Those who admire smooth finishes and those who like the character of a rougher grain could take their pick.

He stumbled up against a building, breathing deeply, feeling the rough grain of its wood press against his side.

And her denim skirt rasped as her buttocks rubbed against the rough grain of a column.

All were frozen, their motion suspended, the horror of the situation oddly aestheticized by the rough grain of the medium.

On strict regime I was supposed to get a pound of rough grain a day but I received less.

But when Suchee ran her fingertips over the rough grain, she shook her head again.

She stared at the desk for some time, as though probing every fissure in its rough grain, and finally resumed.

But when one quarter of the smooth sand was replaced by rough grains, the strange density patterns in the flow reappeared.

But no, he distinctly felt the rough grain of the wood.

The vacant eyes returned to tracing the rough grain of the floorboards as the thief somersaulted the words over in his head: "Winning is beauty.