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Sentences starting with rough

Rough Appenzelder regarded this as fortunate; Gombert thought it a matter of course because custom so ordained. [10]
Rough misdemeanours among them had been many, there had once been a murder in the parish, but the undefined horrors of infidelity were more shameful than crimes the eye could see. [11]
Rough work, iconoclasm,--but the only way to get at truth. [6]
Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing. [6]
Rough weather coming on, the vessel anchored under the lee of the little isle St. Mary, off Nice, in Savoy. [4]
Rough soldiers snatched my wrapper from my face, and my cloak from off my shoulders. [10]
Rough old Beki keeps watch at the door of the tablinum. [10]
Rough words had been passed; and so, nothing but blood could fix it up after that. [5]

Sentences ending with rough

Grandmother, why is your skin so rough? [10]
And a sea voyage on the Atlantic is of no use--voyage too short, sea too rough. [5]
Yet there the voices sounded, one sharp and peevish with anger, the other low and rough. [11]
The reply of the Judge was impatient, almost peevish and rough. [11]
Tell me," says she, pointing at the royal yard of a tall East Indiaman, "did you go as high as that when it was rough? [9]
It's in the rough yet, in the rough. [5]
To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough. [12]
At the end of this twelve working-hours' appreticeship I was graduated--in the rough. [5]
It takes considerably longer than that to learn horseback-riding in the rough. [5]
I told 'em livin' in Kaintuck was kinder rough. [9]

Short sentences using rough

Thou art needlessly rough, methinks. [5]
We had it awful rough. [5]
Rough! [11]

Sentences containing rough two or more times

But her husband was rough on me--many times he was rough on me--and mainly he was the justice of the peace that jugged me for a vagrant. [5]
They were a rough lot, but that's nothing; everybody looks rough that travels afoot. [5]
Boxing is rough play, but not too rough for a hearty young fellow. [6]
Why, I could have been a Rough Rider myself if I had known that this political Klondike was going to open up, and I would have been a Rough Rider if I could have gone to war on an automobile but not on a horse! [5]
She nor her father never tired of hearing his rough tales of Price's rough army. [9]

