The silence was instantly broken by a whistle the shrillest and loudest I had ever heard; the dense compressed atmosphere of the Astronaut rushing out with a force which actually created a draught through the whole vessel, to the great discomfiture of the birds, which roughed their feathers and fluttered about in dismay.

I dug in the ground with a sharp stick, and I made a li'l hole like, and I filled her in again, and tramped her all down flat, and sort of half smoothed down the roughed-up ground like I was trying to hide my tracks and what I'd been doing.

Read the thirtieth chapter of the second volume of Mark Twain's "Roughing It" (1872) and you will find Kipling's story clearly outlined.

It is wiser, one fancies, to have the matter of the scene pretty fully roughed-out before details of furniture, properties, and position are arranged.

It was not of a very exalted nature, and caused more strain upon the back than the intellect, but seven years of roughing it had left him singularly free from caste prejudices, a freedom which he soon discovered was not shared by his old acquaintances at Sunwich.

With her pregnant assistance he roughed out a scheme, so warily conceived and so faithfully elaborated, that, on its presentation to the Lords of the Signory, it was accepted almost unanimously.

It had hardly been fashionable since the time of Tiberius, but Lord Denyer went there, accompanied by his French chef, and a dozen other servants, and roughed it in a native hotel; while Lady Denyer wintered at the family seat among the hills near Bath, and gave herself over to Low Church devotion, and works of benevolence.

There was no dust, for the road was not yet dry, and a gentle land breeze just roughed the surface of the calm sea to a deeper blue.

Of their patience under the manifold hardships of roughing it in the tropics, their helpfulness in the camp and their prowess in battle, their uncomplaining suffering when lying wounded and helpless.

He was the second of the three Wilder brothers, who had been among the early gold-seekers, and tried roughing it in the mines.

Edward might have roughed it well enough there, but it would never have done for you.

'You are making a delightful experiment in roughing it,as people eat pic-nic dinners out in the woods occasionally, so that there may be a break in the monotony of chairs and tables.' While Shand had been unravelling her mystery, she, perhaps, had been more successful in unravelling his.

'You are doing a bit of roughing,no doubt for the sake of experience.

If you only knew the sort of roughing I've had in my time!' 'I dare say.' 'Salt pork and hard biscuit, and only half enough of that.

When his sitter was posed to his liking, and the artist, with a few bold, sweeping, strokes of the charcoal had roughed out his subject on the canvas, and was bending over his color-boxhe said, casually, to put her at ease, "You came alone this afternoon, did you?" "Oh, no, indeed!

If the roads are very bad, indeed, our shoes are roughed, but that makes us feel nervous at first.

Old Mrs. Hodson did everything herself, and the children roughed it how they could, playing in the mire with the pigs and geese.

He had roughed it so much in the Greenland seas, and been out in so many storms, that his face was as red as a boiled beet; but his eyes were as full of fun and merriment as a boy's.

I guess it's for people who like to think they're roughing it when they're really just as comfortable as they would be if they stayed at home.

But we're really roughing it, I guess.

His face was wet with the mist, and he had apparently oft wiped it with his hand or sleeve, for great streaks of dirt marked his cheeks and forehead, giving him a curious satanic expression, whilst his short lank hair obviously roughed up by impatient fingers, bristled above his square-built head like the coat of a shaggy dog.

He had seen horses fall on the wooden pavements in all directions; he had seen a troop of dragoons, in the midst of the frost, dismount and lead their un-roughed horses across Regent Street; the Recorder had gone round by the squares to avoid the wooden districts; one lady had ordered her coachman to stick constantly to stone; and another, when she required to go to Regent Street, dismissed her carriage and walked.

You and I have roughed it many years, and gently enough do we go down the hill.

" They roughed him forward, but West made no attempt to resist; his hands were bound, and he was helpless.

" "Wall, they have not wanted for nothing as far as I knewthe poor baby in particular;" and, as he spoke, he roughed his hair with one hand and smiled into my face a huge, honest, gummy smile, inexpressibly reassuring.