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
Towards the end your high-wrought imagination can almost smell the sticking plaister, so vivid is the picture.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
An expression of high-wrought energy, mingled with uneasiness, sat on the faces of the ministers.
From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
I had prepared myself for the occasion," said Mr. Brownlow, "and I intended to do the Southern Confederacy justice—to pronounce a high-wrought eulogy on the concern, from Jeff.
From Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot by Brownlow, William Gannaway
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
