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Updated: June 20, 2025
Their paddles were of the very roughest description, consisting simply of split branches of trees, with wider pieces tied on at one end with the sinews of birds or beasts."
The countess, still unconvinced, refused to obey this order; but the count, the dowager, and all the family entreated her so earnestly that she gave way. They put her in a close carriage, and drove her a whole day over ploughed fields, by the roughest and hardest roads.
The days of the early pioneers, of the men who did the hardest and roughest work, were over; farms were being laid out and towns were growing up among the felled forests from which the game and the Indians had alike been driven. There was still plenty of room for the rude cabin and stump-dotted clearing of the ordinary frontier settler, the wood-chopper and game hunter.
Aspromonte, the roughest corner of Italy, is no place for misunderstandings; the knife decides promptly who is right or wrong, and only two weeks ago I was warned not to cross the district without a carbineer on either side of me. But to have clothed my thoughts in words during his gracious mood would have been supremely unethical.
I have calculated that in making such a journey the ant does what is equivalent to a man's pedestrian tour from New York City to the Adirondacks by the roughest route, and all for a smack of wild honey! But the ant makes his long excursion with neither alpenstock nor luncheon, and without sleeping or even resting on the way.
Nan was a Scotchwoman, not young, and with a temper which, never good, became worse as she grew older. She had seen life's roughest side, and had always been a hard-working woman. Her husband was a carpenter, but she made his house so uncomfortable, that for years he had followed the sea.
I believe that more souls are convinced in real prayer, than in speaking. I have noticed this many a time. I have seen at the bottom of a great hall or theatre, or in the gallery, a lot of the roughest men conceivable, behaving in the most unseemly manner, arrested by the influence of prayer.
"Well, would he pick out the roughest part of the country all among the rocks, like you have, or the lower and more even way like mine?" "You are right and I'm wrong, Serge," cried Marcus, frankly. "Let's go your way." The old soldier nodded, the order was given, and the driver turned his horses' heads more to the right; but before they had gone far Marcus caught his companion by the arm.
"On the whole they're the roughest lot I've ever seen cooped up together. If they should be turned loose, they would make a shambles of this ship a red shambles, Kate!" There was not a trace of color in her face. She watched him with a horrified fascination. "Of course," he went on easily, "I'll be the first one to go down. Harrigan would see to that.
The chances are a thousand to one in favor of it, as this is one of the roughest countries in the world." "A thousand to one is good enough for me," said Will, stretching himself luxuriously on the ground.
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