Copper is found in abundance throughout the country, but principally at Las Tijeras, Jemas, Abiquia, and Gudalupita de Mora, but until a recent period only one copper mine was wrought south of the placeres.
Nevertheless we are informed by the best authorities, as well as by the statistics of the mint, that the mines of this State have been negligently wrought for some years past by the unsettled inhabitants of the frontier.
Yet they are probably the only gold mines at present wroughtin the territory.
They were clad in mantles excellently woven and wroughtof the fibres of a bastard aloe, indigenous in these regions, which is called lechuguilla, with bands and scarfs of variegated stuffs.
Such is the aspect of a city which is the focus of a mineral region surrounded by more than one hundred mines, which are wrought by seventy-five thousand laborers.
There were also in many parts fainter lines, shewing that the peculiar and graceful arabesques which are wrought by nature on the shell of this amphibious animal, had not been overlooked by the artist.
Beautiful samples of jewelry were wrought by them, and gold and silver vases, constructed in Mexico, were sent to Spain by the conquerors, as testimonials of the mineral wealth of the country.
Forests were burnt to clear the ground, and the larger timber which was required for the mines when they were wrought again after the revolution, was brought from a distance of twenty-two leagues.
The sweep of the metre, the martial glow of the sentiment, and the skill with which the names are wrought into the verse, are altogether beyond praise.
Epicene or the Silent Woman was specially liked by the next generation because of its regularity, and of the skill with which the various humours are all wrought into the main plot.
There is in the work of the pair, and especially in Fletcher's work when he wrought alone, a certain loose fluency, an ungirt and relaxed air, which contrasts very strongly with the strenuous ways of the elder playwrights.
The greatest miracle," said he, speaking of Jesus Christ, "would have been if he had wrought not any.
In the face of this havoc wrought before their eyes, the Faithful found themselves in a state of most irritating powerlessness.
The miracles wrought by earlier Prophets had been transient, so to say, and for that very reason, rapidly forgotten, while that of the Verses may be called "The Permanent Miracle.
The Israelites bowed down to the Golden Calf immediately after the miracle wroughtby Moses to save them from the waves of the Red Sea and Pharaoh's hosts.
It vexed him that that which he had wrought with such enthusiasm should disappear with such difficulty.
Her nerves, wrought to the utmost pitch by her inward conflict, suddenly gave way.
And he perceived that there was but one door to this chamber and that the door was bound with iron and studded with great bosses of wrought iron, and when he tried that door he found that it was locked.
As this woman passed before Sir Tristram, he beheld that she wore upon her thumb a very fair and shining ring, that bare a green stone set inwrought gold.
For both of them were clad altogether in green, and both of them wore about their necks very wonderful collars of wrought gold inset with opal stones and emeralds.
It was as if his adverse destiny--that destiny of splendid purpose and frustrated effort--had assumed for an instant the human form through which it had wrought its work of destruction.
As she drew nearer to the man's nature, she was able to surmise how terrible must have been the ruin that Angelica had wroughtin his soul.
And, O lord and master, as I here ask a marvel not yet wrought since we were torn from the old land, have I not prepared the sacrifice in which thy soul delighteth--the kid without the horns?
Her death, which befell me in my sixteenth year, was the first sorrow I had known: it left our home bereaved of its attractions, cast a shade of melancholy on my youth, and wrought in my father a tragic and durable change.
And there did my lady sit, on a quaintly wrought bench, with the little lord.
With all the strength of her will she dispelled the mists of dawning unconsciousness that the pain had wrought and crept swiftly to the little desk placed against the wall.
The soft light wrought strange miracles in the forest: bathing the tree tops in silver, laying wonderful cobweb tapestries between the trunks, upsetting the whole perspective as to distance and contour.
And yet Slavery wrought weakness, while Liberty made the bleak North to blossom like the rose.
Mothers and daughters, sisters, sweethearts and wives wrought innumerable garments and hospital supplies, while from full hearts giving inspiration or courageously bearing the miseries of bereavement.
But the noble army of physicians and nurses wrought wonders.
No movement that wrought so great a national convulsion ever had a more feeble origin.
The house itself was visible through gates of wrought iron, swinging wide between pillars of stone, where an avenue stretched away under trees to a granite terrace, glittering in the sun.
I hated the country where the men came from; I hated race and country and the blows they dealt, and the evil they wrought on France--my France!
He wished it had all come about without his knowledge--that Fletcher's punishment and Will's ruin had been wrought less directly by his own intervention.
The crisis of mortal peril in that house enveloped its inmates, and so wrought in him as to enshroud the stripped outcrying husband, of whom he had no clear recollection, save of the man's agony.
It seemed just a possibility that Tony's natural compassionateness had wrought on her to immolate herself and nurse to his end the man who had wrecked her life.
See next the wretches, who the needle left, The shuttle and the spindle, and became Diviners: baneful witcheries they wrought With images and herbs.
Here Alexander dwells, And Dionysius fell, who many a year Of woe wrought for fair Sicily.
Such sights ere long, Not grievous, shall impart to thee delight, As thy perception is by nature wrought Up to their pitch.
Like doubt arose Betwixt the eye and smell, from the curl'd fume Of incense breathing up the well-wrought toil.
Just within this gateway is perceived an extensive naumachia, or theatre for the exhibition of sea-fights, constructed of fine masonry, and finished on the top with a large moulding wrought in the stone.
It retains several marks of having been the site of some more ancient and considerable town, presenting large blocks of stone with mouldings and sculpture wrought into the modern buildings.
Profounder grief than is read in the faces of bronze and copper no mourning artist has wrought nor gloomy poet written.
To show their friendliness for me as our nation's only representative in this part of the world, I last week went on shore at Cavite with British Consul, in his launch, to show the destruction wrought by our fleet.
A beautiful work of wood carving was shown on an easel, which had a frame of hard wood, the whole, easel and frame, with elaborately wrought ornamentation, cut out of one tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
