Despite reducing his voice to a rasp in recent years, it had not robbed him of his spirit.

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Other important woodworking tools include the ax, the hammer, the plane, the brace, the awl, the router, the rasp.

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The simian face belongs to Marlon Brando, who was to utter just one line in a Super Bowl ad--"Bud-weis-er, " delivered in a Godfatherish rasp.

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Jeezy's hyper-extended rasp remains to him, "yeah" is a four-syllable word and his in-house production team continues to refine its grandiose synth beats (think Vangelis with a fetish for trunk-rattling bass).

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Controllers had been trying to get an ice sample into TEGA for weeks but struggled with a scraper and rasp on the probe's robotic arm -- items designed to grind the ice for study -- Boynton said.

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The sports car look of the cabin is almost entirely achieved by the seats, but that feel is so reinforced by the firmer ride, the rasp of the exhaust and the quick reflexes of the engine and suspension that you can't help but think you're really in a posh rocket sled.

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