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    wrought


    1. 2Chl: 31:20: And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth


    2. wrought iron runners, closed against the light of real wax candles guttering on stone


    3. On every door a faceplate rusted on wrought iron runners, closed against the light of real wax candles guttering on stone ledges set into the walls


    4. and leans on a wheezing wrought iron gate,


    5. Access to the grounds of the villa is via a pair of wrought iron gates which look very impressive but to be honest the place is slightly run down in the way that Mediterranean properties tend to be – I don’t know if it is the heat or just a cultural difference but they don’t take the pride in their properties that the English do


    6. 5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto


    7. At the top of the stairs he has installed a wrought iron garden gate, which is six foot tall and secured against a similarly heavy metal door frame with a padlock


    8. or so at the wrought iron gates of RDTE


    9. The other groups of chairs and settees, the massive mantle and fire place with marvelously wrought andirons, fire tools, and the long snouted bellows leaning against the ornate fire screen


    10. Allcock related the latest words of praise to which she had been privy, regarding the most excellent accomplishments wrought by the 'Sisters of Mercy' upon the White's home out at the bend in the river

    11. Let us suppose, too, that the coarse materials annually wrought up in the one cost only seven hundred pounds, while the finer materials in the other cost seven thousand


    12. As to have wrought seven years under a master


    13. those materials wrought up and manufactured ; in which case, their price is augmented by the


    14. In the present commercial state of the known world, the most barbarous nations, I believe, among whom land property is established, have some foreign commerce of this kind, and find among their wealthier neighbours such a demand for all the materials of clothing, which their land produces, and which can neither be wrought up nor consumed at home, as raises their price above what it costs to send them to those wealthier neighbours


    15. The wool of England, which in old times, could neither be consumed nor wrought up at home, found a market in the then wealthier and more industrious country of Flanders, and its price afforded something to the rent of the land which produced it


    16. Some coal mines, advantageously situated, cannot be wrought on account of their barrenness


    17. Other coal mines in the same country, sufficiently fertile, cannot be wrought on account of their situation


    18. Some works are abandoned altogether ; others can afford no rent, and can be wrought only by the proprietor


    19. If there had been no tax, this fifth would naturally have belonged to the landlord, and many mines might have been wrought which could not then be wrought, because they could not afford this tax


    20. They had been wrought, many of them, from the time of the Romans

    21. In consequence of such reductions, many mines may be wrought which could not be wrought before, because they could not afford to pay the old tax ; and the quantity of silver annually brought to market, must always be somewhat greater, and, therefore, the value of any given quantity somewhat less, than it otherwise would have been


    22. Was it that? Or was it just his own mind overcome by the shame over what he had wrought?


    23. In the course of a century or two, it is possible that new mines may be discovered, more fertile than any that have ever yet been known ; and it is just equally possible, that the most fertile mine then known may be more barren than any that was wrought before the discovery of the mines of America


    24. Thus the farmer annually replaces to the manufacturer the provisions which he had consumed, and the materials which he had wrought up the year before; and the manufacturer replaces to the farmer the finished work which he had wasted and worn out in the same time


    25. Though far too late, they finally saw the evil they had wrought, and realized their victory and glory came at the price of their souls


    26. Who, when his arms had wrought the destined fall


    27. Recollections of her savior at the Talos shrine wrought chills


    28. In France, the workmanship, as you pay for it, adds to the value, in the same manner as to that of wrought plate


    29. Sjadbek thought about taking the opportunity to stop there in the interests of his ailing friend whom many a sleepless night had wrought with chills and anxiety


    30. Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances

    31. It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc


    32. Just as the Elf was starting to wonder how deep they were descending, they reached an ancient ledge, an immense terrace or balcony, wrought from the living stone of the planet


    33. But among the ancient Romans, the lands of the rich were all cultivated by slaves, who wrought under an overseer, who was likewise a slave; so that a poor freeman had little chance of being employed either as a farmer or as a labourer


    34. Domingo, which have never been wrought since


    35. The quantities of those metals which the first adventurers are said to have found there, had probably been very much magnified, as well as the fertility of the mines which were wrought immediately after the first discovery


    36. Our woollen manufacturers, in order to justify their demand of such extraordinary restrictions and regulations, confidently asserted, that English wool was of a peculiar quality, superior to that of any other country; that the wool of other countries could not, without some mixture of it, be wrought up into any tolerable manufacture; that fine cloth could not be made without it ; that England, therefore, if the exportation of it could be totally prevented, could monopolize to herself almost the whole woollen trade of the world; and thus, having no rivals, could sell at what price she pleased, and in a short time acquire the most incredible degree of wealth by the most advantageous balance of trade


    37. Montesquieu, though not richer, have always been wrought with less expense, and therefore with more profit, than the Turkish mines in their neighbourhood


    38. The Turkish mines are wrought by slaves; and the arms of those slaves are the only machines which the Turks have ever thought of employing


    39. The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour


    40. devastation wrought by the simple act of getting caught up in the corner of a banquet's tablecloth

    41. The wrought iron gates to the drive-way of what had been his home for sixteen years now stood at the edge of a four-lane dual carriage-way


    42. five times stronger than pure wrought iron


    43. What God wrought when he created woman as the loving companion of man


    44. The representatives at that convention surely exceeded their authority, but look what they have wrought


    45. Despite the tragedy that the hurricane had wrought at sea, inland it was a different story—the savage storm broke the back of the Summer-long drought, bringing plentiful rain and sweet, cool air


    46. One day I was working on a wrought iron fence and gates I had fabricated in Morgan Hill


    47. Guards slammed the wrought iron gate behind them


    48. Once I had relived the sordid story, the realisation that my life was in ruins hit me, and I was wrought with sadness


    49. Japan faced more devastation and shock from conventional bombing than the A-bombs ever wrought


    50. “What’s going on in there?” called his pop from the living room, where Frew Cobbs was all wrought up about how the terrible wild fires in California impacted the illegal aliens getting driver’s licenses and port safety and recalls on dangerous Chinese-built Barbie dolls














































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    Synonyms for "wrought"

    molded shaped wrought iron steel

    "wrought" definitions

    shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)