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A kindred homage was next paid to the virtuous artificers of the new-wrought blessing, without whose shaping hands it would have perished before the sight, or taken some dreadful form of mischief and of horror.
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"Suppose you read that," said the visitor, contemptuously tossing the typed script of his new-wrought editorial on the desk.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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Homer speaks of a _knemis neoteuktou kassiteroio_, a 'greave of new-wrought tin.'
Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911
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He said, and hurled his sharp spear with weighty hand, and smote him on the leg beneath the knee, nor missed his mark, and the greave of new-wrought tin rang terribly on him; but the bronze bounded back from him it smote, nor pierced him, for the god's gift drave it back.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882
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Sun-beam, for which wares he paid in silver arm-rings, new-wrought and of strange fashion.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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She stood there saying nothing a while, and it seemed to him that she was waiting for him to praise this new-wrought adornment.
The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865
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And now again retiring to his couch, this new-wrought mischief, which greatly gratified his raging mind, soon sunk him down into a sound and heavy sleep.
The Governess; or, Little Female Academy Sarah Fielding 1739
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"Hither come my kinsmen/with many a new-wrought shield
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Bright as with oil the new-wrought texture shone. [
The Odyssey of Homer 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1765
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