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  • You will deserve a rolypoly as long as from here to tomorrow.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The three mutton-chops consumed by him were best of the mutton kind; the potatoes were perfect of their order; as for the rolypoly, it was too good.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • As he took medication to battle pulmonary fibrosis, Jerry Lewis became a rolypoly love-pug, and we love him that way!

    Eight Day Week 2003

  • As he took medication to battle pulmonary fibrosis, Jerry Lewis became a rolypoly love-pug, and we love him that way!

    Eight Day Week 2003

  • Stap my vitals, said he, them was always the sentiments of honest Frank Costello which I was bred up most particular to honour thy father and thy mother that had the best hand to a rolypoly or a hasty pudding as you ever see what I always looks back on with a loving heart.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Her first effort had been a pair of dragon-lamps, or rather, night-lights; comical, rolypoly fellows who gently burned lamp-oil at a wick in their open mouths.,

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • Her first effort had been a pair of dragon-lamps, or rather, night-lights; comical, rolypoly fellows who gently burned lamp-oil at a wick in their open mouths.,

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • She was being disagreeable and not at all like the good-natured rolypoly chum of past years.

    Phyllis A Twin Dorothy Whitehill

  • The perspiration glistened on his hands and wrists, dripped from his fat face and neck, and his once-starched clothes hung limp from his rolypoly frame.

    Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

  • I reached the top landing again, three steps at a time; but the voice that said "Come!" was not Helen's and the figure that turned from pulling at the shades was short and rolypoly and crowned by flaming red hair.

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

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  • Hot mockturtle vapour and steam of newbaked jampuffs rolypoly poured out from Harrison's.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 8

    January 3, 2007