Rolled

Examples

• There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr. Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Tears rolled silently down Rosamond's cheeks; she just pressed her handkerchief against them, and stood looking at the large vase on the mantel-piece. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Piani picked up Aymo's cap where it had rolled down the embankment and put it over his face. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Brian de Bois-Guilbert rolled on the field, encumbered with the stirrup, from which he was unable to draw his foot. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A weight rolled off her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His loose eyes rolled frightfully--not in terror, but in exultation. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The door closed, and the carriage rolled softly through the snow; and back returned the Countess, pensive and anxious. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Large tears trembled in her eyes and rolled down her cheeks. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Not before the eighteenth century do we find rolled sheet iron (1728) and rolled rods and bars (1783). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They projected so far, and they rolled about so loosely, that you wondered uneasily why they remained in their sockets. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His eyes rolled in his head; I was strangling him, I think. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I fear the kitten has rolled it away, said the tiny old lady, involuntarily continuing her beaver-like notes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This made such a very miserable piece of business of it, that I rolled myself up in a corner of the counterpane, and cried myself to sleep. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He further gave me leave to get into the inside, as the vehicle was empty: I entered, was shut in, and it rolled on its way. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I wish Glowry was choked with her Man of Sin and her Battle of Armageddon, cried the other, and the carriage rolled away over Putney Bridge. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Victor and vanquished rolled limp and lifeless upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Mr. Ben Allen's hat rolled down the steps immediately afterwards, and Mr. Ben Allen's body followed it directly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Earth, gray with age, shall hear the strain Which o’er her childhood rolled; For her the morning stars again Shall sing their song of old. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Occasionally an ember rolled off the bank, and dropped with a hiss into the pool. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A dozen dead and dying men rolled hither and thither upon the pitching deck, the living intermingled with the dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In spite of Rosamond's self-control a tear fell silently and rolled over her lips. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Instead of these articles being made of sheets of rolled copper and silver, a silver plate of any desired thickness is applied to the base metal by electricity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Considerable skill is required to do this, as all the joints and seams must be rolled down smooth and firm to ensure a solid boot or shoe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Did an elderly gentleman essay to stop the progress of the ball, it rolled between his legs or slipped between his fingers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The child lay panting on her pillows, as one exhausted,--the large clear eyes rolled up and fixed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Anselmo was already asleep in a corner, rolled in his blanket and his cape, not even his nose showing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The place in front was littered with straw where the vans had been laden and rolled off. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• St. Clare was a good deal affected at the sight of it; the little book had been rolled in a long strip of black crape, torn from the funeral weeds. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To the best of my belief, they were rolled up. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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