There were no fancy high-count sheets or plush duvets, but the bedding wasn't scratchy or thin, either. |
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Skipping over the scratchy part, she began to sing with the record, her voice throaty, a low rasp. |
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My parents also flinched when I put on my scratchy gramophone records of German symphonies, and prepared for complaints from the neighbours. |
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The only copy I had of the album was an old tattered cassette I recorded from my college radio station's scratchy vinyl copy. |
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I've heard guys in New York who sound just like Charlie Parker, but it's like a scratchy record of Parker. |
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He was inspired to try his hand at poetry in high school, when he bought a scratchy Dylan Thomas record at a garage sale. |
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Medicine was hard, and he should work at it hard instead of fooling about learning to dance or listening to opera on scratchy expensive records. |
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This new collection manages to refresh some scratchy old records, but also to bring home the inherent power of the blues to entertain. |
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When he started preproduction for the project, he scoured music shops around New York, buying every scratchy old record he could find. |
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They gave him a scratchy 78 rpm vinyl recording of a train and dynamite explosions in a stone quarry. |
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I tried to get a number for Gallo through a record company that released some scratchy, self-indulgent folk albums of his. |
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His linework was scratchy, his modelling often stiff, and his eye for perspective shaky. |
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Her vague, scratchy, grayish images look kind of like piles of bent wire already, and they might be more interesting in three dimensions. |
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Below the word, which ran across the chest, was a fashionably scratchy picture of what he presumed was meant to be a tennis racquet. |
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It was the bringer of the gray shade, the darker part of him coming to life in a shady drawing of scratchy stick figures. |
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While Galambos' black and white pen drawings at times seem a little scratchy and lacking in polish, he has a nice sense of design. |
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He works in a scratchy, unpolished drawing style that looks like something put down in haste right after the event. |
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When the works were viewed side by side, de Kooning's brushwork really did look like a blowup of Soutine's scratchy strokes. |
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His scratchy pen portraits might focus on children but this volume is strictly adults only. |
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Hope's rather scratchy sketch shows the western end of the gallery with two Greek Doric columns framing a view of the organ. |
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The artist likes to float between scratchy, airy paintings and thicker, impasto works, such as in some of the paintings of cows. |
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Pope has a scratchy, dark drawing style that tosses characters and objects together in an impressionistic jumble. |
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Did he ever pay a similar tribute to Smith's scratchy writings, or study his famous map? |
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A driver in a good mood is statistically less likely to be involved in an accident than one who's feeling scratchy and irritable. |
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Though the present is beautifully wrapped with bows and ribbons and shiny paper it is filled with a scratchy sweater with reindeer on the front. |
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Nothing made sense but the darkness behind her eyes and the scratchy cotton of the sheets beneath her skin. |
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After a few seconds of scratchy bliss, I noticed an annoying tickly itch on my shin. |
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The carpet felt scratchy beneath my blistered feet, so I tiptoed all the way to the door. |
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The lead singer has traded his toneless, dark singing style for a scratchy, emotive whisper, and the band's sound is more open and melodic. |
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Bridget was riding her bicycle on the sidewalk when the silver-haired old man called out to her in his sweet but scratchy, strangely dusty voice. |
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Some undesired effects could be a scratchy throat, coughing, or a tight feeling in the throat. |
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She laughed at how persistent he was, and quickly slid out of her scratchy and stiff nightgown that she had lived in for the past week. |
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A scratchy burst of static warns me that an announcement is about to burst in, unheralded, on my loud speaker. |
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According to my own unscientific survey, the average woman prefers a man who simply smells good and is free of scratchy stubble. |
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Throat lozenges with menthol, a local anesthetic, can temporarily relieve a raw, scratchy sore throat. |
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And the button-down variety always felt like they'd been dipped in starch, stiff and scratchy. |
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Most of the scratchy lines and squiggles visible here are the green patina of oxidized bronze, not a part of the original coin as cast. |
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Unfortunately for him, he only had a small notepad and a rather scratchy fountain pen. |
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Its coals fade to black shortly after it starts, but then a scratchy calliope whirs to life, taking it out on a wistful, black and white note. |
