It is a fertile country, yielding wheat and rice and sesame oil and clarified butter, cotton and the Indian cloths made therefrom, of the coarser sorts.

Paid servants do the coarser sort of work.

The mat was the trademark of a "sparrow," a prostitute with the coarsest sort of clientele.

Sunday wear for the men is a green tailcoat of some coarse sort of drugget, and usually a complete suit to match.

I suppose I am a pretty coarse sort of chap.

Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.

Its opponents described the act as "a Malthusian bill designed to force the poor to emigrate, to work for lower wages, to live on a coarser sort of food".

She had once been attractive, in a coarse, peep-show sort of way, but she had gone to fat, and her hips bounced like saddlebags on an overweight mare.

I mean, if anything of a coarse or unpalatable sort was left, the women could have it.