But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height, Descending slow, their glittering skirts unroll? Visions of glory, spare my aching sight!

"Will it really unroll to us at some future time?

When tyranny, from pole to pole, sways o'er the earth with dire control, We see from first to last unroll the victor-flag Of dervishes.

The Cid continued to unroll the Address.

He talks of all wild creatures except squirrelswhom he hateswith what seems an affectionate interest, though at times his eyes will twinkle with pleasure as he remembers how he made hedgehogs unroll themselves when he was a boy, by putting a wisp of burning straw under them.

[Chem]; dissect, decentralize, break up; disperse &c 73; unravel &c (unroll) 313; crumble into dust.

V. evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel; untangle, disentangle; develop.

Let him ask the quizzical Herodotus to unroll for him the film of human wanderings, the long panorama of social customs, sometimes ignoble or ridiculous, but always venerated; of the Scythians, the Gatae, the Issedones, the Gindares, the Nasamones, the Sauromates, the Lydians, the Lybians, and the Egyptians; bipeds of all colours, from East to West and from North to South.

The work to unroll which they are now employed at this Museum is a Greek treatise on philosophy by Epicurus.

It is a most delicate operation to unroll these leaves, and with the utmost possible care it is impossible to avoid effacing many of the letters, and even sentences, in the act of unrolling.

Probably only from one thatched douar[A] to another; but interminable distances unroll behind them, they breathe of Timbuctoo and the farthest desert.

By staying quietly by him and addressing him in an encouraging tone, I lately induced a very large hedgehog to unroll himself and creep slowly along close to my feet.

It is as necessary as a trunk or a bag, an overcoat or umbrella, and consists of a roll of bedding, with sheets, blankets and pillows, protected by a canvas cover securely strapped and arranged so that when he wants to retire he need only unbuckle the straps and unroll the blankets on the bunk in the railway carriage.

On the west the velvet turf began to unroll gently downward toward the river.

Arrived at school, however, the drying process set in, and he, perforce, must unroll the legs.

No one but a medicine man and his head wife could move or unroll the bundle.

Often, when a person is sick, he will ask some medicine man to unroll his pipe.

Then he tried to unroll himself, and in the effort found that one of his arms was useless; more than that, it pained him horribly.

All that was needed was to harness a pony, and the drum would unroll and lay the wire as it revolved.

Claire always took a childish delight in watching the panorama of the countryside unroll swiftly before the space-conquering flight of a train.

He cannot as yet say Our with them with such a sentiment of joint- interest, when the histories, hopes, expansion and capacities of that empire unroll their vista before him.

Such a love endures until the leaves of the Judgment Book unroll; for it laughs to scorn the pitiful fools who boast of infidelity, the "male hogs in armour," as Kingsley calls them, who look upon women as toys, the sport of an idle moment, rather than the spiritual force which leavens the world, and makes it an endurable and joyous dwelling-place.

That night we did no more than eat and unroll our beds.

As I unroll my panorama I may totter, but I hope I shall not dodder.