roll.' name='description'> roll'd - definition and meaning

Definitions

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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of roll.

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Examples

  • These and a thousand desperate Thoughts roll'd in my Breast, by which I found Poverty to be a greater Enemy to Vertue, than Riches: For if the

    Exilius 2008

  • Anyhow, I thought it was incredibly funny and promptly sent the link to all my friends so they can be roll'd too.

    toastcrumbs Diary Entry toastcrumbs 2008

  • I threw myself on the Bed, roll'd on the Floor, hoped that every Cramp I felt would be my Death's Convulsion, utter'd a Thousand Imprecations against him and my hard Fortune, and contrary to that Philosopher, who thank'd the Gods that made him a Man and not a Beast; I say, quite contrary to him, over and over, I thus expostulated,

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • I threw myself on the Bed, roll'd on the Floor, hoped that every Cramp I felt would be my Death's Convulsion, utter'd a Thousand Imprecations against him and my hard Fortune, and contrary to that Philosopher, who thank'd the Gods that made him a Man and not a Beast; I say, quite contrary to him, over and over, I thus expostulated,

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • An 'at langth lost his vootèn, an' roll'd vrom the top,

    Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes

  • But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride:

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • That sparkled as they roll'd, and seem'd to threat:

    The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The big warm tears roll'd down, and caked the sand,

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Twice round his waist their winding volumes roll'd;

    The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • But down they pushed her -- roll'd her o'er and o'er,

    A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father William Cooper

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