wonderworking

Example Sentences

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Medieval Russians carried wonderworking icons into battle against the Tartars, held them aloft in religious processions, encrusted church partitions with them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet through Don Ardito's occasional wonderworking, Novelist Coccioli compellingly argues his central thesis: that the saint is not a spiritual generator, but a spiritual conductor through whom the current of godliness electrically flows.

From Time Magazine Archive

These give him his basic ideas which, alchemized in the wonderworking laboratory of his mind, produce some golden theories.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Zibeon is a wonderworking Rabbi, a subtle sophist, a crafty dialectician.

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum

Further, by means of a fire he becomes, almost without effort, a wonderworking cause, a manipulator of nature, a miracle worker.

From The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work by Hoben, Allan