Befo' my legs give out, I cotch fish and killed birds and went to log rollings and corn-shuckings.
Corn-shuckings and log-rollings was common in dem days.
Signora Pasotti read the words, and then began a most complicated pantomime: shakings of the head, rollings of the eyes, sighs, imploring glances towards the ceiling.
Georgie and Alice, Ernest's two children, were evidently quite as one family with the others, and called Mr and Mrs Rollings uncle and aunt.
They knew nothing about Mr and Mrs Rollings being paid so much a week to look after them.
Jack was the eldest boy, now nearly twelve, a sturdy little fellow, the image of what Mr Rollings must have been at his age.
Mr Rollings was not sorry to assent to this, and I believe it is now many years since the coastguard people have suspected any of the Rollings family as offenders against the revenue law.
He began when about thirteen going with old Rollings and Jack in the barge from Rochester to the upper Thames with bricks; then his father bought him and Jack barges of their own, and then he bought them both ships, and then steamers.
When the offing was sufficient sheets were slacked off and we headed down the coast on a broad reach, making good speed in spite of heavy rollings in the wrench of the quartering seas.
Mrs. Rollings popped on the potatoes for Miss Pinnegar's dinner, and spread the cloth for Ciccio.
Do you mind heating the blanket while Mrs. Rollings makes thin gruel?
Miss Pinnegar, her face stained carmine by the fire, was helping Mrs. Rollingswith the dinner.
During the course of the morning Mrs. Rollings came up and said that the Italian from last week had come, and could he speak to Miss Houghton.
Mrs. Rollings had told her it was the Italian, who had come in in his shirt-sleeves and gone out in his black coat and black hat, taking his bicycle, without saying a word.
At that moment Miss Pinnegar came in to say Mrs. Rollings had seen another of the young men riding down the street.
Mrs. Rollings would not appear till later in the day.
For two days she lay in bed, attended by Mrs. Rollings and Alvina and the young men.
With Mrs. Rollings she called at the chemist's back door, and then they hurried through the sleet to the widow's dwelling.
Mrs. Rollings asked Geoffrey to fill the coal-scuttles and carry one upstairs.
Do you think you might go across with Mrs. Rollings and see how this woman is, Alvina?
I expected to find you radiant over winning Rollings Reliable prize.
What will he think when he hears I've written a story to advertise Rollings Reliable?
After the first rollings of the thunder, the wind would doubtless break forth and the tree be violently shaken.
At one moment he thought he heard distant rumblings, dull and threatening like the rollings of thunder.
Night withdrew to the eastern edges of the heavens; the sky to the zenith was a glistening orange, blurred with shadowy up-rollings of smoke, along the city's crest the torn flame ribbons playing like northern lights.
The country slept under the stars, gray rollings of hills and black blotches of trees, very still in its somber repose.
In the first place, the detectives of the Bankers' Association found out positively that Rollings had gone aboard, and that the yacht had then got under way at once.
Clutching tightly at the box as an aid to his own drowning, Frank Rollings let himself go beneath the surface.
One of the deputies now guarded Rollings and Captain Blake, while the other had gone below to the engine room.
Illustration: Rollings Sank to the Deck in a Huddled Heap.
You've told me, too, that Frank Rollings is aboard of her, and that he has the stolen funds with him.
There was not time for anyone to reach Rollings ere that crafty, unbalanced wretch, clutching desperately at the iron box, bounded to the rail, stood there tottering for an instant, and then leaped far out into the water.
Frank Rollingswas afterwards tried, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years' confinement, which he is now serving.
During the night, in fact, the wind went down quite noticeably, if they compared it to what it had been till then, and the ship was less tossed by those violent rollings which had threatened to break her in pieces.
Distant lightnings began to rend the sky and low rollings of thunder grumbled in the depths of the heavens.
One of the joys of a life 'on der rollings deeps'!
Hurrah for a life on der oceans vafe und a ship on der rollings deeps!
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