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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
These give him his basic ideas which, alchemized in the wonderworking laboratory of his mind, produce some golden theories.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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 Charles Alexander Eastman
