169 adjectives to describe roll

The Boy whipped out a little roll of money, counted out thirty dollars, and held it towards the Colonel.

But now there is a continuous roll of musketry near the knoll, back of the Warrenton road.

" Again she smiled up at him radiantly, and the young man's astonished glance went from her dusty, cowhide shoes to the thick roll of fair hair on her graceful head.

The distant roll of thunder and the sighing of the wind gave warning of the approach of a storm.

till the mists that enshroud the soul, Like sleep's drowsy shadows backward roll, And show the spirit its radiant goal, That nought may blind it all its days, Or tempt it down earth's crooked ways; Drink!

The likeness was heightened by a tattooed device which covered the back of his right hand, and a slight roll in his gait when he walked.

My father sprang up, balancing himself lightly and accurately against each sudden roll.

She had put a plate with round butter-balls beside the steaming coffee-pot, and fresh round rolls peeped invitingly from an old-fashioned little china basket.

Each general led his men forward through the mist and darkness against an enemy whose strength was unknown, and whose position was only indicated by the flash of his guns and the steady roll of his musketry.

The letter was served to the boy along with one bowl of tea and one buttered roll, of eighty such which were distributed to fourscore other boys, boarders of the same house with our young friend.

The mighty roll of the prose books that fill her libraries begins with the translations of Alfred, and above all with the chronicle of his reign.

She must see if that had risen, and with her own hands mold the snowy breakfast rolls which Ethelyn liked so much.

Obviously, the English side cannot rival such a brilliant roll; the élite of society has not been here, as in New England, on the side of the newer theology.

A sharp, quick roll of wheels startled me.

I then drew from under the pillow my precious roll of greenbacks, took out a ten-dollar bill, and, very softly unlocking my trunk, put the remainder, about three hundred dollars, in the inside pocket of a coat near the bottom, glad of the opportunity to put it unobserved in a place of safety.

No one of the children of the land was found of wisdom sufficient to read the hieroglyphs; therefore the sacred roll was divided among the souls in the nation: unto each was given one note from the divine whole.

A letter may be compressed into a thin spiral roll, not differing much in shape or bulk from a large knitting-needle, and in this form it might be inserted into the rung of a chair, for example.

He brought the bedding-roll closer and opened it into a rough-and-ready bed.

" He drew out a little tight roll of bills and sorted out three five-dollar notes gravely.

They were not bigger than a good-sized roll.

The old Bengal Artillery have a splendid roll of services, extending for upwards of 100 years; still, in the annals of that distinguished regiment there is no brighter record than their achievements before Delhi in 1857.

[Head, life size, modeled from a baby three days old, eyes slightly narrowed, mouth closed, fat rolls at back of neck]

Not the library is inspirational, but the life-spirit of mankind, bound up in even dusty papyrus-rolls, or set on clay-tablets of four thousand years ago.

Traces of the same occurrence are observable over the surface of much worn chilled rolls used in sheet mills.

(She takes the things out of the basket, crumples up some tissue paper and breaks a crisp brown roll.)

169 adjectives to describe  roll