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He said also: "He rough-hews everything he handles, including his neighbours 'nerves; he has no mercy or pity or consideration for anyone serving him, and yet he's the kindest heart towards children and animals, and the good he does to them is about the only thing he don't brag about."
Elizabeth Visits America Elinor Glyn 1903
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For battles and revolutions and historical events of any sort are the jagged instruments with which Fate rough-hews our lives, leaving us to shape them as we will.
Barlasch of the Guard Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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My consultation somewhat rough-hews the matter, and considers it lightly by the first face it presents: the stress and main of the business I have been wont to refer to heaven;
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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My consultation somewhat rough-hews the matter, and considers it lightly by the first face it presents: the stress and main of the business I have been wont to refer to heaven;
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 16 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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