I was so wrought-up, I felt a shiver, like a sailor when someone whistles at sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
All present noticed the wrought-up condition of the sub-lieutenant, and the latter soon exhibited evidence that he was breaking down. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
I don't get as wrought-up about minutiae, but I also probably miss some of the transient highs of people whose lifespan is limited to here and now. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW: C.J. Cherryh] Reference
In these wrought-up times, it's a persona that has considerable appeal to the grass roots of the Democratic Party, if not, as yet, to the nation at large. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Dean's Pain] Reference
If one victim appeased his nervous fervor the trial was over but if his wrought-up feelings desired more his screechings continued until a second victim was secured. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
The wrought-up, quickened pulse I always felt to some extent when cantering down to the start of a race was unduly magnified, so that I could hear my own heart beating. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
Even Larry, barefooted now, and with both hands tightly clenched, such was his wrought-up condition, stood and watched with burning eyes as the aeroplane sank lower and lower in its forward swoop. From Wordnik.com. [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference
Such was the wrought-up condition of his nerves, that when a branch which some one had held back, and then let slip, came in contact with the shins of Noodles, he gave out a screech, and began dancing around like mad. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps] Reference
A brilliant and highly wrought-up audience was present. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Frohman: Manager and Man] Reference
The laughter of a wrought-up crowd always seems to me half hysterical. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of Jennie Brice] Reference
At length the burst was over, and a long sigh relieved the wrought-up multitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
While he does not feel it, he may be enraged and wrought-up against others or himself or against fortune without perishing. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence] Reference
When I observed the wrought-up condition of his nerves, I was immediately so filled with pity for him that if it hadn't been for. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors] Reference
She saw at a glance -- indeed, had seen beforehand, in anticipation -- the wrought-up, exhausted condition Constance had reached. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
Again he paced the long sitting-room, growing more and more wrought-up as evidently he grew familiar with the singular state of affairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of the Forest] Reference
It was a curious exhibit of the ambition of a lifetime suddenly and unexpectedly realized by a highly sensitive and highly wrought-up man. From Wordnik.com. [My Memories of Eighty Years]
George Clooney movie, instead of getting wrapped up in a flag over a hockey game or get wrought-up over athletes whom they have placed on a pedestal?. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Sun] Reference
He had heard what the men said about Hampton and the girl, and it was necessary for him to do something to give vent to his intensely wrought-up feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Jess of the Rebel Trail] Reference
With these words, I grasped his hand; and, excited as I had been by my painful and wrought-up interest in his recital, I burst into tears of gratitude and joy. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
The general had practically only one speech, which was full of picturesque illustrations, striking anecdotes, and highly wrought-up periods of patriotic exaltation. From Wordnik.com. [My Memories of Eighty Years] Reference
I noticed then that Dodge seemed wrought-up and a bit unnerved, for he sank rather heavily into a chair, brushed his face with his handkerchief and breathed heavily. From Wordnik.com. [The Exploits of Elaine] Reference
Heated, wrought-up, furious, Ernest Maltravers burst into a small and squalid chamber; from the closed doors of which, through many chinks, had gleamed the light that told him Cesarini was within. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
There was something so solemn in the dying woman's tones, that the power of her wrought-up soul produced a violent reaction on the boy; he felt an intense heat pass through the marrow of his bones. From Wordnik.com. [La Grenadiere] Reference
It was, therefore, in a very wrought-up state that she arrived at the vicarage, determined to speak to Mrs Hawthorne that very same day, for until it was over she felt she should not have a moment's comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Penelope and the Others Story of Five Country Children] Reference
"If you tell me not," he says excitedly, laying one hand on the rail and looking greatly wrought-up, tragic and comical all at once, "if you tell me not," he repeats, raising his voice, "I yump in dthe vater.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Southern Cross] Reference
Yet art is, and always has been, so much to me, that I could not help, even in my strangely wrought-up mental condition, comprehending and admiring his scheme and the masterly manner in which he had worked it out. From Wordnik.com. [Told in a French Garden August, 1914] Reference
"By your heightened colour and your generally wrought-up condition. From Wordnik.com. [Patty Blossom] Reference
A curious exhibit of the ambition of a lifetime suddenly and unexpectedly realized by a highly sensitive and highly wrought-up man. From Wordnik.com. [My Memories of Eighty Years] Reference
(I was, and it was funk, but I tried to look as though I was bursting with wrought-up indignation and distress.) "Why, sir?" says I. "You ask 'why'. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Flash]
When sleep the wrought-up rancours of the age. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Flag A National Ode] Reference
And in her state, so wrought-up and weak -- ''. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
And in her state, so wrought-up and weak30. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 33] Reference
Letitia, wrought-up, nervously clutched my arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)] Reference
And in her state, so wrought-up and weak -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
And in her state, so wrought-up and weak —”. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
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