raspingly

It was a dirty neglected place, with a sullen unwashed man at the door, who called raspingly to his wife within.

Roving East and Roving West 1903

If I could script one scene for Celebrity Rehab, it would feature a scarecrow-haired addict falling to her knees in the white hallway of the Pasadena Recovery Center and crying out — raspingly, chthonically, her voice not her own — Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Dr. Drew?

Retching With the Stars 2009

If I could script one scene for Celebrity Rehab, it would feature a scarecrow-haired addict falling to her knees in the white hallway of the Pasadena Recovery Center and crying out — raspingly, chthonically, her voice not her own — Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Dr. Drew?

Retching With the Stars 2009

The outstanding performances come from David Yelland as the King – general-like, raspingly crisp and terminally disappointed – and Desmond Barrit as Falstaff.

This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review 2011

Front man James Hetfield is sober these days and has a ridiculous beard, but is otherwise as angry and raspingly incomprehensible as ever.

The excellence of Tree-Stock 2007

Front man James Hetfield is sober these days and has a ridiculous beard, but is otherwise as angry and raspingly incomprehensible as ever.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

As it was, she extricated herself from her mingled impulse to deny and question, and said, almost raspingly:

Sister Carrie 2004

On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.

The Great Gatsby 2003

Sergei growls raspingly; pressing his expanded chest against the pole.

Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

He cleared his throat raspingly, clawed at his whiskers and smiled his nervous timid smile.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996