More example sentences with the word rough in them

We talked--I told you of my sisters, Nan and Bet--ah, yes, you remember that; and about mine old grandam--and the rough games of the lads of Offal Court--yes, you remember these things also; very well, follow me still, you shall recall everything. [5]
She told how you had followed a fox over one of your rough provincial counties, which means three of Hertfordshire, with your arm broken, by Heaven! [9]
Anyhow, that seven years was rough on Rachel. [11]
For a whole year I have dissembled to every one save to that poor mad soul Mathilde, who reads my heart in her wild way, to Voban, and to the rough soldier outside your dungeon. [11]
Such rough treatment would also have blunted the sense of touch, on which their delicate use largely depends. [1]
After he had worked at the Rathhaus long after hours, he would go home alone, and no one sought him out to pass an hour in his company, for everyone feared the rough and brutal frankness of his speech. [10]
Now that saffron with the rough edges is very--artistic. [9]
If they're rough with it, it'll tumble down like a pack of cards--simply because we're asses. [9]
Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. [6]
A cynical philosopher, who proclaimed his sect by his ragged garment, unkempt hair, and rough mode of speech, declared that Caesar had a senator to guide his chariot because he had long since succeeded in turning the senate-house into a stable. [10]
There were others who had climbed to success in their own way, some by happy accident, some by a force which disregarded anything in their way, and some by sheer honest rough merit, through which the soul of the true pioneer shone. [11]
The room in which David found himself was lofty and large, but was furnished with only a rough wooden bed, a rug, and a brazier. [11]
The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
His hands, which were of a rough, coarse grain, were very dirty; his fingernails were crooked, long, and yellow. [12]
An hour ago we saw the Falls of the Rhone, a prodigiously rough and dangerous looking place; shipped a little water but came to no harm. [5]
The only adventures we have is in drifting into rough seas now and then. [5]
Ole missus--dat's Miss Watson--she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans. [5]
Try the rough water as well as the smooth. [6]
This western curve was the only part of the valley where the walls had been split asunder, and it was a wildly rough and inaccessible corner. [13]
Beyond these there was the jaunting-car trundling over the rough cobblestone street, or bumping in and out of dangerous holes. [11]
And though I was somewhat awed by the strangeness of that dark, ill-smelling room, and by the rough company in which I found myself, I held my ground, and spoke up as strongly as I might. [9]
Well, as I was saying, it is the fashion to write descriptions of Vesuvius; and you might as well have mine, which I shall give to you in rough outline. [4]
The memorandum (which was only rough and not wholly legible notes) had been found and sent to Carmen. [4]
And the mantel was now but a bit of a shelf, and held many things that seemed scarce at home on the rough and painted wood,--gold filigree; and China and Japan, and a French clock that ought not to have been just there. [9]
This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
She could already walk firmly enough to mount the few rough steps which led to the opening in the rocks and, obeying the tameless yearning of her heart, she rose from the arm-chair and walked as rapidly as her feeble strength permitted toward the frigidarium. [10]
After a rough voyage this noble old knight reached the Bermudas. [4]
I know their voice is often rude and rough, but it utters wholesome truths, and no one needs to hear truth more than a king. [10]
She felt a violent shock, the pitcher flew out of her hand and was shattered into a thousand fragments, and she sank to the ground under the weight of a warm, rough, heavy mass. [10]
A man of very uncouth and rough appearance was standing over them, and two of his companions were looking on, from a long heavy boat which had come close to the bank while they were sleeping. [12]
Looking to a very remote period in the history of the world, we find, to use Sir J. Lubbock's well-known terms, a paleolithic and neolithic period; and no one will pretend that the art of grinding rough flint tools was a borrowed one. [1]
No pilot ever ventured to a ship on such rough seas as Gaspard ventured for small profit or glory. [11]
But Wrangle, as Venters led him, snorted defiance or disgust rather than fear, and, like a hobbled horse on the jump, lifted his ponderous iron-shod fore hoofs and crashed down over the first rough step. [13]
But we are used to the outbursts, and extravagances, and oddities of Number Seven, and do not take offence at his rough speeches as we should if any other of the company uttered them. [6]
He, who was used to linen sheets and eider down, was without rough blanket or shelter; who was used to the best table in the state, was reduced to husks. [9]
It was not until two mornings later that Hugh tossed her across the breakfast table a pink envelope with a wide flap and rough edges. [9]
They travelled together, until one day some rough farmers with shotguns leaped out of a bunch of willows on the borders of a creek and arrested all three for Union spies. [9]
His brown eyes under the rough thatch of his eyebrow took in the room with lightning glance, and he nodded respectfully, yet with great friendliness, at John Grier. [11]
Towards sunset about twenty hay-wagons arrived and camped around the house and all the teamsters came in to supper--a very, very rough set. [5]
Then we have tried for governor an illustrious Rough Rider, and we liked him so much in that great office that now we have made him Vice-President--not in order that that office shall give him distinction, but that he may confer distinction upon that office. [5]
You are much too rough, and too masterful. [9]
I have listened to the touching experiences of the Bearded Lady, whose rough cheeks belie her susceptible heart. [6]
By rough ways to the stars--Nay what they say to me is: Upward, under the burden of the cross, to bliss here and hereafter--And you too," he added, looking in his darling's face. [10]
The river-driver chose to spend his idle hours in crude, rough sprightliness; the salmon-fisher loved to lie upon the shore and listen to the village story-teller,--almost official when successful,--who played upon the credulity and imagination of his listeners. [11]
That he had to some degree rough power, of course, but power; and she loved power, force. [11]
How were they to know that the fate of the United States of America was concealed in that Question, --was to be decided on a rough wooden platform that day in the town of Freeport, Illinois? [9]
In her behavior to her mother Natasha seemed rough, but she was so sensitive and tactful that however she clasped her mother she always managed to do it without hurting her or making her feel uncomfortable or displeased. [2]
It was time to get in again, but Barbara dreaded the ride over the rough, crowded highway, and begged her companion to pursue their journey a little farther on foot. [10]
I went straight to General Grant's headquarters,--just a plain, rough slat house such as a contractor might build for a temporary residence. [9]
