Read full poem →To see their judgments hang upon thy voice;
From morn to night, at senate, rolls, and hall,
Plead much, read more, dine late, or not at all.
Dictionary Entry
The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
In a Sentence
“Look at the roll of the waves.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rollsroyce rollsseries rollsrolls welfarerolls taxrolls court
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Poetry examples for “rolls”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In every town, where Thamis rolls his tyde,
A narrow pass there is, with houses low;
Read full poem →White-eyed and poisonous-finned, shark-toothed and serpentine-curled,
Rolls, under the whitening wind of the future, the wave of the world.
The depths stand naked in sunder behind it, the storms flee away;
Read full poem →White-eyed and poisonous-finned, shark-toothed and serpentine-curled,
Rolls, under the whitening wind of the future, the wave of the world.
The depths stand naked in sunder behind it, the storms flee away;
Read full poem →One! Two! Three! In the chaos of space
Rolls the earth to the hideous glee
Of death! And so cramped is this place,
Read full poem →The darkness rolls upward.
The thick darkness carries with it
Read full poem →They are scared half out of their wits, poor souls.
For my lord has a casket full of rolls
Of minted sovereigns, and silver bars.
Read full poem →once flattered with hopes of being Master
of the Rolls, now Governor of Nevis :
Privy-chamber man.
Read full poem →Of two so early men,
Whose lines her rolls were, and records;
Who, ere the first down bloomed on the chin,
Read full poem →Of two so early men,
Whose lines her rolls were, and records;
Who, ere the first down bloomed upon the chin,