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  • s  of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing

  • As president of Batten, Barton, Durstine Osborn, genial, roughhewn Bernard Cornelius Duffy, 55, is a rare figure in the advertising world.
  • As Noah, with a full grey beard and wearing a coarse beige tunic, he was striding up and down the gangplank of the $300,000 ark made of roughhewn logs.
  • Although Scott wrote about other states, he wrote best of familiar, roughhewn private places like Haverhill, Mass.
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  • David Esbjornson in Boston Globe
    Arthur is one of those guys: powerful intellectually and politically, roughhewn in a way, yet sophisticated, too,says Esbjornson. "He had that generosity in him. The security in his own work allowed him to be generous."

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