Yet the initial judgment of the American people did not differ essentially from the opinion which had been more coarsely expressed by the leading English newspaper.
The 'yellow ground' had to be smashed up with picks so that it could be coarsely sieved in large wire frames, and the resulting large pieces removed by buckets to be further sieved and scraped.
There! This was better. She was at the top now and could see the lands about her as successive sweeps of open country, cold under the moon, coarsely patched and seamed with thin rows and heavy clumps of trees.
She ground out words between her closed teeth. He could not hear what she said; but the look in her eyes interpreted it to be a curse, — if not as coarsely worded, as fell in intent as ever was uttered.