"Roughened" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Governor introduced Archie as one of his dearest friends, and the hand Archie clasped was undeniably roughened by toil. Walker mumbled a "glad-to-see-ye," and lazily looked ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson
... tablecloth. He had entered joyously on his duties as patrol leader, but one disagreement after another with Tim had roughened his road. And now—now that he seemed powerless to stay this latest folly—he suddenly felt very, ...
— Don Strong, Patrol Leader • William Heyliger
... . Julio looked doubtfully and for a long time at the soldier before he could be convinced. That blind officer motionless on the bench, that figure of heroic grief, was Laurier! . . . At first glance, he appeared prematurely old with roughened and bronzed skin so furrowed with lines that they converged like rays around all the openings of his face. His hair was beginning to whiten on the temples and in the beard which covered his cheeks. He had lived twenty years in that one month. . . . At the same time he appeared younger, with ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... squire so near at hand. He was a tall man, over six feet high, and broad in proportion, and he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels. His eyebrows were very black, and moved readily, and this gave him a look of some temper, not bad, you would say, ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... of her head and devoted her entire attention to the trail which roughened and grew narrow on the other side of the town. Far away across the mountains lay ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand
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