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1619 P. Hannay Two Elegies ii. sig. C4^v The Brewer in his cart, The Sculler, Carman, and..rudely caru'd clownes.

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xx. cccvi. 314 She saw her rudely-blustering servants, who Disturb'd her Region, in one Calm united.

1780 H. Croft Love & Madness xxvii. 58 Who dar'd your rudely painted limbs oppose To steel of Chalybs, and to Roman foes.

1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 339/1 The rudely-chiselled forms of several colossal figures.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vi. 45 With overhanging gables and balconies of rudely-carved oak.

1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 441 Then the son of Peleus deposited a rudely-molten mass of iron.

1868 L. H. Morgan Amer. Beaver & his Wks. iii. 103 On the upper margin..small sticks were used, together with loam, intermixed with fine roots, for the purpose of arresting the 'flow of the water through the rudely-arranged materials of the dam.

1910 L. Hearn Glimpses Unfamiliar Japan 2nd Ser. i. 15 In one place I see a stone with an English name upon it, and above that name a rudely chiselled cross.

1928 J. A. Hammerton Mem. Bks. & Places vi. 110 As it sits there, in the midst of a rudely ordered graveyard, the church is certainly a pleasant sight.

1969 G. L. Remnant Catal. Misericords in Great Brit. 50 Rudely carved figure of a man and a donkey embracing.

2000 J. S. Graham Puritan Family Life iv. 87 It is equally likely that many rudely made children's chairs also landed on the woodpile.