February 08, 2007 - There is power, power, wonderworking power. From Wordnik.com. [dudemanflab Diary Entry] Reference
Further, by means of a fire he becomes, almost without effort, a wonderworking cause, a manipulator of nature, a miracle worker. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference
Bill, there are indications in some places like the dead sea scrolls that some Jewsand Samaritans were expecting a wonderworking Prophet-Messiah. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Mythicism] Reference
Zibeon is a wonderworking Rabbi, a subtle sophist, a crafty dialectician. From Wordnik.com. [The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)] Reference
Of all forms of speech these three words are the most powerful, the most wonderworking upon the being who utters them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bread-winners A Social Study] Reference
The idea of a magic fiddle and a wonderworking fiddler was strongly rooted in the popular imagination of many peoples, through many ages. From Wordnik.com. [For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music] Reference
Friday afternoon, and they were still far from home, "have no care, we shall arrive before nightfall," and, exercising his wonderworking powers, he was as good as his word. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference
The leather bag now disclosed its wonderworking phials; fifteen drops of a yellowish drug were diluted with two fingers of water, and the sick woman, lifted up in bed, managed to swallow this with sharp cries of pain. From Wordnik.com. [Maria Chapdelaine] Reference
If, in some ordinary social chance, Philip had encountered the heiress, without this previous wonderworking of his imagination in regard to her, the probability is that he would have seen nothing especially to distinguish her from the other girls of her age and newness in social experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
As far back in the ages as the eye can penetrate, even where the perspective dwindles almost to a point, we can still see the swarming multitudes, possessed of all the arts of the highest civilization, pressing forward from out that other and greater empire of which even this wonderworking Nile-land is but a faint and imperfect copy. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
They confess before me Thy power, Thy goodness, loudly proclaiming to all that Thou hast stretched out Thy wonderworking hand over them and raised them up from the bed of sickness, from their death-bed, when no one expected that they would live; and then, after the communion of Thy life-giving Body and Blood, they soon revived, were healed, and felt upon them at the very same hour and day Thy life-giving Hand. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
She was their leader in wonderworking. From Wordnik.com. [License Invoked]
There is power, power, wonderworking power. From Wordnik.com. [There is power, power, wonderworking power] Reference
Pour into her even now one of those wonderworking elixirs which you know how to compound; and in return take all that we possess, so she be but again here, walking about among us and talking to us. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck] Reference
Magic fiddles and wonderworking fiddlers. From Wordnik.com. [For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music] Reference
Let him take heed to himself, and see to it that he run not after gold, nor set his trust on money, but let the gold run after him, and money wait on his favor, and let him love none of these things nor set his heart on them; then he is the true, generous, wonderworking, happy man, as Job xxxi says: "I have never yet: relied upon gold, and never yet made gold my hope and confidence.". From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Good Works] Reference
According, therefore, to the established custom of the early settlers, the stranger for whom Algernon proceeded to make inquiries, was entitled to all the rights of hospitality; and whether liked or disliked, could not consistently be smiled away, nor frowned away, as doubtless he would have been, had he lived in this civil, wonderworking age of lightning and steam; and though his appearance was any thing but agreeable to Mrs. Younker, who surveyed him through her spectacles (being a little near sighted) from the adjoining cabin, whither Algernon had repaired to learn her decision; and though it would prove inconvenient to herself to grant his request; yet, as she expressed it, "He war a stranger, as hadn't no home and didn't know whar to go to; and prehaps war hungry, poor man; and it wouldn't be right nor Christian-like to refuse him jest. From Wordnik.com. [Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

