Deep night hath come down on this rough-spoken world. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference
Surely her father was not a rough-spoken man like this!. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
Those dreadful, rough-spoken men, who had come to arrest. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
"If I must choose one or the other, I prefer a rough-spoken soldier to a smooth-spoken courtier.". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Who was the rough-spoken man who had come to his rescue by perhaps dealing the detective a death-blow?. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference
But some of the Senators, who liked and pitied the rough-spoken, but warm-hearted and honest old man, persuaded. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Both are high-school-dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life. From Wordnik.com. [In Rough Country] Reference
To old-guard, Protestant Cincinnati, Barney Kroger, for all his money, was still a rough-spoken farm boy who got his start selling cabbages from a horse-drawn cart. From Wordnik.com. [The Cincinnati Grocer's Kid] Reference
And so, in 1826, she had made her choice, and had become the bride of the rough-spoken, domineering Scotsman who had to face the world with nothing but his creative brain and his stubborn independence. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
"Oh, she'll carry all of us that's alive," returned the same rough-spoken seaman. From Wordnik.com. [Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman] Reference
One and all they were hard-boiled, used to the open, rough-spoken, and indifferent to. From Wordnik.com. [Partners of Chance] Reference
He was a boisterous, rough-spoken mortal, but his heart was big, and set in the right place. From Wordnik.com. [Raw Gold A Novel] Reference
Od, he was the man for sorting them, and the queerest rough-spoken deevil too that ever ye heard! '. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
Od, he was the man for sorting them, and the queerest rough-spoken deevil too that ever ye heard!. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XLV] Reference
Then Clemantiny went back into the kitchen and cried -- good, rough-spoken, tender-hearted Clemantiny sat down and cried. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903] Reference
But Karl was rough-spoken, and passionate -- not with me, but with the others -- and I shrank from him in a way which, I fear, gave him pain. From Wordnik.com. [Curious, if True Strange Tales] Reference
Bold as a petty provincial attorney, sharp, rough-spoken, and curt as he was, he felt as captains feel before the decisive battle of a campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Pons] Reference
He was a genuine sailor, always rough-spoken and cynical, whether he was in good or bad humor; his expression froze Indiana's blood with terror. From Wordnik.com. [Indiana] Reference
To be good friends with you, my rough-spoken, overbearing sir, it was verily requisite that you should have treated me with a little more civility. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck] Reference
Bellingham, however, appeared to have taken a fancy to his rough-spoken neighbour, and made his advances in such a way that he could hardly be repulsed without absolute brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp]
So, too, when with the sword Excalibur of human sympathy you shear down thro 'the helm and harness of some rough-spoken man who seems to hate all human kind, you find the soul of a woman and the heart of a little child. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12] Reference
The baron enjoys the well-deserved reputation of being the most phenomenally rude and rough-spoken man in the German army, and was at one time colonel in command of the hussar regiment in which William, prior to becoming emperor, received his cavalry training. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]
To another discomfited Brother, Jeanne, exasperated, answered with a little roughness, showing that our Maid, though gentle as a child to all gentle souls, was no piece of subdued perfection, but a woman of the fields, and lately much in the company of rough-spoken men. From Wordnik.com. [Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death] Reference
Stealing along by back streets -- running with his head bent down -- his little heart panting with dread of being pointed out as his mother's child -- so he used to come back, and run trembling to Sally, who would hush him up to her breast with many a rough-spoken word of pity and sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth] Reference
He related to her many little particulars connected with him which all tended to place his character in a most amiable light, and as her ear drank in the words of commendation of him she loved, what sweeter music could there be to her than the voice of that old weather-beaten rough-spoken man. From Wordnik.com. [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1] Reference
Maybe they are rough-spoken and aren't really parlor-broke, but you can depend on 'em to do something when there's anything to do! ". From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
A fancy to his rough-spoken neighbour, and made his advances in such a way that he could hardly be repulsed without absolute brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
From that time Mary Thorne was dear to the tenantry of Greshamsbury; and specially dear to one small household, where a rough-spoken father of a family was often heard to declare, that for Miss Mary Thorne he’d face man or magistrate, duke or devil. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
Od, he was the man for sorting them, and the queerest rough-spoken deevil too that ever ye heard!’. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering] Reference
"When I first saw you, you were a rough-spoken fellow; but now you use the language of a polished gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer] Reference
"It is true," said his honour, as I thought rather grudgingly, "this rough-spoken young man was the one who frustrated the attempt on me yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798] Reference
On one of these occasions, he brought the animal back reeking; when Tommy Mitcheson, the bank horse-keeper, a rough-spoken fellow, exclaimed to him: “Set such fellows as you on horseback, and you’ll soon ride to the De’il.”. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
He'd a name for being rough-spoken. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Am I rough-spoken?. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Robust, rough-spoken, gentle-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Songs, Merry and Sad] Reference
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