roughcast

Example Sentences

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A roughcast fireplace addition in Vienna, Ms. Robertson said, amounts to “a little bit of Scotland clinging to a Viennese cottage-style villa.”

From New York Times

The store had a high, sharp gable to the street, and showed its timbers through the roughcast of its wall, which was sprinkled with broken glass that glistened in the sun.

From Project Gutenberg

If we look at his native towardliness in the roughcast, without breeding, some nation or p. 6other may haply be better composed to a natural civility and right judgment than he. 

From Project Gutenberg

The wall between the garden and hemp-field was roughcast with lime and pebbles.

From Project Gutenberg

For he really looked, when well examined, like all the virtues done in roughcast.

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