high-wrought
Example Sentences
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There is no glamour, no ecstasy, no high-wrought moment in his tranquil pages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lamartine gives us a picture of the East by candle-light—a high-wrought picture, certainly; but after all nothing but canvas.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
This venerable structure is cruciform, of large dimensions, and of the early Gothic architecture, though not without much of the high-wrought fret-work additions of later ages.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
These high-wrought feelings may be very fine, but excuse me for saying they are very silly.
From Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 by Elizabeth Bonhote
Heaven, when it gives such high-wrought souls as thine, Still gives as great occasions to exert them.
From Percy A Tragedy by Hannah More
