high-wrought

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There is no glamour, no ecstasy, no high-wrought moment in his tranquil pages.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Edinburgh Review, in a high-wrought eulogy on an American authoress, says that she assails slavery with arrows "poisoned by truth."

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

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)

This venerable structure is cruciform, of large dimensions, and of the early Gothic architecture, though not without much of the high-wrought fret-work additions of later ages. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.