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He was, however, a man who lived his whole life with disadvantages, some of them self-wrought, and he viewed the world through a dark and wicked lens.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2010

Can man outwit Omnipotence? strike out 681 A self-wrought happiness unmeant by Him Who made us, and the world we would enjoy?

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

Within the nethermost foundations of any mortal's share in any social fellowship must rest his own self-wrought integrity and self-respect.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

What helps it woman to be free from war, Nor, being armed, fierce troops to follow far, If without battle self-wrought wounds annoy them.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Had they any more scraps of paper--any more self-wrought damning evidence of that kind?

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John