inwrought

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A search for some identity that came with more inwrought despondence than he could manufacture out of his own gene pool?

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011

A noble thing in itself, a necessary vent, perhaps, for the untamed spirit's love of untrammelled motion but it was inwrought with dangers.

From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Seton, Ernest Thompson

She was born Of a high race, and laid upon the knee, With her soft eye perusing listlessly The fretted roof, or, on Mosaic floors, Grasped at the tessellated squares, inwrought With metals curiously.

From Fugitive Poetry by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

Inworn, in-wōrn′, adj. worn or worked into, inwrought.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

This funeral tent is a monumental work, inasmuch as the inscription inwrought on it gives us the name and title of her in whose honour it was made, and whose remains it covered.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess