high-wrought

Historical Examples

• She understood not his high-wrought scruples, his self-deluding belief.

  Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• It is fine as a poem: it is finer as a piece of high-wrought eloquence.

  Hazlitt on English Literature

  Jacob Zeitlin

• Our author is not true to nature—he is extravagant, high-wrought.

  The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863

  Various

• These principles were not flashes of a high-wrought imagination; they were practical.

  Sketches of the Covenanters

  J. C. McFeeters

• But this high-wrought brilliancy, this unceasing point, soon fatigue.

  From Chaucer to Tennyson

  Henry A. Beers