He was a frightfully coarse, huge old beast, with great paws, large, glistening tusks, and wicked little eyes!

Yet there are writers who would have us believe that these Indians, Eskimos, and Africans, who manifest their appetite for food in so disgustingly coarse a way, are in their love-affairs as sentimental and aesthetic as we are!

" This coarse, dastardly, and rather stupid stratagem he put into execution as quickly as possible.

"I knows we allers tinks of a home as a place where dere is good times, an' dere don't seem much good times goin' for some of us in dis worl', but dere ain't no call fer us ter spec' ter be better off dan our Lord, an ef we'se feedin' on de Lord Jesus all de time we won't min' ef de worl's bread is scarce; de soul ain't dependin' on dem tings fer nourishmen' an' de Lord Jesus makes de hard bed easy an' de coarse food taste good.

One need only compare any two parallel characters, the common profligate, Lady Mellasin, for instance, with the delightfully coarse Madam Duval, to see how little the author of "Evelina" could have learned from the pages of Mrs. Haywood.

The Calibanish wonderment of all my visitors at the exceedingly coarse and simple furniture and rustic means of comfort of my abode is very droll.

" "It strikes me as being excessively coarse!"

Its merriment is that of the friarsa coarse merriment of dirty jests, of greasy words and hoarse laughs.

" Usually, of course, these grotesquely coarse compliments are paid by the enamored men.

The I.G., who refused to accept any special privileges, slept in a tiny back room and cheerfully ate the mule, which was hatefully coarse while it was fat and unutterably tough when it grew lean.

Oh! quite horribly coarse, but then so truea great matter in works of art, which, now-a-days, appear to be thought excellent only in proportion to their lack of ideal elevation.

Mr. STODDART is an exceptionally able actor, but of late he has grown intolerably coarse and vulgar while on the stage.

They are almost invariably coarse and ugly, with the exception of their eyes, with a peculiarly awkward gait, and forms bent by burthens.

So more than masculinely coarse she was in some ways, indeed, that Henry James once insinuated that, while she may have been to all intents and purposes a man, she was certainly no gentleman.

There is only one passage which is objectionably coarse in the English version and in the Hebrew original obscene; yet, on the other hand, I maintain that the whole poem is purely Oriental in its exclusively sensuous and often sensual character, and that there is not a trace of romantic sentiment such as would color a similar love-story if told by a modern poet.

His tone of morals is always low, and often offensively coarse.

Who designed these wild pictures, glaringly coloured and common, seldom amusing and often outrageously coarse?

The paper is generally abominable, the type is so small as to be painful to the eyes, and would almost lead one to suppose it had been adopted at the suggestion of a conclave of 'cute oculists: the style of language in attacking adversaries is very low: the terms employed are painfully coarse, and there is a total absence of dignity; besides which they are profuse caterers to the vanity of the nation.

It was clear that there must have been land close by, for between the beds of coal, as you all know, the rock is principally coarse sandstone, which could only have been laid down (as I have explained to you already) in very shallow water.

In the Ming epoch the porcelain with blue decoration on a white ground became general; the first examples, from the famous kilns in Ching-te-chen, in the province of Kiangsi, were relatively coarse, but in the fifteenth century the production was much finer.

This school is seldom coarse, vulgar or sensuous, does not mistake the depraved and beastly for the natural.

The plain collars and cuffs which relieved the dull color of the men's doublets were of singularly coarse linen not beyond reproach as to cleanliness, and altogether innocent of starch; whilst the thick brown worsted stockings displayed many a hole through which the flesh peeped, and the shoes of roughly tanned leather were down at heel and worn through at the toes.

He is not finely fibred; not a man who appeals to me; though I am very sorry for the slight that the Congress has put upon him; and it is easy to see that he is a brave and dashing officer, even if a trifle coarse in the grain and inclined to be a little showy.

The conversation needed all the excuse the occasion could afford, and the wit would have appeared unduly coarse in a common pot-house.

Many pigs were running about the villagesmall in size, lean and long legged, usually black, with coarse bristlesalso two or three dogs, similar to those seen at Brierly Island.