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1. It seemed to roughen the ends of her fingers
2. As Phil and Mac pumped and struck at the sharks, Louie groped for the provisions pocket and grabbed the patching kit, which contained sheets of patching material, a tube of glue, and sandpaper to roughen up the raft surface so the glue could adhere
3. It seemed to roughen the ends of her
1. Long bouts of hunger had roughened her
2. "Your pads are shined up, that's one problem—need to be roughened
3. Forrest cleared his throat, roughened his voice and contorted his face
4. those dirt stained but deeply scared ones of a labor roughened,
5. She rubbed my roughened hand, my finger devoid of the symbolic Love which Marcus had said belonged to his Mother
6. His roughened hands pushed the kalisari to my waist, freeing my breasts for everyone to see
7. Trevain put his finger on the glass, destroying the slow moving droplet and quickly tracing its path with his roughened skin
8. travel or the cold of winter had roughened the voice
9. What has roughened your temper?
10. " And taking up the hand which lay on the arm of his chair, he pointed to the roughened forefinger, a burn on the back, and two or three little hard spots on the palm
11. And from the sleeves of her red jacket looked out two large hands with knotty joints, the dust of barns, the potash of washing the grease of wools had so encrusted, roughened, hardened these that they seemed dirty, although they had been rinsed in clear water; and by dint of long service they remained half open, as if to bear humble witness for themselves of so much suffering endured
12. She saw that she was tired of the endless knitting And oh, she was so tired of the hospital! Tired and bored and nauseated with the and the endless bandage rolling and lint picking that roughened the cuticle of her nails
13. Pork scurried from the room as her voice roughened and Scarlett was left alone with bulged with saddle muscles
14. She looked more than her twenty-six years; hard living had roughened her; constant intercourse in a foreign tongue had worn away the nuances of speech; she straddled a little as she sat by the fire, and when she said, 'It's wonderful to be home,' it sounded to my ears like the grunt of an animal returning to its basket
15. These insults, poured forth in a voice roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth which lacked its two front teeth
16. "Ironic, isn't it?" she said, her voice roughened by emotion, "what womanhood means
17. The Hyperoodon bidens is destitute of true teeth in an efficient condition, but its palate is roughened, according to Lacepede, with small unequal, hard points of horn
18. She was staring straight before her with a stupid look of suffering, and Sara saw her suddenly draw the back of her roughened black hand across her eyes to rub away the tears which seemed to have surprised her by forcing their way from under her lids
1. roughening of the side of the sole caused by the friction of the edge of the pedal
