Steel Brightblade's voice was rough-edged, jagged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of Summer Flame]

Close to the margin lay a rough-edged clumsy flint.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Gone was the rough-edged exterior; gone were the scowling lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

Cloud Monsters follows the rough-edged, trash-talking crew of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cloud Monsters of the Oort | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News] Reference

Gingerly she took the rough-edged shell and lifted it to her lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

That love note, rough-edged and wrinkled, had a curious effect on me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Shapiro: Other People's Love Letters] Reference

The Quilaks jutted up behind, rough-edged peaks still covered in snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grave Denied]

When he spoke his voice was rough-edged as if the pain still tore at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Funeral In Blue]

"Have you seen Imogen?" he demanded, urgency making his voice rough-edged.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Funeral In Blue]

His throaty, rough-edged voice is as much a part of the song as its lyrics.    From Wordnik.com.  [And They Could Sing, Too] Reference

The friendly East again : People did seem to be a bit more rough-edged in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weimar, a City Without Soap, and Buchenwald] Reference

I'd stopped I could almost reach out and touch the rough-edged smooth-topped concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference

Yes, John McCain -- intemperate and rough-edged, of sharp elbows and even sharper tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: Don't Be Confused, I'm Serious About Ending War] Reference

Idris Elba as the scar-faced, rough-edged Roque is the only character with any dimension.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Losers': An appropriate title for violent, offensive film] Reference

But in years gone by the town was emblematic of a rough-edged, cut-price kind of glamour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brighton: the grit and the glamour] Reference

The peak sheered out of a lower slope above the rubble, a rough-edged hundred-meter obelisk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genesis]

Attempts to save Browne from the results of his own rough-edged candor had been made and had failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder to Go]

Lorn eases toward the square granite columns, listening as he does, recognizing the rough-edged voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magi'i Of Cyador]

As a result, even the most rough-edged artists have retooled their images to appeal to the toddler set.    From Wordnik.com.  [How novels came to terms with the internet] Reference

Yet Microsoft's moral appeals carry limited weight with customers in the rough-edged economies of Eastern Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft Cops] Reference

And a full complement of Federation soldiers, she was about to say when the Morgawr's rough-edged voice stopped her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilse Witch]

Likewise, Daniel Craig, with his ability to play both rough-edged and resilient, is a good choice for Mikael Blomkvist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Boursaw: What Makes the Dragon Tattoo Films so Compelling?] Reference

But in years gone by – the 60s in particular – the town was emblematic of a rough-edged, cut-price kind of glamour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brighton: the grit and the glamour] Reference

Things are always more interesting when they are still a little provisional, rough-edged and buzzing with new enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the road with Gordon] Reference

He enlisted the help of friends to make a rough-edged Web site — and by the end of the day had received several e-mails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock Star CEOs] Reference

She became aware, though dimly, of the sharpness of his elbow, the bite of a rough-edged rock between her shoulder blades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lioness]

It was pointed, rough-edged, and designed to fit flush with the top of the hollow that had been excavated in the living wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mid Flinx]

In place of smooth four-part harmony, we hear heavy, rough-edged unison singing with a keening falsetto countermelody on top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lovely Sounds of Sorrow] Reference

More important to Lorn is that Kusyl, rough-edged as he is, is loyal to Lorn and to the Mirror Lancers, not to blind ambition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magi'i Of Cyador]

Bukowski was so rough-edged, and so much of the Huntington, we are staid, we are traditional, we are old-fashioned, said Hodson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exhibition Celebrates Iconoclastic Writer Charles Bukowski] Reference

Now a performance artist and community activist in Boston, Wheeler tries to capture that Malcolm in his rough-edged street poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malcolm X] Reference

A dark, rough-edged smudge had obliterated an area of the section immediately beneath us, running from its outer rim to the center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sign of the Unicorn]

Well, that's what you get -- and it works, believe it or not, as does the rest of this rough-edged but nonetheless smart little show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadway's Back -- and Booming] Reference

The silence was shattered moments later by a rough-edged sound that reverberated through the stone walls, a quick and sudden rending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morgawr]

There were moments early on when the strings sounded a little too rough-edged, but elsewhere they brought out a marvellously rosy hue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lang/LPO/Jurowski] Reference

Mr. Edwards seems to have lost traction with voters for his rough-edged campaigning, at one point drawing boos from the crowd Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Democratic Fight, Clinton Strikes Back] Reference

Pillars of square, rough-edged granite held up the roof of the porch that overlooked the swimming pool terrace and the dark river beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest]

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even If You Curse the War, You Can Still Help the Warriors - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference