In the distance a tractor rumbled, and scratchy music wafted from speakers at a nearby Buddhist festival.
And scratchy blackout curtains shut out light from sash windows once framed by shimmering amber satin.
It is not my Barry White imitation, but it is still a little on the scratchy side.
He always courteously obliged them, though by the end his thin, scratchy voice came out in gasps.
His playing is a little scratchy and tentative, but just like before, it's clear this is no beginner.
In scratchy black-and-white drawings with text, Mr Spiegelman tells the story of his father's survival of the Holocaust.
There's the Simpsons House, Moe's Tavern, Itchy and Scratchy Land, the Schoolyard, Town Hall and even Mr Burns' Mansion.
And if you wake up the day of and feel a little scratchy?
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And relations between Mr Jibril and Mr Tarhouni, a professor who used to teach in Seattle, have been scratchy.
Now, Olympic organizers say it's fog and haze and not smog, but my scratchy throat tells me it's more than just fog.
Finally, no longer is there much truth in the image of Left-Bank fleapits with scratchy projection, tinny sound, and usherettes demanding tips.
When the shipment arrives sometime this month, Rohayu will swap the scratchy caress of claws for the patter of eight tiny, hairy feet.
Clips from the Tom and Jerry-satirising cartoon Itchy and Scratchy, from the Simpsons, are also used alongside role-playing in the Home Office-funded project.
But at least the government is not hobbled by the scratchy coalition politics that bedevils all attempts at reform in Germany and Italy.
Is sports radio now just a scratchy blast of haunting static?
"We are bit scratchy at present, but that's to be expected with the changes in players we've had to deal with, " Kear told the BBC's Super League Show.
None of his bandmates really knew how to play their instruments either, but his scratchy guitar style was a perfect match for Pylon's jagged rhythms and art-damaged dance beats.
Fraser Watts made a scratchy six from 28 balls before he edged RP Singh to give keeper Mahendra Dhoni a simple catch off the final ball of the eighth over.
And their hatred is vehement, like Itchy's for Scratchy, like the Hatfields' for the McCoys, and Taylor Swift's for every man who she has ever talked to since her 15th birthday.
Saturday's opener shouldn't present too many problems but as it is their first game the Lions will be pretty scratchy, so I expect plenty of dropped passes in the first half.
The dresses, the shoes, the pinkish smell of perfume, the scratchy darkness, all pushed against me like the side of a big cat, thrust themselves into my mouth and nose like fur.
Fans say high-tech microfibers offer better performance and more design options than their natural counterparts, and are nothing like the scratchy leisure suits of the past (think John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever).
But the disc is no downer: With a tender, scratchy voice that often cracks with emotion and a clear understanding of the vivid storytelling that defines folk music James commands attention effortlessly.
Brad Haddin and Ponting struggled for fluency with the bat in a scratchy 89-run partnership, while in the bowling department Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Tait, Steve Smith and Shane Watson could not find a consistent line.
The inconvenience of rejoining the itchy and scratchy show, has left me thinking about how our great plans for controlling and protecting the natural world can end up biting us in the most painful of places.
The two eldest of the three kids decide that the only sensible vehicle to purchase would be an ice cream truck filled to the top with Good Humor ice cream bars and, as an added option, comes with the happy song that streams from the scratchy PA system perched on the roof.
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