| 1. | From the first blush of dawn until the closing of the twilight, the clatter of the hammer and the rasp of the saw was never absent from the monument which the immigrants erected to Him who had led them safe through many dangers. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | _The disc rasps gratingly against the needle. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | Outside a shuttered pub a bunch of loiterers listen to a tale which their brokensnouted gaffer rasps out with raucous humour. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |