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  • I creaked into my rough-dried crumpled shirt and trousers and left my face unshaven, my hair unbrushed and my tie untied, because lifting my arms up for those jobs was too much trouble.

    Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

  • I creaked into my rough-dried crumpled shirt and trousers and left my face unshaven, my hair unbrushed and my tie untied, because lifting my arms up for those jobs was too much trouble.

    Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

  • What is this limp, discolored rag which returns to me iron-moulded, blued until it is nearly black, rough-dried, starched in patches, with the fringe of red earth only more firmly fixed than before?

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • Kirkwood's clothing, now rough-dried and warped wretchedly out of shape, had been thrown carelessly on a transom near the door.

    The Black Bag Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • A corner of the room was crowded to the ceiling with valuable furs in their rough-dried state.

    The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • On a box in one corner stood a tin basin and a piece of yellow soap; a rough-dried towel hung from a nail in the roof, and a bucket of fresh water was near.

    The Durket Sperret, 1898

  • Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently rough-dried and starched.

    The Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • The process of being washed in the night air, and rough-dried in a closet, is as dangerous as it is peculiar.

    The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

  • The process of being washed in the night air, and rough-dried in a closet, is as dangerous as it is peculiar.

    The Pickwick papers 1836

  • I rough-dried it with a blowdryer, admiring the shine, appreciating the volume.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

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