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  • There is neither positive truth nor positive untruth; life is not so coarse-fibred as that.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • Great trees, amorous birds, frail insects, perceive the subtle influence of the season, and shall not coarse-fibred man rejoice, though there be little or nothing to which he may point as special evidence of inspiration?

    Tropic Days 2003

  • The impoverished hostess may preside at her frugal board with the spirit and the manner of a queen, whereas the coarse-fibred vulgarian vainly heaps his platters with choicest game and rarest fruit, the while he serves the banquet like the churl that he is.

    Etiquette Agnes H. Morton

  • Mrs. Peckham was from the West, raised on Indian corn and pork, which give a fuller outline and a more humid temperament, but may perhaps be thought to render people a little coarse-fibred.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

  • One coarse-fibred brute, indeed, once went so far as to address to her the frightful words, '' Urry up, there, Tottie!

    The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

  • The desire to do the fitting thing is innate in man, and it struck Bill, as he hurried through his toilet, that he must be a shallow, coarse-fibred sort of person, lacking in the finer feelings, not to have passed a sleepless night.

    Uneasy Money 1928

  • Even as he had described her physically she overpowered the senses; she was coarse-fibred, over-coloured, rank.

    Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

  • The coarse-fibred, pugnacious, and self-seeking would, I had become sure, always carry too many guns for the refined and kindly.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

  • With the quick, instinctive sizing-up developed on the athletic field, Bob thought him coarse-fibred, jolly, a little obtuse, but strong -- very strong with the strength of competent effectiveness.

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • It is making no excessive or invidious claim for it to assert that, after one has truly savored its quality, other music, transcendent though it may demonstrably be, seems a little coarse-fibred, a little otiose, a little -- as Jules Laforgue might have said -- _quotidienne_.

    Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score Lawrence Gilman 1908

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