Wrought

Examples

• I thought of myself, lying here, when that first great change was being wrought at home. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He never looked at her; so she might study him unobserved, and note the changes which even this short time had wrought in him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Davoust and Massena, who wrought in many a battle tragedy, are here, and so also is Rachel, of equal renown in mimic tragedy on the stage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But you may easily carry the help too far, he said, and get over-wrought yourself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Many coal mines in Scotland are wrought in this manner, and can be wrought in no other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Is the man born yet, is the spade wrought yet? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• How insignificant compared with the wonder wrought by this one machine seems indeed any of the old seven wonders of the world! William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They smelted iron by blowing up a charcoal fire, and wrought it by heating and hammering. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some coal mines, advantageously situated, cannot be wrought on account of their barrenness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The solitary walk of the last two hours had wrought its effect on me--it had set the idea in my mind of hastening my departure from Limmeridge House. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Little need to show that this detested family name had long been anathematised by Saint Antoine, and was wrought into the fatal register. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A crude gift of nature, in the mountain side, it remained, however, a sodden mass until extracted, refined, and wrought into shape by the genius of man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Various feelings wrought in him the determination after all to go to the Grange to-day as if nothing new had happened. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Some works are abandoned altogether; others can afford no rent, and can be wrought only by the proprietor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But stronger than all was maternal love, wrought into a paroxysm of frenzy by the near approach of a fearful danger. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If his energy could have borne down that check, he might still have wrought on Rosamond's vision and will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• With him went enthusiasm, the high-wrought resolve, the eye that without blenching could look at death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Stockings, in many parts of Scotland, are knit much cheaper than they can anywhere be wrought upon the loom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In France, the workmanship, as you pay for it, adds to the value, in the same manner as to that of wrought plate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is along these lines that the inventors have wrought their marvellous changes from hand to power looms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Wrought iron has, when pure, practically no carbon in it, while cast iron has a considerable proportion in excess of steel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We came to her like visitors from heaven itself; her high-wrought courage; her hardly sustained firmness, fled with the appearance of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Two tubes, which were to form the bridge, were made of wrought iron, floated out into the stream, and raised into position. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There were as many women as men, and each was clothed in the wondrously wrought harness of his station and his house. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• If the mine be not wrought out, the strength and capacity of the miner become necessarily exhausted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The very resolution to which he had wrought himself by dint of logic and honorable pride was beginning to relax under her torpedo contact. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Reason came unavailing to such high-wrought feelings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It looked so bad, Jenny,' responded the old man, with gravity, 'that I will straightway tell you what an impression it wrought upon me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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