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One afternoon we passed over some abandoned terraces, their earth encrusted and overgrown with scratchy, sunburned weeds. |
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If you grow long finger nails on the hand that fingers the chords, your chord changes will sound awkward, scratchy, sketchy, boring and muted. |
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There was a barely noticeable thump, and then a scratchy sort of noise as a peg landed on the ground. |
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It soon began appearing on video in both scratchy black and white and colourized versions from nearly every public domain house around. |
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Rob does not look like an especially gifted athlete, with a tight, almost pigeon-toed walk and a scratchy running action. |
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To stave off colds, she should combine it with aconite at the first sign of a scratchy throat or a congested feeling in the head. |
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Getting the closest shave possible means less irritatingly scratchy stubble later in the day. |
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A plastic sheet was folded on top, enclosing me in a warm, slightly scratchy cocoon. |
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This cold refuses to give up and is hounding my heels and head with sniffles, scratchy throat, a croaky voice and explosive sinus pain. |
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If you dig scratchy lead guitars and appreciate real good Hard Rock, that has come through a lot of neo-influences, then this album is for you. |
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His early albums were scratchy affairs, recorded using just a boombox with a cheap built-in microphone. |
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Perhaps they enjoy hearing me sound all ratty and scratchy, trying to be polite in the name of friendship. |
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They are blessed with youthful effervescence, a decent front man and scratchy lead guitar. |
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His voice surged for a moment but it was scratchy, his throat was very dry. |
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We heard news, music, and conversations from the provincial capital over a scratchy, long-wave frequency. |
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Nerves were taut and bodies turned and twisted under the scratchy blankets. |
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I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor. |
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The scratchy blankets were tucked around her, and Robert was spooned behind her against the wall. |
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The good news is that today's sexy lingerie is no longer uncomfortable, scratchy and unpractical. |
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She rolled over on her thin pallet, on the bottom bunk, pulling her scratchy military-issue blanket tighter around her. |
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The salt water he had used to clean off the worst of the gunk made his clothing stiff and scratchy. |
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Rose's fingers were numb from the cold, white with sharply marked red tips, and they stung bitterly as she dug them into his scratchy coat. |
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Nicole embraced Kim tightly, the mesh sleeves of her black shirt scratchy against Kim's arms. |
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Her regularly soft voice is scratchy, disclosing the unspoken knowledge of sleepless nights and drowsy days. |
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The singer's scratchy voice and world-weary acoustic songs are nastily refreshing, and his lyrics are positively bewitching. |
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It was a really long song, and his singing voice was scratchy and cracked every few seconds. |
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Music and lights and laughter, scratchy laughter that even in its ugliness sounded happier than mine. |
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His scratchy voice was meant to sing blues, though, and he'd sound like he was singing the blues no matter what type of music he's singing. |
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You could tell because his voice is very scratchy from all the smoking he did in his youth. |
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The songs on the album were all scratchy, new-wavey and sounded like they had been recorded in an upturned tin bath. |
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When I was a kid in the fifties, the whole of our primary school would gather on the lawn while a bugle played off a scratchy record and the Head read the obligatory poem. |
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The creature's voice was very breathy but deep and scratchy. |
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He winced, still recalling her scratchy laughter and screeching voice. |
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While I sat up all night in fear of a cracker-nibbling rat, trying to watch TV and ignore the ludicrously loud scratchy noises, I was contemplating my happiness. |
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The reporter, in his scratchy voice, asked her to retell her story. |
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She hands me the cell phone and a small, scratchy voice apologizes but says that after a trip to the doctor and a chance to revive, she will see me at her home. |
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The collection of new work seems to follow that same artistic idea, with lots of small models and scratchy sketches all contributing towards one central theme. |
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His magnificent scratchy drawing skills are in global demand. |
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His voice was coarse and scratchy, filled with malice and hunger. |
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McKean's scratchy, angular drawings, reminiscent of Victorian etchings, add an ominous edge that helps ensure this book will be a real bedtime-buster. |
