Use coarse in a sentence
Sentences ending with coarse
- Nobody can help liking the creature, he means so well--but I do dread to come across him again; he's bound to set us all crazy, of coarse. [5]
- Indeed, they thought it nothing less than profanation to apply the words genius and glory to dramas which they considered as crude as they were coarse. [4]
Short sentences using coarse
- It is coarse and hideous. [10]
Sentences containing coarse two or more times
- If the age was coarse in speech or specially affected in manner, the books followed the lead given by the demand; but, coarse or affected, they had the quality of art demanded by the best existing cultivation. [4]
- But for all this my cousin had a coarse look, and his polished blue flints of eyes were those of a coarse man. [9]
- The grain of the coral is coarse and porous; the road-bed has the look of being made of coarse white sugar. [5]
- My old Plunkett family seemed wonderfully coarse and vulgar on the stage, but it was because they were played in such an outrageously and inexcusably coarse way. [5]
- The coarse wine and coarse food of the lower coffee-houses of London had replaced the rich and abundant fare of Maryland. [9]
More example sentences with the word coarse in them
- At the first words of the coarse song there rushed on him the dreaded thirst. [11]
- The whole Bankside, with its taverns, play-houses, and worse, its bear pits and gardens, was the scene of roystering and coarse amusement. [4]
- A coarse barmaid, who had grown up in the camp, served the assembled men, but she had no occasion to hurry, for the Spaniards were slow drinkers. [10]
- The proverbs, of which his talk was full, were for the most part not the coarse and indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom. [2]
- The patched tablecloths which he spread over the tops were coarse and much worn; the dishes carried after him by the two assistants, whose knees bent under the burden, were made of tin, and marred by many a dent. [10]
- His hands, which were of a rough, coarse grain, were very dirty; his fingernails were crooked, long, and yellow. [12]
- The wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity to the Emperor shocked Rostov. [2]
- The table cloth was of very coarse material and was liberally spotted with coffee stains and grease. [5]
- They were coarse, unsubstantial, freckled all over with broad yellow splotches, and could neither stand wear nor public exhibition. [5]
- Prince Vasili frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. [2]
- His crooked mouth twisted to and fro in strange contortions, not a muscle of his coarse face was till, and this looked so odd and yet so horrible, that Ruth could not help laughing, and the smith asked what ailed him. [10]
- There were people, too; brawny men, with long, coarse, uncombed hair that hung down over their faces and made them look like animals. [5]
- Their coarse, barbaric tones shook the air, and reduced the Greeks to silence; for, even in his drunken and most reckless moods, the Greek never lost his subtle refinement. [10]
- At the stations to-day we see more friars in coarse, woolen dresses, and sandals, and the peasants with wooden sabots. [4]
- I felt at times rebuked by her superior delicacy and purity, and as if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison. [4]
- At last, in this coarse garb we wear, she recognized him in the street. [5]
- He was a thick-set man of middle height, with a large head, and clever but coarse features, as rudely moulded as if they had been carved from wood. [10]
- No pomp was there, no glory shone around On the coarse straw that strewed the reeking ground; One dim retreat a flickering torch betrayed, In that poor cell the Lord of Life was laid! [6]
- Every now and then one comes across a friar of orders gray, with shaven head, long, coarse robe, rope girdle and beads, and with feet cased in sandals or entirely bare. [5]
- A few of the riff-raff, who invariably attend these public scenes, were now rather the worse for drink, from the indifferent liquor provided by the auctioneer, and they were inclined to horseplay and coarse chaff. [11]
- And, to say the plain truth, I think there are a good many coarse people in both callings. [6]
- The experiences of the last few hours had converted the carefully bedizened gallant into a coarse fellow, whose outward appearance bore visible tokens of his mental depravity. [10]
- I speak of the Dominican friars--men who wear a coarse, heavy brown robe and a cowl, in this hot climate, and go barefoot. [5]
- So this was the beginning of the Napoleon "legend"; and by-and-by this coarse head will be idealized into the Roman Emperor type, in which I myself might have believed but for the revelations of the night of strange adventure. [4]
- He wore clothes that were anything but new, a slouch hat, and coarse grained, square-toed boots. [9]
- The contents of that old glove will buy him the willing service of many an adroit sinner, and with what that coarse sack contains he can purchase the prayers of holy men for all succeeding time. [6]
- I am aware that it is said that the culture of the age is itself materialistic, and that its refinements are sensual; that there is little to choose between the coarse excesses of poverty and the polished and more decorous animality of the more fortunate. [4]
- Some pinched in tender places; some were too loose; some were too square-toed; some were too coarse, and did n't please; some were too thin, and would n't last;--in short, they could n't possibly find a fit. [6]
- I had been stripped of my clothes, and put into some coarse and rough material, the colour and condition of which I could not see for want of light. [9]
- I will not stay an instant longer to be the butt of this man's coarse and spiteful jesting. [10]