That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy--is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it! [12]
This was a time for broad policy-- for distribution of cassavi bread, yams and papaws, for big, and maybe rough, display of power and generosity. [11]
When we get through with the London season, you know, Mrs. Henderson, we like to rough it, as you call it, for some months. [4]
As they come through the dismal passages, some officers of the jail who are in waiting there, congratulate him, in their rough way, on his release. [12]
At twenty-two George, through fighting-habits and drinking-habits acquired at sea and in the sailor boarding-houses of the European and Oriental ports, was a common rough in Hong-Kong, and out of a job; and Henry was superintendent of the Sunday-school. [5]
Failing to see this, he is isolated, and, wanting his sympathy, the untutored world mocks at his super-fineness and takes its own rough way to rougher ends. [4]
How promising was this young tree of humanity that his rough fist had broken off! [10]
He had the thick hand, stubbed fingers, with bristled pads between their joints, square, broad thumb-nails, and sturdy limbs, which mark a constitution made to use in rough out-door work. [6]
Large, brilliant, gentle, they had now also a bewildered look, which even the rough old soldier saw. [11]
The reason why there was so much slaughtering done, was, that in a new mining district the rough element predominates, and a person is not respected until he has "killed his man. [5]
But this year there had been a large number of rough, adventurous characters among the river-men, and they seemed to take delight in making sport of, and even interfering with, the salmon- fishers. [11]
Not a rough there but will resolve to emulate you. [5]
Not a rough there but will envy you. [5]
They occupied by themselves a fairly large space, enclosed by a rough wall of dried mud-bricks. [10]
Instead of taking them to the goal of the journey, as he had promised, he had deserted them in a miserable tavern by the way-side, among rough, godless lansquenets, as the mother of Moses abandoned her babe. [10]
They are bringing them one hundred and twenty miles, from Springfield to Rollo, in rough army wagons, with scarcely anything to eat or drink. [9]
They carefully guarded their open wounds from any rough and painful contact. [2]
We struck into the woods and entered upon a rough time, stumbling over roots, getting tangled in vines, and torn by briers. [5]
It was on the whole a merry journey, the first part of it, if a rough one. [9]
We stopped at the very same inn which the famous old robber-knight and rough fighter Goetz von Berlichingen, abode in after he got out of captivity in the Square Tower of Heilbronn between three hundred and fifty and four hundred years ago. [5]
Meantime the knapsacks, the rough walking-suits and the stout walking-shoes which we had ordered, were finished and brought to us. [5]
Now, Dupont, once the rough river-driver, grown prosperous in a large way for him--who might yet be mayor of his town in Quebec--he held the rod of rule. [11]
As Stephen trod the rough flags between the high grass which led toward the house, Colonel Carvel rose to his full height and greeted him. [9]
The disease of the nation was organic, and not functional, and the rough chirurgery of war was its only remedy. [6]
Yet some of the lava blocks quarried out, brought over rough, broken ground, and built into this wall, six or seven feet from the ground, are of prodigious size and would weigh tons. [5]
This sound was the imperious command of a rough man's voice, that--no, he was not mistaken--that was his own name, and it came from the lips of his Myrtilus, anxiously, urgently calling for assistance. [10]
In front of the house, not far from the lake, a man was lying asleep upon the ground, a rough felt hat drawn over his eyes. [11]
I always had the harness trick to fall back on in rough weather. [5]
Nebsecht shrank back; the greedy look, the glistening teeth, the dark, rough features of the man terrified him. [10]
The interior of the first story was nearly completed and the rough portion of the second was progressing. [10]
In the Pacific the Fijian's beard is "profuse and bushy, and is his greatest pride"; whilst the inhabitants of the adjacent archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are "beardless, and abhor a rough chin. [1]
As he neared the door with his small friend, a rough voice said-- "So, thou'rt come at last! [5]
Full striking was the difference; and the more striking because it was not the rough contrast of good and evil, but the more subtle opposition, the more delicate diversity of different kinds of good. [14]
It may be that was why rough men listened to his fancies about the Golden Pipes. [11]
With a movement that was almost rough he released himself and fled, calling back a "good night" to her out of the darkness. [9]
We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.--The way of Providence is a little rude. [6]
Is it possible that our highest civilization has lost something of the rough and admirable element that we admire in the heroes of Homer and of Elizabeth? [4]
It was not surprising that young Tom Gaylord, when he came back from New York and heard of Austen's victory, should have rushed to his office and congratulated him in a rough but hearty fashion. [9]
Even he was surprised at the fortitude and skill Virginia showed from the very first, when she had deftly cut away the stiffened blue cloth, and helped to take off the rough bandages. [9]
He was outwardly surly--as rough as he was ever before the world, and without speaking a word to me, he had a soldier lock me in a cell. [11]
Cumner's Son was supple and swift, and scarce an hour had passed ere he came to a steep place on the other side, with rough niches cut in the rocks, by which a strong man might lift himself up to safety. [11]
It has the sturdy task of a pioneer, to hack away at the tall oaks and cut the rough granite, leaving future ages to declare what it has done. [5]
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]
Scotty was a stalwart rough, whose customary suit, when on weighty official business, like committee work, was a fire helmet, flaming red flannel shirt, patent leather belt with spanner and revolver attached, coat hung over arm, and pants stuffed into boot tops. [5]
He made a spring at me, and if the keeper had not pulled me back would have treated me unhandsomely, like a quadrumanous rough, as he was. [6]
All tongues are spoken on my shores, but I have only one language: the winds taught me their vowels the crags and the sands schooled me in my rough or smooth consonants. [6]
I knew a Spartan dame once, who had a beard almost as rough as mine. [10]
They must expect some rough treatment when we lift the sash from the frame and let the outside elements in upon them. [6]
Besides the four soldiers who had brought me out, another squad surrounded me, commanded by a young officer whom I recognized as Captain Lancy, the rough roysterer who had insulted me at Bigot's palace over a year ago. [11]
So rough and so good!--My old man, to be sure, must storm and rave, but then his feeble and sickly nobody of a little wife can wind him round her finger. [10]
And all the shore, rocky and sandy, rough and smooth, happy and homely, shimmering in the radiance. [11]

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