As Cecchi took us down a flight of rickety steps into his sweltering basement workshop, it was hard not to stare at his rough hands.

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One victim, who was only five years old at the time, told the High Court in Edinburgh that Marshall's rough hands had given him away.

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But Blair's case for inclusion would not have been helped by his rough treatment at the hands of Phillips.

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His hands are rough and wide, with big bony fingers and chewed nails.

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Once I found Mother there with hands stained black-red, a rough globe dyed into the front of her jumper.

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Expropriation brought into its hands about one-third of the urban space in the national-capital region (a rough square around Ottawa-Hull).

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