This is more solitary than solitude, and tired as I am with riding and roughing it, I must console myself with writing to you.
The other protested that he liked nothing better than roughing it, and how awfully jolly it was to run against Lamont again.
A very credible and interesting biography of Mark Twain might be compiled from his own works; and Roughing it is full of autobiography of a coloured sort, though in the main correct.
Travellers who could find no copy of the Bible in the street bookstalls of Paris, were confronted everywhere with copies of 'Roughing It'.
The thought of the inviting look of the white-covered bed upstairs lay like a balm on the spirits of men not born to roughing it.
There was general roughing along this mile and a half of street which could have been stopped at any time in fifteen minutes by closing the streets.
Their appearance wiped the smile away, and when they began really roughing I heard the first murmurings of the snarl which only an infuriated mob can produce.
And during the long winter months they are prone to collect in little knots and talk much of camps, fishing, hunting and "roughing it.
How thoroughly I entered into Frau von Walden's honestly-expressed dislike to "roughing it"!
For roughing tools temper need not be drawn except for work where the edge tends to crumble on account of being too hard.
They are also recommended for hard wood knives, for roughing and finishing bronze and brass, and for hot bolt forging dies.
Another cause, which is very often overlooked, is due to the case being ground off one side of cam more than the other and is caused by the roughing master cam being slightly different from the finishing master cam.
Tom Sawyer has ranked in popularity with Roughing It.
A lifetime spent inroughing it hasn't robbed you of inherent chivalry.
THE IRON BOYS ON THE ORE BOATS; Or, Roughing It on the Great Lakes.
Only The Innocents Abroad, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Roughing It still ranged ahead of it, in the order named.
At the period when the greatest portion of "Roughing it in the Bush" was written, I was totally ignorant of life in Canada, as it existed in the towns and villages.
In our work of "Roughing it in the Bush," I endeavoured to draw a picture of Canadian life, as I found it twenty years ago, in the Backwoods.
In "Roughing it in the Bush," I gave an honest personal statement of facts.
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Mrs. Moodie Author of "Roughing it in the Bush," &c.
But in times of war, and in distant lands, soldiers lay their account with roughing it.
The masterpiece of the first is The Jumping Frog, of the second The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and of the third Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It.
He had small taste for roughing it and little sympathy with the typical California life of the times.
All this and the hundreds of pages like it in The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It and the later books is excellent drollery, but had Mark Twain written nothing else than this he would be as dead now as an author as even "Doesticks.
The public that bought such enormous editions of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It bought them as books to laugh over.
The man I want for a "bunkie" is the one who can be comfortable while the best of them are roughing it.
He believes that "roughing it" is synonymous with hardship, and in season and out of season he plays the Spartan.
In the next letter and the one following it we get a hint of an episode, or rather of two incidents which he combined into an episode in Roughing It.
One such is recorded in Roughing It, the trip to Mono Lake.
In Roughing It we find the story of that first lecture and its success.
Higbie (Cal), to whom 'Roughing It' would one day be dedicated.
In Roughing It we are told that the miner eagerly accepted the proposition to come to Virginia City, but the letters tell a different story.
In Roughing It, and elsewhere, has been told the story of this venture--the tale of its splendid success.
Relations with the Call ceased before the end of the year, though not in the manner described in Roughing It.
It was the time of The Flour Sack Sanitary Fund, the story of which he has told in Roughing It.
Mark Twain, in Roughing It, has described that glorious journey and the frontier life that followed it.
Here was a man who had never seen England, roughing it and fighting for her out here, side by side with us, the home-born; and he only one of many.
Such roughing can be kept up for a week or two, but it is not a real economy of means to make it permanent.
We especially felt the lack of the flies for the tents in roughing it.
I could not help saying to Peter that a sportsman in this country who was not afraid of roughing it a little, might actually accumulate wealth.
My dear Jack," he added, "it's the roughing it that is the great drawback.
He gives a most vivid account of all the roughing they have under gone.
But in spite of all our roughing we have enjoyed it, and very glad we went.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
