wonderworking
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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
He still thought of Oglugechana, who dwells within a hollow tree, and determined to surprise and if possible to overpower this wonderworking old man.
From Old Indian Days by Charles Alexander Eastman
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 Allan Hoben
Of all forms of speech these three words are the most powerful, the most wonderworking upon the being who utters them.
From The Bread-winners A Social Study by John Hay
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