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
It is said that "truth is stranger than fiction," and no one who has perused these pages can feel any necessity for seeking excitement in the high-wrought pages of romance.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
In her present high-wrought state all her senses were excited to their intensest keenness.
From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.
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 Conrad, Robert Taylor
No work ever came from the press whose anticipated excellence was more loudly proclaimed, and none, we are persuaded, ever more disappointed high-wrought expectation.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
