1 As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 2 Little Flask was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 3 And all these subtle agencies, more and more they wrought on Ahab's texture.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb. 4 The day before this examination she was so wrought up, she left home and wandered miles away.
5 Then his eye passed to the long table in the center of the hall, a table black as ebony, and gleaming with wrought silver and gold.
6 The melody, which no weakness could destroy, gradually wrought its sweet influence on the senses of those who heard it.
7 Conviction gradually wrought its influence, and toward the close of Hawkeye's speech, his sentences were accompanied by the customary exclamation of commendation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 8 But stronger than all was maternal love, wrought into a paroxysm of frenzy by the near approach of a fearful danger.
9 The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns.
10 A light, fanciful bamboo table stood in the middle of the room, where a Parian vase, wrought in the shape of a white lily, with its buds, stood, ever filled with flowers.
11 On this table lay Eva's books and little trinkets, with an elegantly wrought alabaster writing-stand, which her father had supplied to her when he saw her trying to improve herself in writing.
12 He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it on his heart.
13 Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 14 She recognises, believe me, the solemn miracle which God hath wrought in the existence of that child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER 15 All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN