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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
roll .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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,
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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,
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An 'at langth lost his vootèn, an' roll'd vrom the top,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride:
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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That sparkled as they roll'd, and seem'd to threat:
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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The big warm tears roll'd down, and caked the sand,
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Twice round his waist their winding volumes roll'd;
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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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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