12420 examples of rolling in sentences

but the rolling of thunder.

The other was out on the road late at night waiting for her young man, when something came flapping and rolling along the road up to her feet.

He has heard the hedgehog"grainne oge," he calls him "grunting like a Christian," and is certain that he steals apples by rolling about under an apple tree until there is an apple sticking to every quill.

Inside was a sleepy-looking waiter in his shirt-sleeves engaged in the leisurely pursuit of rolling up napkins.

Flat columns relieved the blank wall of this passage, with monstrous copies of Raphael's cartoons filling the interspaces; on the other hand four tall windows, two on either side of the door, looked out upon the porte cochère, the avenue, and the rolling hills beyond Axcester.

" I happened to look around while the boy was speaking, and there sat the old Doctor with the tears rolling unheeded down his ruddy face; he was thinking, no doubt, of his war time and the comrades he knew.

The orc, beholding it, felt it smite its eyes like lightning; and rolling over its unwieldy body in the foam which it had raised, lay turned up, like a dead fish, insensible.

TANCRED AND CLORINDA The Christians, in their siege of Jerusalem, had brought a huge rolling tower against the walls, from which they battered and commanded the city with such deadly effect, that the generous Amazon Clorinda resolved to go forth in disguise and burn it.

The Christians had now commenced their attack on Jerusalem, and brought a great rolling tower against the walls, built from the wood of a forest in the neigbbourhood; when the Malignant Spirit, who has never ceased his war with Heaven, cast in his mind how he might best defeat their purpose.

The gods of the abyss came thronging up on all sides through the gates;terrible-looking beings with unaccountable aspects, dispensers of death and horror with their eyes;some stamping with hoofs, some rolling on enormous spires,their faces human, their hair serpents.

But soon it was a bloody, and a turbulent, and a raging, and a groaning thing:pennons down, horses and men rolling over, foes heaped upon one another, bright armour exchanged for blood and dirt, flesh trampled, and spirit fatigued.

But what a vast, what a frightful flood, rolling ever onward toward a human sea, swelling it unceasingly for the unknown future!

there is another and then another.[100] Close to Saint Germain l'Auxerrois women are busy pulling down the wooden seats; children are rolling empty wine-barrels and carrying sacks of earth.

At an immense dept below the rock which constitutes Mount Calvary (which was formed in this spot by the rolling of the waters), I saw the tomb of Adam and Eve.

" "Stop here?" "Why, you don't suppose I can give up the good girl I have loved for the six years I've been rolling over the seas!

We had to skirt chasms and ravines, with torrents rolling loudly beneath, yet not visible to us, on account of the thick underwood which grew over them.

The majestic rolling of the thunder drowned the captain's voice, and the white foaming billows broke with such terrific force over the deck, that it appeared as if they would carry everything with them into the depths of the ocean.

"] At this moment the evening worship commenced within the Cathedral, and the whole building seemed to vibrate with the rising swell of the great organ, while the grave, long-drawn tones of the Ambrosian Liturgy rose surging in waves and dying away in distant murmurs, like the rolling of the tide on some ocean-shore.

A heavy arm-chair, rolling on casters, struck his legs in the rear, and he sank into it with lamb-like resignation.

"'Arcadia!' said Abel Mallory, rolling up his large green eyes.

We descend a steep bank, little pellets of snow rolling hastily beside us, and leaving enamelled furrows behind.

Thus he recapitulated what he wished to impress upon us, of the necessity of cherishing a fear that maketh wise unto salvation, "which fear," said he, "may we all enjoy, that together we may soar away, on the rolling clouds of aether, to a boundless and happy eternity, which is the wish of your humble servant."

Rolling around and searching, I finally discovered a narrow crevice, into which I shoved the shell.

In the midst of this exercise I wondered if I had lost anything out of my pockets while rolling over and over in the sand.

Flames, lurid and crackling, broke forth over a surface of more than half a square league; and the earth, as if softened by heat, was seen to rise and sink like the rolling tide.

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