Rolled
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And yet, far from leading the way on climate action, the US under President Donald Trump’s administration has
rolled
back many federal climate and environmental rules and formally indicated its intention to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement by late next year.
If it does not become less contagious with the arrival of spring weather in the northern hemisphere, nervous populations around the world may have to wait until a vaccine is developed and
rolled
out.
The players, having chosen their partners, took their places on the carefully levelled and
rolled
croquet lawn, on the two sides of a net stretched between two small gilded pillars.
Well, an egg that has been
rolled
very often becomes a shlyupik.
The carriage
rolled
away; he ran rapidly upstairs again.
Kitty was standing, with her sleeves
rolled
up, beside the bath in which the baby was splashing about, and hearing her husband's step she turned her face toward him, beckoning him with a smile.
There lightning flashed and distant thunder
rolled.
Was it not a cry of famine that the March wind
rolled
up across this naked plain?
His shirt had
rolled
up to his belly, and he lowered it, not from modesty but because he was not warm.
Jeanlin, who had
rolled
himself up, closed his eyes, saying: "Go and hang yourself; I'm going to sleep."
The engine-man, standing at his post, listened to the ringing of the signals, and his eye never moved from the indicator where the shaft was figured, with its different levels, by a vertical groove traversed by shot hanging to strings, which represented the cages; and at each departure, when the machine was put in motion, the drums--two immense wheels, five metres in radius, by means of which the two steel cables were
rolled
and unrolled-- turned with such rapidity that they became like grey powder.
In the centre an iron fireplace, a sort of closed stove without a door, glowed red and was so stuffed with burning coal that fragments flew out and
rolled
on to the trodden soil.
He certainly considered himself brave, but he felt a disagreeable emotion at his chest amid this thunder of trains, the hollow blows of the signals, the stifled howling of the trumpet, the continual flight of those cables, unrolled and
rolled
at full speed by the drums of the engine.
The coal was rich; the block broke and
rolled
in fragments along their bellies and thighs.
From time to time he got up to spit in the ashes for cleanliness, and, settled in his chair, he
rolled
his food round in his mouth, with lowered head and dull eyes.
Standing up at the foot of the mattress with hands hanging down, Maheu was looking at him and large tears
rolled
from his eyes.
He had
rolled
a cigarette, and was looking at the other two men with his mild subtle eye, his lips drawn by a slight smile.
Lénore and Henri, astonished that they had nothing to eat, began to moan; while old Bonnemort, in silence, philosophically
rolled
his tongue in his mouth to deceive his hunger.
He had two more strokes to play, and his victory was certain, when Zacharie, grinning as he availed himself of his privilege, played with so much skill that the ball
rolled
into a deep pit.
At the word "justice" the crowd, shaken by a long shudder, broke out into applause which
rolled
along with the sound of dry leaves.
The cheering
rolled
up to him from the depths of the forest.
And in the dizziness which came over her, she recalled her grandfather Bonnemort's stories of the days when there was no passage, and little girls of ten used to take out the coal on their shoulders up bare ladders; so that if one of them slipped, or a fragment of coal simply
rolled
out of a basket, three or four children would fall down head first from the blow.
And she was
rolled
down and trampled over.
An enormous putter-woman, who
rolled
out with her breast to her belly and her belly to her backside, raised a furious laugh.
And then the men came up, two thousand madmen--trammers, pikemen, menders--a compact mass which
rolled
along like a single block in confused serried rank so that it was impossible to distinguish their faded trousers or ragged woollen jackets, all effaced in the same earthy uniformity.
Everything disappeared: the flood
rolled
on to Montsou along the turns of the road, between the low houses streaked with bright colours.
Amid the stuffy hangings the fury of the mob
rolled
more disturbingly, with vague and terrible menace.
And suddenly both his hands let go at once, and he
rolled
down like a ball, leapt at the gutter, and fell across the middle wall in such a way that, by ill chance, he rebounded on the side of the road, where his skull was broken open on the corner of a stone pillar.
Souvarine, in his quiet way, had
rolled
a cigarette, but he forgot to light it.
And as Jeanlin was making up his mind, he
rolled
his handkerchief, and bound the soldier's neck tightly, without drawing out the knife, so as to prevent the blood from flowing.
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