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Inwrought   Listen
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Inwrought  past part., adj.  Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. "His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim."






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"Inwrought" Quotes from Famous Books



... for one, however skilled,—unless a god should come and by his will set it with ease upon some other spot; but among men no living being, even in his prime, could lightly shift it; for a great token is inwrought into its curious frame. I built it; no one else. There grew a thick-leaved olive shrub inside the yard, full-grown and vigorous, in girth much like a pillar. Round this I formed my chamber, and I worked till it was done, building it out of close-set ...
— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various

... written: 'Repute not those slain in God's cause to be dead; nay, alive with God, they are provided for'? They are people of the 'right hand,' of whom it is written: 'They shall be brought nigh God in the gardens of delight, upon inwrought couches reclining face to face. Youths ever young shall go unto them round about with goblets and ewers, and a cup of flowing wine; and fruits of the sort which they shall choose, and the flesh of birds of the kind which they shall desire, and damsels with eyes like pearls laid up, we will ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace



Words linked to "Inwrought" :   adorned, decorated



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