Example Sentences

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This turf covered a lawn unroughened by plant or weed; but over it at majestic intervals grew clumps of gray pines and dim-blue, ever wintry firs.

From The Mettle of the Pasture by Allen, James Lane

No more net-mending for her: for the sake of unroughened hands she had to leave that to Christian and the elders.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

As it disappears it simply fades, and does not at all change its tint as that of measles does, and it leaves the skin unroughened.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

What impressed her most were the inflections of his quiet, musical voice—a voice as unroughened and as gentle as when it wooed her in her father's Northern Castle years before!

From Brooke's Daughter A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed; his cheeks were pads, and the unroughened hand which lay helpless upon the khaki-colored blanket was slightly puffy.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair