From deep inside he could hear the rumble of his ancient upright piano as it rolled ponderously from room to room.
The moon fell on the garden and rolled ponderously along, crooning When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day.
As we watched it the fog-wreaths came crawling round both corners of the house and rolled slowly into one dense bank, on which the upper floor and the roof floated like a strange ship upon a shadowy sea.
With a last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet pawing furiously, and then fell limp upon its side.
Some blankets rolled in a waterproof lay upon that very stone slab upon which Neolithic man had once slumbered.
Yes, Conseil; but, instead of being rolledfrom right to left, this olive turns from left to right.
Of their eight tentacles, six were elongated, and stretched out floating on the water, whilst the other two, rolled up flat, were spread to the wing like a light sail.
My glass, fallen from his hands, hadrolled at his feet.
Mimi and Betsy rolled from one side of the back seat and back to the other.
When he rolled up the man's ragged sleeves to give him a hypodermic to quiet his raving, he saw the man's arms were tattooed!
They were so sound asleep when Dit had come in that she rolled them over to make room for herself without waking either.
Quickly Miss Bassett rolled her in a blanket and lifting this frailest of the Preps in her arms she carried her to the car.
When the weather grew warm enough the yard was rolled into an open shed, and they could run out of doors.
August, Katie and Robbie to start violently, while poor Tommy, with his hands to his eyes, rolledover on the floor with a groan.
The box was built on castors, and could be rolled from window to window, and thus kept in the sunlight, in which the little creatures reveled; and at night it could be pushed near the stove.
Dorval helped the girl in and took his seat beside her; the driver cracked his whip; the coach rolled away.
When I arrived to take my lesson, I used to find him rolled up in his blankets, with a great woollen night-cap on his head, which reached to his eyes.
As she listened to his quavering tones the dusty tombstones of dead years seemed rolled away, and all their simple joys and griefs to live again, not quite as of yore, but transfigured by some solemn pathos.
Without, the air was hot, heavy and oppressive; squadrons of dark clouds had rolled up rapidly from the rim of the horizon, and threatened each instant to shake heaven and earth with their artillery.
And his eyes lit up terribly again and rolled like fiery wheels.
It was not the etiquette of the Pale to kiss one's betrothed bride, but Srul stared dully at Biela without even touching her hand, as if the Atlantic already rolled again between them.
The Messenians, hoping to keep this place of refuge, kept a sharp lookout, and, whenever the Spartans made any attempt to climb the rocks, they rolled great blocks of stone down upon them.
The rocks rolledand crashed down upon them; and the soldiers, filled with dread, beat a hasty retreat, and never again dared venture into this valley.
From time to time a hot wind, the simoom, blew over the desert, raising great clouds of dust, and choking men and horses as it rolled over them like a torrent, burying them under its shifting waves.
Cynthia rolled lazily on to her side and pulled a box of chocolates from the shelf beside her.
In great clots and coils itrolled upwards, spreading as it thinned, till it was a pall of vapour that sheeted all the lemon-coloured sky.
The roots are sometimes so uniformly eaten off by these white grubs that the sod may be rolled up like a roll of carpet.
The tears rolled down their poor old faces as they said good-bye to her, not knowing if they would live to see her return.
Child, you're wonderin' to zee old Pewings here again, but He have rolled away my mountain!
She herself was not herself; her head, that used to be held so erect, now rolled or sank upon the pillow; the sparkle was all extinguished from those bright, dear eyes.
Her head drooped on her breast; great tears rolled silently down her cheeks; her arms fell to her sides; she shivered again and sighed.
And the cry came too late; the volley was fired, the crash of sound thrilled across the words that bade them pause, the heavy smoke rolled out upon the air, the death that was doomed was dealt.
A little later the water gushed above the sand, and, gathering in a frail rippling edge of foam, rolled up and broke upon the rock.
The tide of war has rolled on and left it a blackened waste, a smoking ruin, wherein not so much as a mouse may creep or a bird may nestle.
And see here, Miss Peggy," he rolled up his sleeve, that of the left arm.
That same night the sea-fog rolled up thick and white.
Time had rolled back the curtain of centuries; ancient cemeteries had yielded up their dead; and living ghosts of the ages packed all the gay cafés.
The young singer, his cheeks glowing and his eyes blazing, modestly rolled up his music and sought his seat.
There were some in affluent circumstances, who rolled along voluptuously in cabs on an expenditure of thirty-five francs, holding their precious tableaux and luxuriantly smoking cigarettes.
When the cold iron touched him he roared like a maddened bull, and rolled quivering and moaning upon the floor.
Flames would suddenly burst from clefts in the rocks, and thunder rolled through the caverns.
Some of the pictures were so large that they were brought in rolled up.
I heard the easy roll of the carriage, the grating of the wheels on the gravel, the sharp pull-up at the main entrance, the impatient pawing of the animals on the hard and well-rolled road.
