35 adjectives to describe rollings

But the landlady no longer heeded him; she was listening to a distant rolling.

The sea-breeze was fresh and cool, and the stars glittered with a frosty clearness, which would have made the night delicious had not a slight rolling of the waves obliged me to go below.

Suddenly, in a violent rolling of the ship, Negoro fell, and he would, doubtless, have been thrown into the sea if he had not held on to the binnacle.

There were no high mountains, but a continual smooth rolling of hills, so that the landscape varied with every half-mile he traveled.

"Him and his holy rolling? Is that all you want to know?

If one had taken breath while the other spoke, or rather shouted, I should have suffered less; but they both shouted together, and their struggle to get the better of one another by force of lung, gesticulation, and frenzied rolling of the eyes became a duel, whereby the solitary witness was the only person harmed.

Not only had my ears caught the long ever-steady rolling (already observed three days since) but I had been able to make out a difference in the caliber of each piece that fired, and added to it all was a funny clattering sound, as when one drags a wooden stick along an iron barred fence.

There were no high mountains, but a continual smooth rolling of hills, so that the landscape varied with every half-mile he traveled.

The hushing of the trees, the gentle rolling of the waves behind a strong sea-wall, and the warbling of the little birds, all seemed to aid our worship; but these would have been nothing had not the presence of our Divine Master been near.

The clerks heard with astonishment a tumult in the directors' roomexclamations, hurried questions, the hasty rolling of chairs on their casters, and then the sound of feet.

Thy lawless style, from timid systems free, Impetuous rolling like a troubled sea, High o'er the rocks of reason's lofty verge Impending hangs; yet, ere the foaming surge Breaks o'er the bound, the refluent ebb of taste Back from the shore impels the wat'ry waste.

Such a cask would not roll evenly; and irregular rolling might lead to investigation.

She had heard the loud rolling of a carriage, and she knew what it meant.

Now it was a square object moving sideways, endways, with neither head nor tail and scarcely visible feet; then an arched bulk rolling against the trunks of the trees and recoiling again, or an upright cylindrical mass, but always oscillating and unsteady, and striking the trees on either hand.

Kazan's answer was an ominous rolling of smothered thunder deep down in his throat.

Tayoga was a trailer of surpassing skill, and he reached the top without rustling a bush or sending a single pebble rolling.

It has been the perpetual rolling of a stone, which I have always had to raise anew.

For an hour or more, we tried in vain to get rid of it, on account of the prodigious rolling of the ship, and, before we had succeeded, the carpenter came aft

" The sound of the post-horn was now heard from the street below and then the rapid rolling of a carriage.

Thou'rt on thy couch of wither'd leaves, The surly blast thy breath receives, In the stript woods I hear thy dirge, Thy passing bell the hinds are tolling Thy death-song sounds in ocean's surge, Oblivion's clouds are round thee rolling, Thou'lst buried be where buried lie Years of the dead eternity!

"The rusty, weed-coated steamer rolling on the blue combers, and the little, battered tug, holding her head-to-sea.

" The prostrate woman made no answer, save by a slow rolling of her body,her sobs continuing without cessation.

This question, mingled with various thoughts and recollections of former experiences with Miss Panney, occupied the doctor's mind until he heard the swift rolling of the dog-cart wheels as they passed his window.

Flora sprang up with a quick cry, and rushed out of the room, upsetting her basket, and leaving balls and thimble rolling about the floor.

You can get a marvelous quantity of thin tracing-paper into a small compass by tight rolling.

35 adjectives to describe  rollings