Ben said, the words rasping in his dry throat.

She cleared her throat, but the words rasped nonetheless: "My name is Genevieve."

So many words rasped his tender throat and he broke into a fit of coughing.

The words rasped from too long a silence; a difficult emotion was waiting within him.

He was so close that his words rasped against the skin of her lips.

His words rasped low and hot and sharp along the back of her ear.

Arla's words were rasping as if her throat were bone dry.

"Nasty words," Chaney rasped, in a voice worn down by a 68-year diatribe against idiocies.

Blade asked, his words rasping like sandpaper on metal.

The words rasped in his dry throat.