I asked, seeing that not a single knot or roughness in the rope could prevent the strap that bound me from slipping to the bottom.
On the car decks the trains had been secured in place; and, because of the roughness of the weather, the wheels had been locked upon the tracks with additional chains as well as with the blocks and chains usually used.
To Alan, the marks of violence and roughness were unmistakably the work of the man with the big hands who had left marks upon the top of the chest of drawers; and the feeling that he had been in the house very recently was stronger than ever.
No roughness was shown, but the searching was done in a businesslike manner, and Stuart offered no resistance.
It was horrible to have to be affable and subservient; and even now when it crossed her mind she cried with pity for herself as she thought of the roughness of men and their brutal language.
One gives a turn to the cylinder, but any roughnessin its shape restricts the swiftness of its motion.
They must not witness his roughness and learn to despise their father--not for his sake but for their own.
If the beats are few in number they can be counted, because they give rise to separate and distinct sensations; but if they are numerous they blend so as to give roughness or dissonance to the interval.
The physiological effect of beats, though these may not be individually distinguishable, is to give roughness to the ear.
If harmonics or partial tones of prime tones coincide, there are no beats; if they do not coincide, the beats produced will give a character of roughnessto the interval.
The roughness or dissonance is most disagreeable with about 33 beats falling on the ear per second.
If any roughness is shown to the womenfolk," I said, "there will be one man who will fight.
But I had to ask his pardon for my roughness to him before I could feel content.
But long passages seem rather to revert to the roughness of Ennius than to approach the smooth and varied cadences of Virgil.
Horace indicates his sense of the roughness and barbarism of the metre, in the lines, Sic horridus ille Defluxit numerus Saturnius, et grave virus Munditiae pepulere[8].
But with all the occasional roughness of Lucretius there is much more life and force in his general movement.
It was about the middle of the day, and the veil of mist was hanging all round the hill, but there stood the Church, clear and bright, and alone in the sunshine, all the scaffold poles and unfinished roughness lost sight of in the distance.
An apparent roughnesswhich some would deem rudeness of manner.
The fastidious traveler, Mrs. Trollope, who thought the English system of church and state was ideal, saw in the United States only roughness and ignorance.
Instead of ourselves, let one of their most eloquent and warmest advocates defend them against the reproach of roughness and harshness.
The roughnessof the archaic foundations looked stronger and larger in scale for the refinement and certainty of the arcade.
For two years stress and struggle had tooled away every roughness and left the accomplished promise, a man wrought by circumstance to a great fineness.
With dismay she realized a certain coarsening of body and mind, a thickening of finger-joints, roughness of skin, an attenuation where milking had turned the plump flesh of her arms into gaunt muscle.
Foolery becomes roughness when it ain't agreeable to both parties.
Its smoothness or roughness enables us to form a pretty certain opinion; yet the bladder should always be carefully searched; and if the stone has been friable or broken in extraction, should be washed out by a current of water.
The rough woodcuts scattered through the work were drawn on wood by the author, and for theirroughness he, not his engraver, is responsible.
That always was his final conclusion, influenced, perhaps, by a hope that the roughness of winter would speedily convince "somebody" that roses and dreams of roses belonged to the summer.
Then and there she was ready to give it up and leave it to whoever might come after her and shape its roughness into a home.
They shook Roy into consciousness with joyous riot, pommelling him with affectionate roughnesstill he rose and joined with them stiffly.
This roughnesswould likewise enable him to detect the hidden presence of a marked card by the faintest scratching sound when he dealt.
The roughness and brutality of the poems had always chilled her, though she had felt vaguely their splendid pulse and swing.
Another cause is the roughness of the inside of a chimney, or projections which impede the passage of the smoke.
Trachea: The windpipe, so named (from a Greek word signifying rough) from the roughness or inequalities of the cartilages of which it is formed.
These words, with their roughness on the palate, are just as appropriate to express the ruggedness of the barrier which we were fronting, as they are unsuited to reflect the harmony of the giant in the east.
Everything was profaned by the roughness of violence.
This technique endeavors to subdue the natural roughness of man, at least as far as it manifests itself externally.
He looked at his best on horse-back, where his hardness and roughness appeared as necessary qualities, and his too great share of virility was used up in courage and will-power.
Her very tears desired his roughness to set them flowing.
She found a man's roughness preferable to women's velvet slaps, his most masterful demands less wearing than their silent criticism.
The surface of the lava is more thinly wooded and better grassed than the granite; but the roughness of the surface and scarcity of water rendered it less convenient travelling.
The surface of the plain is very stony, and the horses' feet were much injured by the roughness of the rock.
In these qualities, the New Zealand egg resembles that of the Apteryx; in the thickness and roughness of the egg of AEpyornis there is more similarity to those of the Ostrich and Cassowary.
The Lord sees our need of being exercised by roughness and hardness, not only that we may find the rest at the end sweeter, but also that we may be the more effectually trained and fitted for the place we are yet to occupy.
There would then be no tumultuous waves of the ocean, no cloud in the sky, no storm to brave, no roughness to endure.
The roughness of these walls was hidden by an outer casing of marble, ornamented with pilasters, of which only the small capitals now remain.
