MONTREAL — Dried loofah, a fruit of the gourd family, is commonly used as a coarse, skin-scrubbing bath sponge.
As with artichoke leaves, the spicy flesh remained on our tongues as the coarse skin was drawn away and discarded.
Peel the cucumber lightly, so as to remove the coarse skin but leaving behind as much of the bright green that lies directly under the skin as possible.
When it's cool enough to handle, peel away the coarse skin and cut away any tough connective tissue on the underside.
His coarse skin seemed made of old leather upholstery, and, instead of lips, a small seam opened and disclosed his cement-colored teeth.
She remembered his hazel-gray eyes, the close-up view of his coarse skin, a circle like an old scar beside his nose, the slick breadth of his chest as he reared up from her.
William Manchester's 1968 book, "The Arms of Krupp," ends with a lurid image of "the first grim Aryan savage crouched in his garment of coarse skins, his crude javelin poised, tense and alert, cloaked by night and fog, ready; waiting; and waiting".
This proof of his independent, real existence was dismaying, because he'd come to seem a figment of her fantasy: in her memory, she had smoothed him out, forgetting that in his looks there was something unsettling and blatant — the thick lashes and coarse skin and big, sensuous mouth were in excess of any personality he'd shown her.
Stories of the couple's meeting, publicized on Xinhua.net, depict the glamorous starlet initially dismissing the future President as a xiang ba lao, a country bumpkin with coarse skin who wasn't much to look at, an impression that isn't entirely unfounded.
"What is the most serious obstacle faced by a man who wants to pass for a woman?" "Coarse skin".
However, this induction strategy induced a severe skin phenotype, exhibiting ichthyosis-like coarse skin and hair loss phenotypes.