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It would stop for a moment, and then I'd begin to say something and I'd get that tickly scratchy feeling in my throat and I'd fight it but then I'd start coughing again. |
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Silent Partners make pop music to dance to with scratchy wah-wah and rousing choruses slightly at odds with the Dermo's Discharge T-shirt and patched-up post-punk jacket. |
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A former gospel choirgirl, Staton cultivated her scratchy moan during her years at Muscle Shoals by intentionally singing herself hoarse every night. |
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We had a few scratchy records, a disco deck, a microphone, a small transmitter and a desire in our hearts to try to create something that people would be proud of. |
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Cochran had come down with some nasty throat bug and his voice was low and scratchy, but that only made it better. |
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Is that scratchy rug atop her head really meant to be Kate's famously silken locks? |
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Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet. |
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Last year, she had a chance to meet Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, 16 years after seeing that scratchy video in Beijing. |
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He jumped at the sound, his heart leaping into his throat until he realized that the scratchy call was coming from the tiny communicator attached to his vest. |
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I was recording the analog noise between tracks on a scratchy old copy of Karl Muck conducting Parzifal with the Bayreuth Festival Chorus onto a cassette tape. |
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Scotland had their victory, a scratchy affair but a victory all the same. |
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Over and over he plays a scratchy recording of the sparrow's call. |
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Thoughtless musical parasites nearly brought the entire record industry to its knees by recording scratchy vinyl or crackly medium wave onto hissy cassettes. |
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Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian? |
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She disappeared for a moment, reappearing with scratchy woollen blankets. |
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Begin with a few scratchy sketches and then move to the canvas. |
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The skirt was made of a scratchy woollen mohair beneath a satin bodice. |
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The chasm is not a peaceful picturesque place, but a reminder of nature's power, which is emphasized by the scratchy crosshatching of the drawing. |
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Andy and I sat on the edge of the dock, dangling our legs into the water with the rough, scratchy boards underneath us and the sun blazing down from above. |
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Scared out of my wits, dressed all in shimmering white fabric and scratchy yet beautiful white lace, I felt all alone in the foreign country of England. |
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The rough prison blanket had felt scratchy through his regulation pyjamas. |
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He had rotten teeth, clumpy, nasty hair, and scratchy long fingernails. |
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She's going to be a scratchy, hairy traveller, she complains bitterly. |
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Avoid wearing clothes made out of scratchy materials like wool. |
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It started with a few scratchy 45s that an aunt had bestowed on me as an alternative to throwing the precious platters in the direction of a Blue Peter bring-and-buy sale. |
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Until reintroduced by the CJB, we had to scrounge in Salvation Army Stores and junk shops searching for scratchy old copies of original recordings. |
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She would have given anything to get out of her painful tan heels, white knee-length dress, and scratchy light brown hat and put on some torn jeans and tennis shoes. |
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Ask your child's doctor about ways to treat the symptoms that are making your child uncomfortable, such as a stuffy nose or scratchy throat, without the use of antibiotics. |
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The rebels said so, in their scratchy broadcasts from across the border. |
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The sand that a moment ago felt almost soft as you rubbed it between your fingers now feels rough and scrabbly and scratchy against your belly. |
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From an aperture on the work's top, a band of a different white, marked by a scratchy, textured craquelure, runs down toward the base like drool. |
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Rudolph and Stella laugh hysterically as I sing along in a scratchy, whiny Chipmunk voice. |
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With a scratchy throat and a cough, it feels like I'm coming down with a cold. |
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The front cover depicts an aeroplane, drawn in Emin's scratchy monoprint style. |
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But we dig fall, too, as we say hello to scratchy wool sweaters and thick socks, cool drizzly nights, and bourbon and branch water by the fire. |
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For a spider snacker, the piercing hairs would mean a scratchy meal. |
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We also hear a piano roll of Debussy playing part of La cathedrals engloulie, and a very scratchy recording of him accompanying Mary Garden in Il pleure dans ma coeur. |
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Some of the animation seems quite scratchy, but that doesn't detract much from what must be described as one of the best platformers on the Xbox right now. |
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