1 Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton was still new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude.
2 But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself.
3 It was an era that suited her, crude, garish, showy, full of over-dressed women, over-furnished houses, too many jewels, too many horses, too much food, too much whisky.
4 Her ambitions were not as crude as Mrs. Bart's.
5 She would not indeed have cared to marry a man who was merely rich: she was secretly ashamed of her mother's crude passion for money.
6 Of the ladies, this left only Mrs. Dorset unaccounted for, and Mrs. Dorset never came down till luncheon: her doctors, she averred, had forbidden her to expose herself to the crude air of the morning.
7 The crude forms in which her friends took their pleasure included a loud enjoyment of such complications: the zest of surprising destiny in the act of playing a practical joke.
8 She lay awake viewing her situation in the crude light which Rosedale's visit had shed on it.
9 The crude reds and greens and blues of that coloured glass held us there.
10 She was a woman who could not be taught, it is said, though she had a crude natural force which carried with people whose feelings were accessible and whose taste was not squeamish.
11 It was an elemental odor, raw and crude; it was rich, almost rancid, sensual, and strong.
12 This crude arrangement he bound over the youth's head, tying the ends in a queer knot at the back of the neck.
13 She took her chair and looked through the smoke at a crude glass painting of a cow in a stable; also at a cock and a hen.
14 And their queer, crude life seemed as unnatural as that of hedgehogs.
15 'At least I'm not a slave to somebody else's idea of me: and the somebody else a servant of my husband's,' she retorted at last, in crude anger.