The man clattered down the stairs, and Moran turned to his desk, from which he took some papers and a roll of money, which he stuffed into his pockets.
Yet they made grim faces when, all too soon, the retreat call from the barracks sounded, and away they would have to go on the double quick, to be at post by the time of roll call, and in bed at sound of taps.
Women hurried through noon chores to meet outside, and some in their eagerness forgot to rolldown their sleeves before they began to talk.
In a short time, I nudged Georgia, and asked her if I hadn't better roll him the little knot of dried apples that grandma had put in the basket for my lunch.
Third--That the head of each division shall keep a roll of all able-bodied men, and that he shall call out as many men each night as the engineer shall require of his division to stand on guard.
Before Charley could express his surprise, the little roll of clay was changed into a flower-pot.
The raindrops cannot go through this oil waterproof, but theyroll quickly off to the ground.
Then he would come back and catch the bottle again and roll the lumps about, and chatter and scold as he heard them rattle.
This section treats of the feast of Purim, and directs how the roll shall be written and read on this festival.
The Geladas roll down great stones, which the Hamadryas try to avoid, and then, both species, making a great uproar, rush furiously against each other.
They roll down stones or throw them at their enemies; nevertheless, they perform these various actions clumsily, and they are quite unable, as I have myself seen, to throw a stone with precision.
Grandpa left and grandmama put the skillet of meat in the bed with the baby and threw a big roll of cotton in the fire.
We didn't have many toys; maybe a doll made of a corn cob, with a dress made from scraps and a head made from a roll of scraps.
This tape is very desirable in small or proximal cavities where a roll or rope would catch on the margin and partially conceal the view.
Another old method: Take a piece of foil and roll it into a hard ball; then gradually work it into the cavity, being careful to have sufficient around the margin.
To make the most pliable cylinders, cut a strip of any desired width from a sheet of foil and roll it on a triangular broach, cutting it off at proper times, to make the cylinders of different sizes.
Still another suggested method: Roll a piece of foil into a loose ball, place it in the cavity, and pass a wedge-shaped plugger into its center.
As the door closed behind him, Gardiner rose from his stooping posture and came slowly toward me, a roll of papers in his hand.
Sir Thomas brought out from some secret place about him a tiny roll of paper wrapped in a quill, and while we stood about him looking over his shoulders, he laboriously added, letter by letter, three or four names.
They were attempting to roll one end of it over the side of another projecting log, but were continually foiled, because the other end was jammed fast.
I'll get you a gang of bully boys that will roll logs till there's skating in hell!
The crews set laboriously to work to pull and roll the logs out in such flat fashion that a head of water should send them out.
Towards Christmas he had become a fairly efficient cant-hook man, and was helping roll the great sticks of timber up the slanting skids.
As swamper he had more or less to do with a cant-hook in helping the teamsters roll the end of the log on the little "dray.
And he commanded them that were with him, saying: Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set careful men to keep them shut up: 10:19.
And he said: You have transgressed: rollhere to me now a great stone.
So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he spoke to him, upon the roll of a book.
And one rollof bread, a cake tempered with oil, a wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread, which is set in the sight of the Lord: 29:24.
Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.
And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to roll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the mouth of the well again.
And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
That is, I turn and roll about in my bed to seek for ease in my pain whilst the thorn of thy justice pierces my flesh, and sticks fast in me.
But those are all; a careful reading of the Issue Roll for all the years of Richard's reign has failed to turn up another entry which would indicate an interest in literature.
In the roll which contains this grant it is said to be conferred upon our beloved esquire.
Many entries in the Issue Roll of those years indicate that he was employed to carry money from the exchequer to de Burley, and to arrange for the fortification of Dover.
Roll him, roll him," shouted the crowd, which was continually growing.
Lay him with his stomach on the barrel androll him backwards and forwards.
Here are the nine thousand dollars," said the captain, drawing a rollof paper dollars from his pocket.
There was plenty of life in him; he could swim, tread the water, and turn and roll about in it.
But for the many poisonous vipers, how delightful it would have been to roll about there!
When Mark Tidd starts talking about duty you might as well lay down and roll over.
He dare not stop to look or think what he has done; he thrusts the last roll into his pocket and flies from the room.
But he drops the last roll and stops in his work aghast, for there is an awful sound from the bed.
The clanging of the band and the roll of the drum greeted your delighted ears the moment you entered the fairy arch, and you found yourself lost and bewildered in a sea of people you never saw before.
Then Nathalie had to go through the performance, and the roll was found to be correct.
The storm without was raging fast and furious; the blaze of the lightning filled the room with a lurid blue glare, the dull and ceaseless roll of the thunder was appalling, and the rain lashed the windows in torrents.
He'll have to strip off a few from his roll to pay for this.
Nothing," agreed Psmith, "except to make a noise like a hoop and roll away.
His only doubt will be whether to send his money to the bank or keep it in tubs and roll in it.
This time it was the governor accompanied by a gentleman in a black coat, who bowed to me on entering; he held a roll of papers in his hands, and had about him that false air of sorrow which we see amongst undertakers.
The roll of perforated ribbon is lifted off the keyboard and put in place on the casting-and setting-machine.
The harder the roll is set down on the bed plate, the shorter the fibre will be and vice versa, but if the roll is not put down hard, the stock has to be beaten so much longer.
The commons and extras are sold by the roll, and the standard number of yards to the roll of these fabrics is thirty-eight.
As he reads it he manipulates the keys precisely as does an operator on a typewriter, but each key as it is depressed, in place of writing a letter, punches certain round holes in the roll of paper.
The variety in the sizes of the pages of different books, the smallness of the editions, and the fact that the finer grades of paper, especially coated paper, cannot be obtained in roll form, are obstacles to be removed.
A roll of paper, which as the keyboard is operated continuously unwinds and is rewound, forms the actual means of communication between the two machines.
Yet this roll of paper is the informing spirit, as it were, of the machine.
From this couch roll the paper leaves the wire and is carried along on an endless woollen felt to the press rolls, which are made of hard rubber, steel, or brass.
Designs in relief on the surface of this roll produce the well-known marks called "water marks.
They heard nothing of theroll of drums, of the shrieks of the mob, of the dull crash of the knife, of the streams of blood, in the Place.
They would spend that night in the dungeon of the condamnes; the next day the lumbering roll of the tumbrels would announce to us that they were on their way to the Place de la Revolution.
First there was a yell and a roll of drums at the end by which I had entered.
Whereat she worked till her arm ached, and yet made little enough impression on the water, which, with every roll we took, swung ankle deep from side to side, and grew every minute.
You have allowed the ball of wool toroll from your lap on to the grass.
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Roll on, ye dark-brown years; ye bring no joy on your course!
Heavy they roll their fleecy world along, And the sky saddens with the gathered storm.
Auld Reikiel thou'rt the canty hole, A bield for mony a caldrife soul, What snugly at thine ingle loll, Baith warm and couth, While round they gar the bicker roll To weet their mouth.
And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky.
