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Coarseness and savagery are the inevitable results.
Chapter 14 2010
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Coarseness and violence, cruelty and fatalism, are relieved with flashes of emotion and kindness ... profoundly moving.
Sea of Poppies: Summary and book reviews of Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. 2008
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Coarseness, vularity and brutality seem so goarm in arm with the dumbing down of Americans.
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Coarseness actually gives the songs some historical authenticity in what was, after all, a rough-and-ready age - Dowland was born a year before Shakespeare.
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Coarseness actually gives the songs some historical authenticity in what was, after all, a rough-and-ready age - Dowland was born a year before Shakespeare.
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Coarseness actually gives the songs some historical authenticity in what was, after all, a rough-and-ready age - Dowland was born a year before Shakespeare.
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= Roughness and Coarseness = of the skin, when not depending on any particular disease, may be removed or greatly lessened by daily friction with mild unguents or oil, or by moistening the parts, night and morning, with a weak solution of bichloride of mercury containing
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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-- Coarseness and fineness of texture in nature indicate coarse and fine-grained feelings and characters, and since black signifies power, and red ardor, therefore coarse black hair and skin signify great power of character of some kind, along with considerable tendency to the sensual; yet fine black hair and skin indicate strength of character, along with purity and goodness.
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Coarseness of thought naturally brought on coarseness of action.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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Reply Obj. 1: Coarseness of attire has not of itself the appearance of evil, indeed it has more the appearance of good, namely of the contempt of worldly glory.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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