"I'm tired of only being with women I pay for," he admitted, his voice still scratchy.

I'm going first," the one with the scratchy voice said.

"Don't keep anything hidden from me again," warned the scratchy voice.

"I doubt you can," Emma said in a scratchy voice.

His voice, high and scratchy to start with, rises even higher.

"No, it's over here," said a high, scratchy voice out of the darkness.

"Walk him back," the rider said in a deep scratchy voice.

"They are right," he said with his faint, scratchy voice.

It took four or five rings before a scratchy female voice crackled through the box.

A hoarse or scratchy voice that does not go away.