high-wrought
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of high-wrought
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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There is no glamour, no ecstasy, no high-wrought moment in his tranquil pages.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was leisure for few tears just then; and too high-wrought a state of the nerves to seek much indulgence in them.
From Diana by Warner, Susan
There is no affectation of high-wrought adventure or heroic enterprise about it.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
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.
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
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