He looked very thin, was huskily bearded, and in a slim blue suit.
"I don't understand how you can be so hard," his mother wailed, huskily.
Henry said huskily, for his father's questions embarrassed him strangely.
Strangeways recovered himself with an effort, "No, no," he said huskily.
“Mr. Thornton,” she whispered, huskily, and could say no more.
"I will keep to my part of the compact, Jessie," he said, huskily.
"Alice Lee had better not be invited to the ball," he said, huskily.
"I am so thankful that it is no worse, Iris," he breathed, huskily.
"You would always be welcome to me, Iris," he said, huskily.
"You must remember that—that I have a father's feelings," he gasped then, huskily.
"hoarse," c.1722 in reference to a cattle disease (of persons, 1740), from husk on the notion of "dry as a husk." Earlier (1550s) "having husks." Sense of "tough and strong" (like corn husks) is first found 1869, American English. Related: Huskily; huskiness.
"Eskimo dog," 1852, Canadian English, earlier (1830) hoskey "an Eskimo," probably shortened variant of Ehuskemay (1743), itself a variant of Eskimo.
The moment any vessel is noticed steering for these islands [Whalefish Islands], the Esquimaux, or "Huskies,"* as the Danes customarily term them, come off in sufficient numbers to satisfy you that you are near the haunts of uncivilized men, and will afford sufficient information to guide any stranger to his anchorage. *"Husky" is their own term. I recollect the chorus to a song at Kamtchatka was "Husky, Husky." ["Last of the Arctic Voyages," London, 1855]
