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Then he asked the room, in a voice roughened from sleep, what time it was.

Remember, we do not want to allow the surface to be come roughened.

His voice began to roughen once more, growing tighter by the second.

His voice roughened as he said, "Who did this to you?"

There was no hot food when the seas roughened up.

And the long months of hard work at Tara had roughened her hands until they were far from pretty.

He turned blazing eyes on her and his voice suddenly roughened.

One would not wish even a common slave to cut her feet or roughen them.

The difficulty of what he had to say roughened his tone.

His very hair seemed to sparkle as he roughened it.

Here was roughened stone that offered firm hold for hands and feet.

The water roughened, for the lake was swept by wind.

If you roughen up the wood a bit, the paint will cover it better.

She said a few things out loud, roughening her voice until it sounded true.

As the trees thickened, the ground roughened, he followed the water.

When she continued, her voice was roughened slightly and lower, but steady as it had been before.

"What a day's work," he said in a voice roughened by exhaustion.

The surface had been carefully roughened to keep it from shining.

His face, roughened by exposure to sun and wind, was plain.

Then, moving down, he began to roughen the tight skin on the backs of his hands.

He roughened his language: "Get off my back, will you?

It was made of local limestone, not marble, and roughened by weather.

A strange tenderness had entered his voice, and roughened it.

She felt her skin roughening, and forced blood into the capillaries.

"You're a morning person, then," he said, his voice roughening with arousal.