Mr. Saunders, who would sooner have died than have been seen dragging a roller through the streets, thanked him warmly.
I may have been a calendar, To tell some man the date; I may have been a railway car, A rocket or a shooting star, Or e'en a roller skate.
After this, the light rolleris again passed along the ridges, [to press the earth upon the seeds] and the work is finished.
It now occurs to me, that perhaps the light roller used in levelling the tops of the ridges may be set with teeth, and thus perform the additional office of making holes for the seed; and with vastly greater expedition than by dibbling.
These narrow ridges, as formed by the plough, are sharp; by passing a light roller over them, they are flattened to a breadth of 8 or 9 inches.
A light roller is then passed along the ridges,[6] in the middle of which the seed is dibbled, so that the plants may receive all the benefit which can be derived from the manure.
If you are troubled with the crown borer, root lice, leaf roller or rust, grow one crop and plow under, or move your fields a good distance from the old bed.
He would probably have carried a small quantity in a bottle, together with the pocket slab and rollerinvented by Mr. Galton.
A heavy bambooroller was next laid across the strands at the middle, passed carefully to one side, back again to the middle and then to the other edge.
In a field beyond, a small donkey was drawing a stone rollerthree feet long and one foot in diameter, firming the crests of narrow, sharp, recently formed ridges, two at a time.
Yes, and the steam rollermust have won," grinned Bob.
I watched Bishop and his wife rummaging their rooms in a spasm of panic, and finally saw them go off with the puling pill-roller to report the loss to the head warden.
The Griffin Mill is a centrifugal motion crusher with oneroller only, which, by an ingenious application of motive force, revolves in an opposite direction to its initial momentum, and which evolves a force of 6000 lb.
The central pier consists of five cylinders of cast iron, each 6 feet in diameter, filled with concrete, surmounted by a cast-iron ring or roller path.
He here introduced movable saddles to carry the chains on the top of the towers, with rollers running on perfectly flat and horizontal roller beds.
He also devised means, by levers and hydraulic presses, for relieving the rollers and roller beds from pressure, in the event of their requiring renewal.
Freddie said so, when he left; there was no reason to stay at Art's any more when most other bars would have the Roller Derby.
That was when Freddie half-shouted to Art to get the Roller Derby on Channel Seven and--so help me!
Garbed in the weirdly misfitting clothes of a waiter, holding aloft a loaded tray of dishes, he entered on roller skates, to halt before Baird with his uplifted tray at a precarious balance.
Swell reception at the Maison de Glue, with the waiters on roller skates in honour of rich Uncle Rollo Glue.
You other boys on the rollers, there--" Three other basely comic waiters on roller skates came to attention.
Roger and Helen together had given Grandfather Emerson a whole desk set, Roger hammering the metal and Helen providing and making up the pad and roller blotter and ink bottle.
I don't believe you've been on a roller coaster this year.
It would be fun to go," said Bettina, "although I haven't missed the roller coaster.
He was not playing with very great confidence, and my wife overheard one man in the gallery say to another: "Old Roller seems a bit nervous, doesn't he?
A kind of derelict road-roller stood at one side of the field, and as we passed this, walking pretty close together, a bullet whizzed between us.
The remains of a window blind and half its roller hung in the space left by the absent window, and mournfully tapped against the remnant of the framework in the light, cold breeze that was blowing in from outside.
A roller similar to that used by printers in making galley proofs is best adapted for use as a spreader.
The ink is applied by a roller to a glass plate upon which the fingers are inked before being rolled on the cards.
Its size is a matter determined by individual needs and preferences; however, a roller approximately 6 inches long and 2 inches in diameter has been found to be very satisfactory.
The water shoaled; my feet felt the bottom, and I stood up, but a roller laid me flat on my face.
At last roller after roller, following in quick succession, carried the little craft on their crests to the land, and packed her in a thicket of high reeds.
This process requires some little nicety, as each bag is made up of three distinct papers of different sizes and shapes, which have to be neatly adjusted round a roller one upon another.
Whilst in our first dejection, I thought I saw a place where a flat roller would remedy the whole misfortune; but a flat roller at Cape Spartivento, hard, easily unshipped, running freely!
He pampered his beloved machines with roller bearings and bodies of steel.
To ride on the roller himself does not occur to him.
Another way is to put on the color evenly with either a sponge or a brush and to rotate the rotary cylinder rubber roller graining tool upon it and blend quickly.
The projecting parts of the disks are brushed over with distemper color and the roller revolved over such parts of the work where the operator desires to show weather checks, which are so often seen in oak.
Included in as stippling must be added the check roller work, as this may be done in such a way as to replace the stippling done with the flogger for certain woods, in the graining of some peculiar specimen of quartered oak especially.
This fan overgrainer is laid upon the face of the checkroller flat, and a few turns are given in order to spread, when it is ready to do its duty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
