304 examples of unrolled in sentences

And then unrolled the gorgeous tapestry of the maturer reign of the Grand Monarque,that sovereign whom his priests in their liturgy styled "the chief work of the Divine hands," and of whom Mazarin said, more honestly, that there was material enough in him for four kings and one honest man.

" And as he spoke the lonely Moor from out his mantle's fold With many a sigh, that scorched the air, a lettered page unrolled.

Thy fate shall be unrolled according to The will of God, the sovereign Lord most high.

No empire or kingdom, at least since imperial Rome perished from the earth, ever unrolled a surface so vast and so variegated, so manifold in its fertilities and so various in its aspects of beauty and sublimity.

Each of the six smaller circles registered on a moving ribbon the indications of every successive moment, these ribbons when unrolled forming a perfect record of temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, and so forth, in the form of a curvea register kept for more than 8000 Martial years.

A more dismal, gloomy view surely never unrolled itself before the eye of man.

Galen, stooping over a crucible with an unrolled parchment on the table within reach, was not distinguishable until he moved; when he ceased moving he faded out again, and Sextus had to go and stand where he could touch him, to believe that he was really there.

Willis says, travelling on an English railway is equivalent to having so many miles of green damask unrolled before your weary eyes.

He unrolled the socks and found them much longer in the leg than the kind habitually worn by men.

To his eagerly exploring eye the future unrolled itself in the likeness of an endless scroll illuminated with adventures all piquant, picturesque, and profitable.

I, in a cool and lonely nook, Gloomily, gloomily, Poring over some musty book, Thoughtfully, thoughtfully; Or on the parchment margin unrolled, Painting quaint pictures in purple and gold.

On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows.

" "We'd better get the ponchos unrolled and the beds made up before we start supper," said Sahwah briskly, getting down to business immediately, as usual.

" Giggling with amusement the Winnebagos sped to their tents, unrolled their ponchos, made up their beds in a hurry, undressed quickly and popped into bed.

Beholding her, remembering him, strong even through her sense of impotence, Elizabeth unrolled the pencilling of Foray.

" "Oh, my." Don pulled the drawing from the cardboard tube and unrolled it, holding it up for her to see.

Sometimes the events of the past year, ceaselessly revolving through her brain, became no longer a subject for criticism or justification but simply a series of pictures monotonously unrolled.

He felt as if it was not miles that he placed behind him, but days, weeks, months, years, that unrolled and carried him nearer and nearer to the beginning of himself.

" He took a scroll from his breast pocket and unrolled the photograph of the forest and the ranchhouse with the two mountains in the distance.

The whole thing unrolled before her like a panorama.

And presently her hair came unrolled, came showering down on his arm, on his face; and he shook like a leaf and felt as if he were going to faint, into such an ecstasy did the soft rain of these tresses throw him.

After a while the horrid beast unrolled himself, stuck out a pig-like nose, opened two shiny rat's eyes and raised himself, holding fast by his little paws, which were exactly like a mole's.

When I took out the pins and unrolled it, it fairly popped like the cork out of a champagne bottle.

As he opened or unrolled one after another, and caught the heading, or a line of the text, he dashed it to the floor, with a single word of contempt, disgust, or derision.

A soft, purple tapestry of night unrolled across the desert; the wind died, and the suffocating breath of overheated sands began to emanate from the baked earth.

304 examples of  unrolled  in sentences