- He at first stammered out a few unintelligible words, but his opponent was in fearful earnest with his question; he seized the collar of the anchorite's coarse garment with terrible violence, and cried in a husky voice, "Where did you find the dog? [10]
- We saw one single coarse yellow hair from Lucrezia's head, likewise. [5]
- His severely formal, simple ecclesiastical dress, coarse in material but perfect in its saintly lines, separated him from the world in which he moved so unostentatiously and humbly, and marked him as one who went about doing good. [4]
- On the higher shelves were mummy bands and shrouds, some coarse, others of the very finest texture, wigs for the bald heads of shaven corpses, or woolen fillets, and simply or elaborately embroidered ribbons for the Greek dead. [10]
- When it passed, she lay still and nerveless between the coarse sheets, and sank into a deep sleep just as the dawn crept through the cracks of the blind. [11]
- From this I shall go to the tomb of my father, where I shall take off this coarse thing, and these other disfigurements, and shall wait for my chariot, which is already ordered. [10]
- Here she sat sewing upon some coarse linen for a poor fisherwoman's babe when the Seigneur came near. [11]
- A body can set down and read it off like coarse print. [5]
- To her he seemed coarse, incomprehensible, ungentlemanly. [11]
- Presently my man sat me down by a tank of hot water, drenched me well, gloved his hand with a coarse mitten, and began to polish me all over with it. [5]
- Quantities of coarse salt and sulphate of copper were added, from time to time to assist the amalgamation by destroying base metals which coated the gold and silver and would not let it unite with the quicksilver. [5]
- It had a rude brass-wire cover to it, and a little coarse iron chain suspended from the bowl, with an iron splinter attached to loosen up the tobacco and pick your teeth with. [5]
- This view is rendered all the more probable, as it is known that fine, short, and pale-coloured hairs on the limbs and other parts of the body, occasionally become developed into "thickset, long, and rather coarse dark hairs," when abnormally nourished near old-standing inflamed surfaces. [1]
- I had a pretty heavy knapsack; it was laden with provisions--provisions for the king to taper down on, till he could take to the coarse fare of the country without damage. [5]
- Effaced was the picture of the plodding recruits with their coarse and ill-fitting uniforms of blue. [9]
- What should drop out of it, one day, but a small heart-shaped paper, containing a lock of that straight, coarse, brown hair which sets off the sharp faces of so many thin-flanked, large-handed bumpkins! [6]
- We talk about our free institutions;--they are nothing but a coarse outside machinery to secure the freedom of individual thought. [6]
- And there were other clamors--the clatter of rushing feet, merry congratulations, bursts of coarse laughter, the rolling of drums, the boom and crash of distant bands profaning the sacred day with the music of victory and thanksgiving. [5]
- Italy has three or four domestic brands: the Minghetti, the Trabuco, the Virginia, and a very coarse one which is a modification of the Virginia. [5]
- Here and there, on the fronts of roadside inns, we found huge, coarse frescoes of suffering martyrs like those in the shrines. [5]
- The English warders on the battlements laughed a coarse laugh, forgetting that every one must begin, and that there had been a time when they themselves would have fared no better when shot by a jackass. [5]
- We scrubbed it off with a coarse towel and rode off with a splendid brand-new smell, though it was one which was not any more disagreeable than those we have been for several weeks enjoying. [5]
- The wild ceremonies of the Syrians, who maimed themselves in their mad ecstasy, repelled him as being coarse and barbarous. [10]
- All the literature of the supernatural was as real to me as the laboratory of the chemist, where I saw the continual struggle of material substances to evolve themselves into more volatile, less palpable and coarse forms. [4]
- She made much of the question, which they left her to debate alone while they gazed solemnly at her till she characterized the tone of the mandolin, when Mela broke into a large, coarse laugh. [8]
- They were tired of the coarse and monotonous fare, and took no interest in it, had no appetite for it. [5]
- A snug sense of comfort stole over him, which was rudely broken, the next moment, by a chorus of piping cackles and coarse laughter. [5]
- A hideous hubbub of coarse, loud voices pierced her unaccustomed ears; she could have sunk on the earth and cried; but she kept up her courage and collected all her energies, for she saw in the distance a large gilt cross over a lofty doorway. [10]
- Some present were of coarse calibre--bushranging sons of seigneurs and petty nobles, dashing and profane, and something barbarous; but most had gifts of person and speech, and all seemed capable. [11]
- The sufferer wore nothing but a short petticoat of coarse light-blue stuff. [10]
- He was barefoot no longer, though freckled still, grown lanky and tall; he wore a coarse blue apron that fell below his knees, and a pencil was stuck behind his ear. [9]
- The mouth was neither small nor sensuous, the chin was strong without being coarse, the figure was not suggestive. [11]
- It was hardly necessary: when anything or anybody wishes to be caught, a bare hook and a coarse line are all that is needed. [6]
- I was a mighty rough, coarse, unpromising subject when Livy took charge of me 4 years ago, and I may still be, to the rest of the world, but not to her. [5]
- The kind of man was new to Gaston: self-indulgent, intelligent, heavily nourished, nonchalant, with a coarse kind of handsomeness. [11]
