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Sentences starting with roughly

Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
Roughly described, it is a fat wooden cigar with its butt-end fastened to a flexible twig. [5]

Sentences ending with roughly

Next I discovered some emigrant wagons going into camp on the plaza and found that they had lately come through the hostile Indian country and had fared rather roughly. [5]
Miss Cynthia, a sharper-edged woman, had formed the habit of crushing everything for its moral, until it lost its sweetness and grew almost odious, as flower-de-luces do when handled roughly. [6]
They handled him roughly. [11]
And Nick seized me roughly. [9]
The auctioneer put his hand under her chin and raised it roughly. [9]
He suddenly caught her in his arms and pressed her to him almost roughly. [11]

More example sentences with the word roughly in them

Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. [6]
Then my conductor, whom I rightly judged to be the mate of this devil's crew, took me roughly by the shoulder and bade me accompany him to the cabin. [9]
The long hall, which ran from street to street, was packed, the people surging backward and forward, and falling roughly against the mahogany pieces; and apologizing, and scolding, and swearing all in a breath. [9]
It was late when we turned in, our heads upon our saddles, for the Cadi had been more than amusing--he had been confidential, and some political characters were roughly overhauled for our benefit, while so-called Society did not escape flagellation. [11]
After nightfall, as we walked in the middle of the roughly paved streets, meeting few people, and hearing only the echoing clatter of the wooden sabots of the few who were abroad, the old spirit of the place came over us. [4]
I will roughly translate one which I happen to see just now. [4]
Almost roughly he took Antoinette by the arm. [9]
He started roughly to shoulder his way out, and whether from accident or design Captain Harrod slipped in front of him, I never knew. [9]
His being seemed to expand suddenly to an enormity of chaos and then as suddenly to shrink, dwindle, and fall back into a smother--as though, in falling, blankets were drawn roughly over his head and a thousand others were shaken in the air around him. [11]
A shriek rang through the cave, and they could hear a heavy, rusty bolt drawn back, the roughly hewn door was opened, and a hoarse voice asked: "Is that Paaker? [10]
He raged and threatened on his way to punishment, but it did no good; he was snatched roughly along by the officers, and got an occasional cuff, besides, for his irreverent conduct. [5]
All day long the warriors lined the picket fence in front of the house, and more than once Tom McChesney roughly shouldered a lane through them that timid visitors might pass. [9]
I sprang through the underbrush and came down roughly into a sort of quarry, spraining my ankle on a pile of stones. [11]
The moral is that we must not roughly smash other people's idols because we know, or think we know, that they are of cheap human manufacture. [6]
I roughly estimated that there are one hundred good ones to the bushel. [4]
Gabord did not speak to me at all, but roughly hurried the soldier at his task of fire-lighting, and ordered the other to fetch a pair of stools and a jar of water. [11]
The Spiritualists have some pretty strong instincts to pry over, which no doubt have been roughly handled by theologians at different times. [6]
This structure was so roughly and inartistically heaped together that it looked as if formed by nature rather than by the hand of man. [10]
Sellers and Harry sat down and began to roughly map out the city of Napoleon on a large piece of drawing paper. [5]
But the officer roughly ordered him back. [11]
It has been roughly estimated by those best capable of judging, that when Cook discovered the Islands in 1779, the population amounted to about 300,000. [1]
The streets are roughly and badly paved with stone, and are tolerably crooked--enough so to make each street appear to close together constantly and come to an end about a hundred yards ahead of a pilgrim as long as he chooses to walk in it. [5]
He was a plain man; his sympathies were with the people; he had what is roughly known as "horse-sense," and he was homely. [4]
During fifty years, out there, the innocent passenger in need of help and information, has been mistaking the mate for the cook, and the captain for the barber--and being roughly entertained for it, too. [5]
Angelo now spoke out and said he was content with the satisfaction he had got, and if the judge--but Luigi shut him roughly up, and asked him not to make an ass of himself; adding: "And I want you to stop dodging. [5]