And a groan at last, like a peal of thunder, As the huge old portals rolled asunder, And gravely from the castle hall Paced forth the white-robed seneschal.
In each of these, one of you is rolled up and fully discussed.
Three weeks, however, rolled by and they received no news.
In one of these bowers, the most remote from the sea of those discovered by Captain Grey, was a heap of the stones of some fruit that evidently had been rolled therein.
I sat there till the dinner hour, watching the soft pink and white vapors that rolled round the verge of the horizon.
The leveler, being the hindmost man, rolled over this fence just as a heavy bowlder, hurled by Luke, struck the top rail.
A whole year had rolled round and it was June again, with the air full of rumors about the building of a railroad through Jimtown.
As he did so a tear, a great bitter drop, rolled down his haggard cheek.
There were very nice and very old families living there then, and they kept themselves rolled up in their wealth and comfort, and looked coldly down on all new and pretentious people.
Weeks passed and still the old ship tumbled and rolled about on the placid waters of the Pacific, now touching at a port to get news of the whaling fleet, now anchoring off some island to have a talk or trade with the natives.
But he declared it was all owing to the sea getting tipsy, the compasses getting tipsy, the chronometers getting tipsy, and the sun keeping himself rolledup in a blanket.
At the beginning of the siege the canvases had been rolled up, put into packing-cases and carried away to warehouses from which he never succeeded in unearthing them.
At ten o’clock Nanette, the maid, rolledinto the dining-room an iron bedstead for M.
But this cruelty is now an ancient thing, polished by the centuries, rolled smooth like a pebble with all its points blunted.
But his thoughts were still so little under control that he rolled his bloodshot eyes, gnashed his teeth and clenched his fists, until he drove his nails into his palms.
The carriage rolled briskly through the long streets into the smoky down-town district.
As the train rolled out of the depot and the long reaches of the fields succeeded Jennie studied them wistfully.
When the belief of a resurrection began to be spread abroad, what would have been easier for Pharisees and rulers than to have gone to the sepulchre and rolled back the stone, and said, 'Look there!
And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
Before the earthquake and the angelic descent, before the stone was rolled away, while the guards perhaps slept, and before Love and Sorrow had awakened, Christ rose.
Enough for us to draw the lessons that are suggested by that quiet figure sitting there in the inner vestibule of the grave, the stone rolled away and the work done, gazing on the tomb where the Lord of men and angels had lain.
Brockman put the freight engine crew on the rack, and they say there was a small boulder on the track--that it rolled down the canyon slope just ahead of them as they were turning a curve.
VIII With the Strings Off As soon as we returned from the inspection trip, the boss pulled off his coat--figuratively speaking--and rolled up his sleeves.
The deep phalanx rolled onward to the chant of the paean, and the despairing mercenaries knew that they could expect no quarter.
A caldron rolled down into the gap, followed by another and another, scattering their blazing contents as they came.
It dashed against their wall of steel, recoiled, and rolled on again, in successive waves, continually strengthened from the rear as fresh squadrons crossed the stream.
His long blade hissed downward as he spoke, and the ugly round head rolled in the dirt.
The prince fell from his horse and rolled beneath the flying hoofs.
It rolled over his prostrate form and came to rest.
In the old days even the first-born of the royal blood had been lifted in those blackened arms and rolled upon the iron knees to be roasted alive.
The hearts of the Greeks in the mercenary camp on the heights across the river tightened as the deep-toned chorus rolled up to them and for a time they avoided looking into each other's eyes.
This is better than Granicus," he panted, as the man rolledupon the ground.
Nathan worked hard at the oars, while Chares rolled the body of Clearchus on his knees.
As the aged priest ceased reading and rolled up the parchment, Alexander drew closer to the magic knot and examined it, while the others fell back in a wide circle.
His eyes rolledup in his head and he lay motionless.
Picking his way between them, he advanced to the end of the cellar, where he gave the lamp to Joel while he rolled aside one of the jars.
As it rose and swelled, it filled the plain and rolled back in echoes from the mountain sides.
Alexander gave the word to the Companions to place themselves at the head of this enormous wedge, and then, with a shout that rolled far across the plain, it hurled itself against the Persian line.
Fat rascals," he chuckled, touching their dark cheeks, pretending to be frightened as they pounded soft fists against the iron side of the ship orrolled unregarded in the scuppers.
Bear sort of jumped at him, then rolled over, clawing.
Well, I--" Just then Tom Poppins rolled jovially up to the couch.
He felt very uneasy, like a man left naked on the street by robbers, as he rolled up his coat for a pillow and removed his shoes in a place that was perfectly open to the street.
Dave Dawson groaned, rolled over on his side, and gave his English born pal an exasperated glare.
Eventually the time for Dave and Freddy to take off rolled around.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rolled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
