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Examples
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She looked down into the pit at four roughly-made caskets of greenish wood.
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It consisted of a roughly-made cross with an ancient tailcoat hung on the arms of the cross, such a coat as a scarecrow might wear.
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My table, the gray walls, my roughly-made sofa, everything to the tiniest grain of dust seemed to have grown younger and more cheerful in the presence of this new, young, beautiful, and dissolute creature, who had a most subtle perfume about her.
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He stumbled to his feet, and ran back to the site of the old Gate-terminus, a roughly-made arch of stone.
The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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They're very roughly-made, and this implies a very big amount of water to fill the terraces, etc.
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His vigorous pursuit kept the enemy busy, but eventually they pulled him up in front of a roughly-made sangar.
The Kangaroo Marines R. W. Campbell
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Negros, whilst in every other sugar-producing province roughly-made vertical cattle-mills of wood, or stone (wood in the south and stone in the north), as introduced by the Chinese, are still in use.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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This house was a small wayside inn, situated where a miners 'trail crossed the emigrant route; a roughly-made, two-story, frame building, with a corral adjoining; at which mule pack-trains stopped overnight, when carrying supplies from Sacramento and Marysville for miners working the gold placer diggings along the American and Yuba rivers.
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The cargo was packed in the middle of the boat, and near the stern was a roughly-made awning, composed of mats and dirty-looking cloth, which had been erected for the comfort of Ping Wang's invalids.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Two men, half-breeds, were sitting on a roughly-made bench outside the store, smoking and talking.
A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns
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