Do we say roles or rolls

roles 48 occurrences

Once the piece was accepted it passed into the domain of the theatre, and the actors felt at liberty to interpret the roles according to their ideas and traditions.

Then with the aid of Roles, king of some of the Getae, he destroyed them.

Roles when he visited Caesar was treated as a friend and ally for this assistance: the captives were distributed to the soldiers.

[-26-] While he was so occupied he received a summons from Roles, who had become embroiled with Dapyx, himself also a king of the Getae.

When prices are falling the roles are reversed, and we are likely to see the sellers tumbling over one another in a frantic eagerness to sell, the buyers wary and aloof.

I saw that men were not at all stinted in the distribution of the roles to be played, and I therefore became a man.

She was very dramatic, and made her chief success in men's roles, singing bass songs transposed an octave higher.

Indeed such early dramatists as Ennius and Accius had already felt the need of developing the interest of feminine roles when they paraphrased classical Greek plays for their audiences.

Unconscious actors,it may be That here we painfully rehearse, In parts, whose plots we do not see, Some drama of the universe, Advanced, as nobler grow our souls, To loftier roles.

Across the valley, steeped in light, Uplifted toward the western skies, And flanked by many a snow-crowned height, The stately "Roman Terrace" lies; Whose fair expanse hath been a stage Where actors for two thousand years Have played, by turns, in every age Their varying roles of smiles and tears.

For once their respective roles were reversed, he the talker, she the listener.

Plays took them to the Killarney Rose and once more Miss Clay expressed her pleasure in the girl's rendering of one of her own favorite roles.

[Footnote 4: In modern usage the roles and regulations of clubs, learned societies, and other associations, are also called by-laws.]

That is why I was anxious to have the war end and embrace the first opportunity to change our roles.

Melun had changed roles with Paris.

Rossini seems to have fallen in love with her art and herself, and he wrote ten roles for her.

Slim and the Captain, still in their roles of mammy and pickaninny, walked home with the Winnebagos when the party finally broke up, the pickaninny trundling his own one-wheeled chariot, which was so full of presents there was no room for him.

And in her eager desire to compass all the Master's work, she did not hesitate to compromise her reputation for power and vigor by attempting roles of lighter or tenderer vein.

Such a change can hardly have come about without historical reasons and although the exact circumstances must perhaps remain obscure, we can see in this sharp reversal of roles a clear response to certain Indian needs.

Sawant Singh's delight seems to have been shared by a local artist, Nihal Chand, for under the Raja's direction he produced a number of pictures in which Radha and Krishna sustained the leading roles.

Girls of that generation at Mt. Holyoke will not forget their Indian fellow student who "starred" in Shakespearian roles and brought a new Oriental atmosphere to the pages of the college magazine.

His exquisite harmonies in the dramatic art and lyric declamation were beautiful indeed, but the æsthetic beauties which he brought forth in the roles that he interpreted, must, alas!

One's particular vocation (or congenial line of work) is the first condition in either of these departments of art, and into the consideration of this must enter that of physical beauty such as the roles demand; always considering what has been named "the physique" of the situation.

People born into a rapidly changing society are often tempted and sometimes compelled to play significant roles in the revolutionary process.

The roles of women are the important ones in the works of this author.

rolls 1467 occurrences

They tend to adhere in long rolls like piles of coins.

He is still on the rolls, mind you, but I doubt if any case would have its chances improved by his conducting it.

A huge table, littered with old dingy volumes, and with dusty rolls of papers tied with red tapea tall desk, with a faded and ink-bespattered covering of brown clotha lofty set of "pigeon holes," nearly filled with documents of every descriptionand a set of chairs and stools in every state of dilapidation:there was the ante-room of Joseph Rushton, Esq., Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor in Chancery.

I have selected these few instances from a great number of a like kind, which Madox had selected from a still greater number, preserved in the ancient rolls of the exchequer [e].

It was Wordsworth's deepest conviction that any one alive to the presence of nature's conscious spiritual force, that "rolls through all things" "Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.

The earth shook; a great wind began rising, with a sound of waters; and presently, every dreadful noise ever heard by man seemed mingled into one, and advancing to meet themroarings of lions, hissings of serpents, pealings and rolls of thunder.

The stem rises, without a fork, for sixty feet or more, and rolls out at the top into a head very like that of an elm trimmed up, and like an elm too in its lateral water-boughs.

" He drew from the breast of his tunic two small rolls of fine linen, with writing upon them, and unfolded them carefully upon his knee.

The venerable man, bending over the rolls of parchment on which the prophecies of Israel were written, read aloud the pathetic words which foretold the sufferings of the promised Messiahthe despised and rejected of men, the man of sorrows and the acquaintance of grief.

In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th inst., I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officers as you may designate.

He rolls up himself like a hedgehog in his prickles, and is as intractable to all that come near him.

He had grown stout during the last five or six years, and he looked like a veritable mountain of flesh overlaid with rolls of fat.

" Don Sanchez rolls his cigarro in his lips, looking me straight in the face and somewhat sternly, and asks me quietly if I have ever found him lacking in loyalty and friendship.

PaintersLawrence, Howard, Corbould, Westall, Turner, Landseer, Stephanoff, Chalon, Stothard, &c. EngraversC. Heath, Finden, Engleheart, Portbury, Wallis, Rolls, Goodyear, &c. ContributorsScott, Mackintosh, Moore, the Lords Normanby, Morpeth, Porchester, Holland, Gower, and Nugent; Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Shelley, Hook, Lockhart, Croker, Mrs. Hemans, and Miss Landon; and the cost of the whole eleven thousand guineas!

CHANTECLER Cross? PATOU Grrrrrrr CHANTECLER When he rolls his r's like that he is very cross indeed.

The ploughing is immediately followed up by the hengha, which again triturates and breaks up the clods, rolls the sticks, leaves, and grass roots together, brings the refuse and dirt to the surface, and again levels the soil, and prevents the wind from taking away the moisture.

The straining-table is being cleaned by the table 'mate' and his coolies, while the washerman stamps on his sheets and press-cloths to extract all the colour from them, and the cake-house boys run to and fro between the cutting-table and the cake-house with batches of cakes on their heads, borne on boards, like a baker taking his hot rolls from the oven, or like a busy swarm of ants taking the spoil of the granary to their forest haunt.

We have none of these in Behar, but the huge porpoise gives splendid rifle or carbine practice as he rolls through the turgid streams.

[m]When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quits his ease for fame;

Should partial catcals all his hopes confound, He bids no trumpet quell the fatal sound. Should welcome sleep relieve the weary wit, He rolls no thunders o'er the drowsy pit; No snares, to captivate the judgment, spreads, Nor bribes your eyes to prejudice your heads.

While fair Hungaria's unexhausted valleys Pour forth their legions; and the roaring Danube Rolls half his floods, unheard, through shouting camps!

with swift and silent pace, Impatient time rolls on the year; The seasons change, and nature's face Now sweetly smiles, now frowns severe, 'Twas spring, 'twas summer, all was gay, Now autumn bends a cloudy brow; The flow'rs of spring are swept away, And summer-fruits desert the bough.

Oh! send them to the sullen mansions dun, Her baleful eyes where sorrow rolls around; Where gloom-enamour'd mischief loves to dwell, And murder, all blood-bolter'd, schemes the wound.

we can only call and no name more; As the great lonely thunder rolls sublime, As the great sun doth solitary climb, And we have but themselves to know them by, Just so Love stands a stranger amid Time:

Finally, it is wound into large rolls ready for commercial use.

Do we say   roles   or  rolls