Rolls

Examples

• The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Had there been presses, they would have had to stand idle while the papyrus rolls were slowly made. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Suppose that some one rolls a ball to a child; he catches it and rolls it back, and the game goes on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The giant rolls consist of a pair of iron cylinders of massive size and weight, with removable wearing plates having irregular surfaces formed by projecting knobs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This machine, see Fig. 168, receives the dough at A, where it is coated with flour and flattened into a sheet between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In operation the material passed first through the upper and middle rolls, and then between the middle and lowest rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The articles to be ironed are placed in proper position upon a table and carried under and in contact with the rolls. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In other words, it was the kinetic energy of the rolls that crumbled up the rocks with pile-driver effect. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To the faces of these rolls were bolted a series of heavy, chilled-iron plates containing a number of projecting knobs two inches high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was a two-year-old Rolls-Royce town car camouflaged for the use of the General Staff but Anselmo did not know that. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The space between these two rolls allowed pieces of rock measuring less than fourteen inches to descend to other smaller rolls placed below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It has ball-bearing type bar joints, giving accurate alignment and light key action, the platen rolls to show the work, and the carriage locks at the end of the line, protecting the writing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These latter rolls were also face-lined with chilled-iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one-half-inch size, or smaller. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1784 Henry Cort of England introduced the puddling process and grooved rolls. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This covered broadly the combination of the cutting cylinders, and rolls for holding the boards against the cutting cylinders, and also means for tongueing and grooving at one operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Had I nothing about me I could offer in exchange for one of these rolls? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A tall, bony colored woman now entered the kitchen, bearing on her head a basket of rusks and hot rolls. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Here the material was automatically delivered to the giant rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These papers are fed from rolls, as printing paper is fed to a newspaper press. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Talk until he rolls a hand grenade under that blanket and blows this all up. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Three-high rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the time of Julius C?sar the larger of the famous libraries of Alexandria, containing, i t is computed, some 490,000 rolls, caught fire from ships burning in the harbor, and perished. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is then worked into sheets or mats between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The giant rolls were two solid cylinders, six feet in diameter and five feet long, made of cast iron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In Fig. 2 the rolls are illustrated diagrammatically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the two end-pieces of a heavy iron frame were set three rolls, or cylinders--one in the centre, another below, and the other above--all three being in a vertical line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The wire is first passed through a series of rapidly revolving, straightening rolls which take out all twists and kinks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Editor: Ozzie