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  • 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.

    Babbit 2004

  • Indeed, if she had made some of the dainty lace she was exhibiting, a piece of which was even now entangled about her, she needs must keep both hands unroughened.

    The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar Margaret Penrose

  • 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.

    Babbitt 1922

  • 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.

    Chapter 1 1922

  • 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.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Geoffrey Kingscott, Editor Language Monthly Language As a Source of Conflict In the Terror which followed the French Revolution, the hated aristocrats, whatever their disguise, could usually be distinguished from honest toilers because their hands were unroughened by manual labor.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4 1988

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