Wonder-working

The fame of her beauty began to spread abroad through all the villages around- but why do I say the villages around, merely, when it spread to distant cities, and even made its way into the halls of royalty and reached the ears of people of every class, who came from all sides to see her as if to see something rare and curious, or some wonder-working image?

Go to Kolyazin where a wonder-working icon of the Holy Mother of God has been revealed.' On hearing those words I said good-by to the holy folk and went."

And hard upon that unrefined but wonder-working flow came a certain healing of spirit.

Giacomo Rappaccini, it is true, nor his brilliant daughter, were now visible; so that Giovanni could not determine how much of the singularity which he attributed to both was due to their own qualities and how much to his wonder-working fancy; but he was inclined to take a most rational view of the whole matter.

The people have been looking for a wonder-working messiah by whose political might the power and glory of Israel might be restored, a messiah who would lead them to victory.

Shortly after the saint's death, his remains, which were thought to have wonder-working powers, were transferred to Sofia during the reign of Peter I.

Southwell does not explicitly deny the folk tradition of a wonder-working Christ Child any more than he denies that the Christ Child grew and learned: he merely asserts that even the Gospel writers are unworthy to write of the miraculous acts springing from his divinity and humanity in this period of Christ's life.

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses?

Before the Metzger allegations, there were the Sephardic "wonder-working" kabbalists, who give out advice, blessings and amulets while attending their followers' family events, and who collect sums for these and other services so mind-boggling that several of them were featured on a 2012 Forbes list of the 10 richest rabbis in Israel.

Just when we think we can't take any more about the wonder-working properties of a 40mm plastic ball we are asked to take seriously the proposition that by putting Moscow on the defensive ping-pong diplomacy may have helped bring down the Soviet Union." GEORGE WALDEN

Jesus was a wonder-working Galilean sage and prophet, not a divine figure, and he asked for self-surrender to God, not "intellectual acrobatics" (236).

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