They were big men, framed for such a country, defying the roughness with a roughness of their ownthese stalwart sons of old Bill Campbell.

They were big men, framed for such a country, defying the roughness with a roughness of their ownthese stalwart sons of old Bill Campbell.

Ha, ha, I see that roughness can do somewhat!

Her voice had the warm little roughness of a thrush's, which sings through a throat that is loosely strung with wires of soft gold.

That little golden roughness in her voice seemed to grate on my bared heart.

And that kind roughness of a Father's anger?"

A troope of beauteous Ladies, from whose eyes Love thousand arrows, thousand graces shootes, Puts forth theire fair hands to you and invites To their greene arbours and close shadowed walkes, Whence banisht is the roughness of our yeeres!

But Byron really fancied that he had acquitted himself with grace and dignity, and took the jocularity of his friend amissa little banter ensuedthe poet became petulant, and Mr Hobhouse walked on; while Byron, on account of his lameness, and the roughness of the pavement, took hold of my arm, appealing to me, if he could have said less, after the kind and hospitable treatment we had all received.

Judy was much exhausted, and soon fell asleep, notwithstanding the roughness of her bed.

In their very roughness, in their absolute lack of any mention of home ties or of the domestic affections, they proclaim their genuineness.

They were collected from all parts of Australia, and have been patched together by the compiler to the best of his ability, with the idea of presenting the song as nearly as possible as it was sung, rather than attempting to soften any roughness or irregularity of metre.

The meal being ended, he went into the tent to take a look at Job, the which he had done already in the early morning; for the condition of the lad preyed somewhat upon him; he being, for all his size and top-roughness, a man of surprisingly tender heart.

But in general we search in vain for some roughness to relieve the eye, and some sharpness to provoke the palate.

His complaint was not so much at the roughness of the boys, which had so frightened Cowper, as at the brutality of the teachers, who put over the school door a wretched Latin inscription translating Solomon's barbarous advice about the rod and the child.

(with roughness) I wanteda gleam from reality.

He was a Saint Louis on a throne, in marked contrast with the suspicion, duplicity, roughness, and egotism of Oliver Cromwell,the only other great man of the century who equalled Gustavus in the value of public services and enlightened mind.

Sometimes the roughness and untutored emotions of the Dartmoor characters repel the readers; but these characters form strong, picturesque groups of human beings, and their dialect adds a pleasant flavor to the novels.

"Why are you not in uniform?" he asked me, with a roughness that I fancied was somewhat mitigated by the remembrance of the many cigars I had given him, the nights we were on guard during the siege.

The next feature of this engine is, it has no wood work about it to perish with the heat and roughness of the streets.

' It must be remembered, however, that although harm in the forge may frequently arise from culpable roughness or carelessness, such is not necessarily always the case, and that quite as much injury may result from careful and conscientious workmanship when it is unfortunate enough to be based upon principles wrong in themselves to commence with.

With a sudden roughness he took her back, to devour her lips and eyes and hair with the violence of his kisses.

" "Ugh!" said Pedro, at the roughness of his coat.

Suddenly among the company there came stalking in a great literary man, an old friend of my own; handsome, too, and well-appointed enough, but with a touch of roughness and vigour that made him, I thought, like a chieftain among courtiers; and wearing the haggard air of the man who toils at his art, and cannot achieve his incommunicable hopes or capture his divine dreams.

I think, Jervis, that, in spite of the apparent roughness of the method, if you make your observations carefully, we shall have no trouble in narrowing down the inquiry to a quite small area.

This rare excellence was her complexion, which showed a perfect pink and white, without roughness, spot, or blemish, under the strong light of a noonday sun, made more dazzling by its reflection from the snow.