On every page her habitual iambic pentameter, slightly roughened for variety's sake, builds to passages of great lyrical purity.

The bone was cold and damp, slightly roughened by exposure to the damp.

The trunk is buttressed at the base and has mainly smooth, or slightly roughened, dark brown bark.

Thus, a flight of stairs consisting of treads 1 millimeter high and 3 millimeters deep would seem merely a slightly roughened ramp to a six-foot man.

Just the slightly roughened wall and the rough stone from which it rose.

Sir Elton's robust voice has roughened slightly, and he has begun to use scratchy notes strategically like Ray Charles.

Conidia are in divergent chains, ellipsoid to fusiform in shape, and smooth walled to slightly roughened.

When she continued, her voice was roughened slightly and lower, but steady as it had been before.

Spores are spherical or nearly so, smooth to slightly roughened, amyloid, and measure 4.5-5.5 by 4-5 μm.

Spores: Black, slightly roughened, 12 - 15(17) x 7 - 8.5(10) micrometers, elliptic, rugose or verrucose.