wonderworking

Example Sentences

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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

From the belief in the healing and wonderworking power of excrement sprang moreover the famous filth pharmacy, that was held in no little esteem.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

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 Eastman, Charles Alexander

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 Hay, John