"Roughen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to retard and roughen the otherwise smooth course of a family's musical evolution; but they are usually unable to arrest it. In general I think that such satires may fortify the elder generation in its conservative mistrust of classical music. But if they are only heard often enough ...
— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler
... more now," returned the Knight. "My voice, I perceive, begins to roughen, and brawls along more like a shallow brook, over pebbles, than the flow of a deep, equable stream, It were to shame ...
— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams |
