It was the Chancellor who spoke first, in his high rasping creak.

It was an unpleasant rasping noise that grew stronger minute by minute.

Montgomery looked up, for the voice was a loud and rasping one.

Another actor had had a tracheotomy and spoke in a rasping growl.

His finger passed over the shaded skin with a disagreeable, rasping sound.

I demanded, as that brazen voice came rasping through a second verse.

I jolted up with a rasping cry, my body alive with apprehension.

Maybe it's just the buckles, the bridles-maybe they've been rasping it sore.

He began with a rasping chuckle that gradually formed itself into words.

And he was busily and unconsciously rasping his fingers along his jaw.

Pavel made a rasping sound when he breathed, and he kept moaning.

His voice startled me, harsh and rasping like two bricks grating together.

Isabel tried to gasp, but succeeded only in producing a rasping wheeze.

Accompanying this sound was a loud, whistling breathing, and frequent rasping gasps.

Stephen O'Donnell then got in but his rasping drive was tipped over.

The Prince knocked, and a rasping woman's voice told him to enter.