- But this young man was clothed in the plain blue calico of the fellah, and on his head was a coarse brown fez of raw wool. [11]
- The opening which led into it was wide, but at present closed by a hanging of coarse stuff. [10]
- Everything looked so large, so coarse, so insistent, so menacing, and reminded her at every step of some injustice or some deed of which she was ashamed. [10]
- Mr. Flint was large and very ugly, big-boned, smooth-shaven, with coarse features all askew, and a large nose with many excrescences, and thick lips. [9]
- In vain did journals and speakers of the opposition represent him as a lightminded trifler, who amused himself with frivolous story-telling and coarse jokes, while the blood of the people was flowing in streams. [7]
- Now this hair is as coarse and harsh as that of a horse's mane, whilst the hair of other colours is fine and soft. [1]
- He placed them in the hands of the old man, who drew a clean towel of coarse linen from a small cupboard in the wall above his head. [11]
- Yes, and clothed in the coarse garb of the peasantry, these two. [5]
- And the wonder in Stephen's mind was that this man who could be a buffoon, whose speech was coarse and whose person unkempt, could prove himself a tower of morality and truth. [9]
- She was dressed in coarse garments; it struck him that her grief had a touch of commonness about it; there was something imperfect in the dramatic setting. [11]
- An old man in coarse blue linen came out of the lodge and spoke to me. [9]
- The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. [2]
- It was as if a light had been kindled in a carved and painted lantern and the intricate, skillful, artistic work on its sides, that previously seemed dark, coarse, and meaningless, was suddenly shown up in unexpected and striking beauty. [2]
- They chucked the housewife and her daughters under the chin whilst receiving the food from their hands, and made coarse jests about them, accompanied with insulting epithets and bursts of horse-laughter. [5]
- He had kept his side of the gulf, but gloating on this touch between the old luxurious, indulgent life, with its refined vices, and this present coarse, hard life, where pleasures were few and gross. [11]
- When he got his lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest and most commonplace and unattractive. [5]
- Pierre reached out his hand, and drank the water and ate the coarse bread that had been put near him. [11]
- More people passed him, and spoke of him to each other, though there was no coarse curiosity--the habitant has manners. [11]
- Laura had given herself utterly to her husband, and if he had faults, if he was selfish, if he was sometimes coarse, if he was dissipated, she did not or would not see it. [5]
- Ingolby could not help but notice how coarse the hands were--with fingers suddenly ending as though they had been cut off, and puffy, yellowish skin that suggested fat foods, or worse. [11]
- You were told..." Helene laughed, "that Dolokhov was my lover," she said in French with her coarse plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other word, "and you believed it! [2]
- I would not have it thought that anything was openly coarse or brutal; it was all by innuendo, and brow-lifting, and maddening, allusive phrases such as it is thought fit for gentlefolk to use instead of open charge. [11]
- Warwick was a hard man, a rude, coarse man, a man without compassion. [5]
- He was not handsome, and she had known that always; but he seemed rough and coarse to-day. [11]
- We lived from hand to mouth-lived on the coarse fare of unwilling charity, and for weeks and weeks together not a morsel of food passed my lips, for its character revolted me and I could not eat it. [5]
- I could not go into ecstasies over its coarse mosaics, its unlovely Byzantine architecture, or its five hundred curious interior columns from as many distant quarries. [5]
- These robust men give rein to all their passions, delight in the strength of their limbs like Carmen, indulge in coarse language, undisguised sensuality, enjoy gross jests, brutal buffooneries. [4]
- She said those gentle words and wept those compassionate tears although one of those perishing men had grossly insulted her with a coarse name three days before, when she had sent him a message asking him to surrender. [5]
- I saw men generous to their kind, industrious and brave, beloved by their fellows; and I have seen these same men drink and dance and give themselves to coarse, rough play like young dogs in a kennel. [11]
- Trouble slips away from him as rain is shaken from the coarse military cloak which he wore in the Parthian war, and therefore it cannot exert its purifying power. [10]
- Once more 'King Foo-foo the First' was roving with the tramps and outlaws, a butt for their coarse jests and dull-witted railleries, and sometimes the victim of small spitefulness at the hands of Canty and Hugo when the Ruffler's back was turned. [5]
- The unaccustomed coarse food, the vodka he drank during those days, the absence of wine and cigars, his dirty unchanged linen, two almost sleepless nights passed on a short sofa without bedding--all this kept him in a state of excitement bordering on insanity. [2]
- Early on the following clay the dwarf Nemu went past the restored hut of Uarda's father--in which he had formerly lived with his wife--with a man in a long coarse robe, the steward of some noble family. [10]
- But his thick, flaxen hair lacked the tonsure, the rope the rosary, and he wore coarse leather shoes on his large feet. [10]
- This seems a fitting place to state how utterly unconscious she was of what was, by some, esteemed coarse in her writings. [14]
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