gruff , also: gruffy old use

The voice on the other end was deep and gruff.

I had to get quite gruff with him before he'd go away.

We had all heard the gruff voice in the dark.

The voice was the same gruff one I had heard the night before.

This came from a gruff voice in the back sat.

He will be gruff, but he'll here you want to go.

He talked on for hours in that gruff voice of his.

I've seen Gruff twice in the space of a few weeks.

We told him to appear gruff, then come around quickly.

He started to put his hands in the air, but the man's gruff voice stopped him.

"At least let us drive him out of the town," said a third gruff voice.

The voice at the other end of the line was gruff with sleep.

From the front came gruff conversation; someone looked back at him.

A man with a gruff voice answered the next number.

He was kind to them but always in a gruff manner.

I turned to the voice, which now was familiar and no longer gruff.

He stared up at the gruff old man who was so kind to him.

There is the gruff cook who might have killed a man.

A gruff voice called from an open hatch behind him.

Others in the industry describe him as serious, even gruff.

In a gruff voice, he asks how long she has been there.

The tones of a gruff voice came from the other end.

He made a small, gruff sound that might have been a laugh.

So Gruff, to me, is a link between the past and the future.

"Put up your hands," a gruff voice said behind him.