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In her 65 years, life's rough-handed ways have taught her considerable caution.
Suspicious stranger visits a rural tacos al vapor stand 2008
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In her 65 years, life's rough-handed ways have taught her considerable caution.
Suspicious stranger visits a rural tacos al vapor stand 2008
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But with the announcement of the firings on Friday, he said the local officials '"rude and rough-handed solutions" in dealing with local issues had caused the riot, according to Xinhua.
Chinese Bloggers Score a Victory Against the Government 2008
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But with the announcement of the firings on Friday, he said the local officials '"rude and rough-handed solutions" in dealing with local issues had caused the riot, according to Xinhua.
Chinese Bloggers Score a Victory Against the Government 2008
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Kansas attorney a friend and neighbor Dennis Hawver says he'll sue Bush after being rough-handed, evicted and assaulted while lying on the ground in front of the Topeka Expocentre last November.
Kansas candidate says he'll sue Bush after arrest last November. Michael Caddell 2007
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And to avoid the rough-handed maid's "caresses" to her head, she let down her hair and washed it first, pinning it up atop her head, wet, when she was finished.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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In fact he didn't take offence at his blowups and rough-handed manner because he figured he was well paid for it all.
Vagabond of Space Ernsting, Walter 1976
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Standing there in the evening twilight, on the rough brick walk in front of the Palace Hotel, to that group of rough-handed men in unkempt locks and woolen shirts and overalls, to those shirt-sleeved, well-oiled, red-faced bar-keepers, with the landlord in the center, the passenger told his story.
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher
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Every genuine people, however, is rough-handed; and Willkomm proceeds, after an ingenuous description of their defects, to vindicate the natural heart of his brother highlanders.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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His grandmother had brought up the child, and his silent, rough-handed uncle had adopted him, and worked for him, as if he were his own.
A Loose End and Other Stories S. Elizabeth Hall
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