He's a raspy old fellow; but he's such a little, old, withered wisp of a chap, you'll soon get used to him.

The bark was like cloth, raspy and flexible, wrapped around and around the heart of the tree.

" He whirled about with a quick gesture of his hands, a harsh, raspy laugh that was very near a sob, and left her.

"Come out," said Mrs. Gibbs, in a raspy voice.

"What are you talking about?" she inquired, in a raspy voice.

It was such a disgustingly sleety, blowy, snowy, windy, raspy, muddy day, as you never saw.

Yellow Handkerchief sat down in the bottom alongside of me, and I could feel him straining to repress his raspy, hacking cough.

I heard a raspy, hacking cough, and my heart stood still.

At such times I could see his villainous face plainly, and, when the sulphur from the matches irritated his lungs, between the raspy cough that followed and the clammy mud in which I was lying, I confess I shivered harder than ever.

I watched intently, but my ears were rewarded first, by a raspy cough I knew only too well.