The recollection of the rouleau of gold, offered to the bailiffs by the young girl, occurred to Rodolph.
Dollar by dollar the bet was raised till at last Rouleau joyously gathered his last chips, raised the bet once more by the limit, exclaiming, as he did so, "Alas!
Rouleau took from his pocket a roll of bills and counted them.
Once more Rouleau raised the bet to the limit, when Mr. Sims refused, and left the game to him and the lieutenant.
With that he turned aside from the table and spoke a few words in a low tone to LeNoir, who assisted Rouleau from the room, and after some minutes' absence, returned with a little linen bag.
He surely might have avoided that; and yet whenever he thought of the game that had swept away from Rouleau all his winter's earnings, and of the cruel blow that had followed, he felt his muscles stiffen and his teeth set tight in rage.
In a tone of triumph which he could not altogether suppress, Rouleau exclaimed "Dees are good enough for me.
From the outset Rouleau steadily won till his chips were piled high in front of him.
But the demon of play had taken full possession of both Rouleauand the lieutenant and they were not to be denied.
In the meantime the King played on, taking no notice of anyone, his beaked nose dropping lower towards his chin as he lost one rouleau after another to Bassompierre.
Here is your money, see it is not Tournois,' and he slid a rouleauacross the table towards me.
The fragment was followed by a rouleau of dark blue paper, which emitted a dull chink as it struck the ground.
And Tchartkóff still felt the print of the rouleau upon his palm, as though it had but that instant left his grasp.
The rouleau of gold that she had offered to the bailiffs came to the mind of Rudolph.
Here, sir, take the money," said the young girl, giving a rouleau of gold to Malicorne.
For the first time he visited Donna Pelliccia at her own house, and begging her to forgive him for having been the innocent cause of her disgrace, asked her to accept a rouleau and a letter which he laid on the table.
The rouleau contained a hundred gold ounces with the words "for travelling expenses," and the letter was addressed to a Roman bank, and proved to be an order for twenty-four thousand Roman crowns.
He used a disgusting English oath, and flung his last rouleau across the table like a drunken fiend.
There's the girl's money," said Malicorne, giving back to Louise the rouleau he had received.
Here, sir, you will find it quite right," said the poor girl, placing the rouleau of gold in the hands of Malicorne.
But--as an obligation to me--can you find no way in which a rouleau of gold would benefit your men?
Instead a rouleau of Napoleons was laid on his open palm.
How easy it is to play the saint and Samaritan with two words to one's maitre d'hotel, and a rouleau of gold that one never misses!
At last he won, when he asked the bankers to look at their loss, and count the money in his rouleau before they paid him.
As long as he lost, which he did several times, he took up therouleau on the table, and gave another from his pocket.
In the court he found Penelon, who, with a rouleau of a hundred francs in either hand, seemed unable to make up his mind to retain them.
Rouleau had a broad ruddy face marked with as few traces of thought or care as a child's.
In fact Rouleau had an unlucky partiality for squaws.
By a strange coincidence, Reynal's prediction had been verified; for the first persons whom I saw were the two trappers, Rouleau and Saraphin, coming to meet me.
Old Mene-Seela, a true friend of the whites, and many other of the Indians gathered about the two trappers, and vainly endeavored to turn them from their purpose; but Rouleau and Saraphin only laughed at the danger.
Rouleau only laughed, and began to hum a tune and shuffle a dance on his stumps of feet.
If I continue to sit here now, it is because that old fellow yonder has got a rouleau in his pocket which he cannot persuade himself to break.
A rouleau of louis escaped at the instant, and fell about the table.
I think you'll find that rouleau correct; and now, sir, au revoir.
I put the rouleau on my dressing-table, sat on my bed and began to take off my boots.
It came into my mind that someone had entered the room to rob me of my rouleau of money, but after lying for some moments, breathing regularly to simulate sleep, I realised this was mere fancy.
Jean Valjean walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden, and while doing so took from his pocket the rouleau of silver.
When the old woman had gone off he made a rouleau of some hundred francs which he had in a chest of drawers and put it in his pocket.
For, of course, when poor Widow Rouleau has a wealthy young lady to take an interest in her, she must have no further fear.
So saying he took up the rouleau of gold he had given to Marguerite and departed.
There was a little more in the rouleau than had been bargained for.
Two hundred dollars were to him a mere bagatelle; and taking an ebony case from his bed, small but heavy, he drew from it a rouleau of gold pieces and handed them to the gambusino, who immediately put them in his pocket.
Concerning a rouleau of guineas and the crack of a pistol 218 LIII.
One night we were keeping our table as usual at the Countess of Liliengarten's, and Magny being in cash somehow, kept drawing out rouleau after rouleau, and playing with his common ill success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rouleau" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
