rough-spoken

Historical Examples of rough-spoken

• Those dreadful, rough-spoken men, who had come to arrest Dick, would soon be arriving to take her away.

  The Scarlet Feather

  Houghton Townley

• One and all they were hard-boiled, used to the open, rough-spoken, and indifferent to Cheyenne's presence.

  Partners of Chance

  Henry Herbert Knibbs

• Then Clemantiny went back into the kitchen and cried—good, rough-spoken, tender-hearted Clemantiny sat down and cried.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Tenderly those rough handed, rough-spoken men raised the death-frozen little ones.

  Yorksher Puddin'

  John Hartley

• He was a boisterous, rough-spoken mortal, but his heart was big, and set in the right place.

  Raw Gold

  Bertrand W. Sinclair