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The linen was coarse, the plating worn from the forks and spoons through constant use, the dishes thick and clumsy and well nicked.— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
It's a shame The cap'n burst into a laugh that aunt Belinda privately thought coarse, and turned back into the house, while she joined a group of matrons and went away home, discoursing volubly Cap'n Oliver stopped for a minute at the window in the empty parlor, watching their departing bulk, and then went into the hall, where the tread of many invading feet had left the moist autumn soil, with bits of grass and now and then a yellowed leaf Letty!"— Country Neighbors
The comments aimed to be witty, but were generally gross, coarse, and obscene.— Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
In the High Street a crowd of loafers--coarse women and soldiers off duty--was gathered in front of an iron triangle where, it was understood, some prisoners were to be flogged.— The Northern Iron
You cannot make your physical body coarse, and organise the astral and mental bodies for the finer purposes of the man; and you must settle that in your minds if you wish to try to develop these higher powers of consciousness.— London Lectures of 1907

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