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I don't know; tomorrow I may back to my frustrated growling, howling, ululating madly as a Mad Hatter at that big-eyed, roley-poley, FULL-ASS moon.
Freedom on the March The Daily Growler 2006
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My charm was in my roley-poley shape I suppose and had nothing to do with any sexual appeal I had as a thin man.
Entering Poverty The Daily Growler 2006
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Some of the flats were covered with roley-poley but the rest of the country was grassed.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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At 4.15 came south-west and by south one and a half miles over level country covered with roley-poley, pigweed, saltbush, and young grass, and wooded with box and western-wood acacia to water, and encamped.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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At 10.30 travelled five miles east-south-east on an average course along the right bank of the river over rich level land covered with roley-poley, pigweed, grass, and saltbush, and wooded with box, terminalia, and other trees.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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The country consists of downs luxuriantly covered with good grasses except at places which are overrun with roley-poley.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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The laughter and jokes made us forget the taste of the ham and not a scrap of the roley-poley was left.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar
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Having started again we came one and a quarter miles over rich downs very much overrun with roley-poley.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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The mistress was a famous hand at roley-poley, and for the first Sunday after sea-sickness had gone, she prepared a big one as
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar
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We came along unwooded, well-grassed land at the back of country wooded with myall for three and a half miles, then over country more overrun with roley-poley but otherwise of a similar character for two miles to the termination of the myall.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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