Adjective : a rasping voice. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : raspings of sawed wood. From Dictionary.com.
Their teeth are "rasping," sandpaperlike, instead of daggerlike. From Wordnik.com. [Zoo’s New ‘Touch the Sharks’ Exhibit | Impact Lab] Reference
Its breath came in short, rasping gasps. From Wordnik.com. [The Smile of God] Reference
Her voice trailed off in a kind of rasping whisper. From Wordnik.com. [The Ne'er-Do-Well] Reference
“Mrs. Stearne!” called the rasping voice of the Comte d’Orkancz. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
He must have a cold, because his voice was kind of rasping, and it helped. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
The jaws crunched shut, with a nerve-rasping grind. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
"Who be ye?" demanded the woman in a rasping voice. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference
She tiptoed quietly towards the rasping voice instead. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts] Reference
He reached it, his outstretched hand rasping across the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The name was called with great effort in a thin and rasping voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
He was saying something now in a low and rasping voice to the lawyer. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Suddenly a rasping whirr seemed to come from the ground at their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
These rasping human paradoxes are warrant for much bewildering thought. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
I went into the glade with a dry tongue rasping on the roof of my mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
"Strapdown check," said a Lhari with a yellowed crest and a rasping voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
We have a phonograph with a rasping voice that plays from morning to night. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
The floor was rough and sanded, and the rasping of feet almost drowned the music. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
And then he read slowly, in a firm, clear voice, with no longer any rasping tones. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
There was a rasping sound, like a heavy breather was bashing the bishop on the other end. From Wordnik.com. [Thing To Do In Deptford When You're Dead.] Reference
The voice was harsh and rasping; looking across the table, I saw the sneer upon his lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
Out in the fields, a corncrake raised its rasping vesper and a shepherd whistled on his dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
It was a pity her voice was so loud and rasping, but then not everyone is sensitive to voices. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
"Why don't you teach 'em yourself?" said Sampson, between the creakings and rasping of his saw. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
Mr. Talleyrand laughed, a high, rasping laugh, but evidently intended to be of great good humor. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
"I am coming," she called up in her rasping voice; and she did seem in high haste to get to Marie. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
Her laugh rings through the motel room, a low rasping laugh, bouncing off yellowed floral wallpaper. From Wordnik.com. [My Motel Week] Reference
He couldn't talk, unless they unhooked him from his ventilator and even then it was only a rasping few words. From Wordnik.com. [Joe's Last Deal] Reference
Close to them, in the crowd, they heard the sound of a soldier's lance rasping the pavement as he stood at rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
He rubbed his big fingers against the thick stubble of beard on his jaw and you could hear the rasping sound it made. From Wordnik.com. [A Place in the Sun] Reference
His petty face was all puckered up when Nannie encountered him, and his rasping voice was at its most irritating pitch. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
Occasionally, there would be a heavy, rasping sound, and the rear end of the boat would seem to settle down a few feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
A rasping of nails, harsher and, yes, unbelievable though it may seem, more heinous yet than has ever been executed, answered. From Wordnik.com. [A Disobedient Hand] Reference
For a few years, David Gray's soaring voice – with its rasping blend of gravel and honey – was the soundtrack to our lives. From Wordnik.com. [David Gray: 'I'm trained to wash up'] Reference
"Mother said I was to coax you into finishing it for to-morrow," she announced, a light mockery rasping under the melody of her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Sesma is commanding when he's shouting and rasping his way through a song, but sooner or later he defaults to the usual Broadway baritone. From Wordnik.com. [Positively Broadway] Reference
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