But the Brunswicker only replied roughly and shortly: "First those that need my help. [10]
In the opinion of the West, "big-bugs" did not come down to this kind of occupation unless they had been roughly handled by fate or fortune. [11]
And they must not be struck, or roughly accosted; Sandy could not bear to see them treated in ways unbecoming their rank. [5]
The streets were narrow and roughly paved, and there was not a sidewalk or a street-lamp anywhere. [5]
In a few moments the conductor entered, and without waiting an explanation, said roughly to the lady, "Now you can't sit there. [5]
But those were mere words, for, when I besought you to grant me some repose, you scorned my very reasonable request, and roughly ordered me to remain and attend on you. [10]
Flint had a meek English youth of sixteen or seventeen with him, whom he treated roughly, both in public and in private; and of course this lad was applied to for information, but with no success. [5]
And it is just so with the poet, though he were only finishing an epigram; you must no more meddle roughly with him than you would shake a bottle of Chambertin and expect the "sunset glow" to redden your glass unclouded. [6]
A Moslem grave is usually roughly plastered over and whitewashed, and has at one end an upright projection which is shaped into exceedingly rude attempts at ornamentation. [5]
The other mendicants, however, treated her so roughly, and the cruel enmity with which they tried to crowd her out of her place seemed so unbearable, that she could not hold out. [10]
A man shouldered his way through, roughly, and they gave back, cursing, surprised. [9]
The dentist gives him some yellow liquid to hold in his mouth, which the man insists on swallowing, wets a handkerchief and washes his face, roughly rubbing his nose the wrong way, and lets him go. [4]
A man shook him roughly by the shoulder. [11]
The blue cloth hid the face of the maiden, but her eyes must surely have sparkled brightly when she so roughly stopped the game. [10]
He put his hand to his head, then rubbed his eyes roughly and looked up again. [11]
He would not grant my prayer that he should show himself to Ann in his knight's harness, and said somewhat roughly that she loved not such mummery. [10]
Poor Miles was going to explain, but the officer roughly silenced him, and ordered his men to disarm him and search him. [5]
We took refuge from the hardest of it in a lonely chalet high up on the hillside, where a roughly dressed, frowzy Swiss, who spoke bad German, and said he was a schoolmaster, gave us a bench in the shed of his schoolroom. [4]
But if Sir Franz knew not already that he, to whom he spoke as roughly as though he were a froward serving man, was in truth son and heir of a right noble house, he learnt it now. [10]
Seeing the Chevalier's danger, he dropped his tool-basket through the open window of a house and forced his way through the crowd, roughly knocking from under them the feet of two or three ruffians who opposed him. [11]
The iron shoe came down, slipped a little, grazed his side roughly, and sank between himself and the dervish next him, who had shrunk away at the last moment. [11]
It is nothing but a dismal cavern, roughly hewn in the living rock of the Hill of Calvary. [5]
A few steps brought them to an ill-constructed fence of canestalks, palm-branches, briars and straw, roughly thrown together. [10]
The doors were besieged by a mob of shabby fellows, (illotum vulgus,) who were at length quieted after two or three had been somewhat roughly handled (gladio jugulati). [6]
A hole has been roughly pierced in it. [6]
The narrow passages are roughly hewn in the rock, and on each hand as you pass along, the hollowed shelves are carved out, from three to fourteen deep; each held a corpse once. [5]
First one, then another, brushed roughly against Charley. [11]
He was impulsive, and was occasionally, I have heard it said, over excited, when his prejudices were roughly handled. [6]
I stepped inside, and Gabord ordered the ropes off my person somewhat roughly, watched the soldiers till they were well away, and then leaned against the wall, waiting for me to speak. [11]
Herse, too, looked agitated, her face was red and she dragged little Papias, whose hand she held, rather roughly at her heels. [10]
The Roman looked after her, and as she passed by Hadrian's statue, and, as she did so, dropped her head rather lower than before, he roughly ordered her to stop and to tell him why she had averted her face from the statue of Caesar. [10]
And then, on a sudden, she stood firm on her feet, bid me depart right roughly, and pointed to the door; and I was ready and swift enough in departing. [10]

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