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  • A kindred homage was next paid to the virtuous artificers of the new-wrought blessing, without whose shaping hands it would have perished before the sight, or taken some dreadful form of mischief and of horror.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • "Suppose you read that," said the visitor, contemptuously tossing the typed script of his new-wrought editorial on the desk.

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • Homer speaks of a _knemis neoteuktou kassiteroio_, a 'greave of new-wrought tin.'

    Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911

  • He said, and hurled his sharp spear with weighty hand, and smote him on the leg beneath the knee, nor missed his mark, and the greave of new-wrought tin rang terribly on him; but the bronze bounded back from him it smote, nor pierced him, for the god's gift drave it back.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • Sun-beam, for which wares he paid in silver arm-rings, new-wrought and of strange fashion.

    The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

  • She stood there saying nothing a while, and it seemed to him that she was waiting for him to praise this new-wrought adornment.

    The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865

  • And now again retiring to his couch, this new-wrought mischief, which greatly gratified his raging mind, soon sunk him down into a sound and heavy sleep.

    The Governess; or, Little Female Academy Sarah Fielding 1739

  • "Hither come my kinsmen/with many a new-wrought shield

    The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914

  • Bright as with oil the new-wrought texture shone. [

    The Odyssey of Homer 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1765

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