The workman who held the plank profited by the space thus given him, and slipped the
roller under the stone.
I could smooth that grass beautiful; them young ladies 'll strain themselves with that heavy roller. If tennis is the word, I can put up nets fit to catch birds of paradise in.
Might I take a turn with the roller, and make myself useful about the place until nightfall, for ninepence?"
Squeezing a drop of ink onto the glass, he spread it back and forth with the rubber
roller until the entire surface of the glass was covered to his satisfaction with a very thin and uniform layer of ink.
As the smooth- backed
rollers passed to the south-ward, they hove the dory high and high into the mist, and dropped her in ugly, sucking, dimpled water, where she spun round her anchor, within a foot or two of the hidden rock.
Before she hit it she was going at a reckless speed, for we had laid our tracks quite down to the water, greased them, and at intervals placed
rollers all ready to receive the ship as she moved forward with stately dignity.
The fisherman pointed to the
rollers tumbling in on the sand-bank, and to the great waves leaping up in clouds of foam against the headlands on either side of us.
This is a biological station--of a sort." His eye rested on the men in white who were busily hauling the puma, on
rollers, towards the walled yard.
On my part I have just issued directions that a bark should be rolled on
rollers to the mouth of the great cavern of Locmaria, which you know, where we have so often lain in wait for the foxes."
The breeze blew, the sail bellied, over heeled the portly vessel, and away she plunged through the smooth blue rollers, amid the clang of the minstrels on her poop and the shouting of the black crowd who fringed the yellow beach.
Broad and ungainly, she floundered from wave to wave, dipping her round bows deeply into the blue rollers, and sending the white flakes of foam in a spatter over her decks.
And she would drag him up above the clouds, in the magnificent disorder of the grid, where she loved to make him giddy by running in front of him along the frail bridges, among the thousands of ropes fastened to the pulleys, the windlasses, the
rollers, in the midst of a regular forest of yards and masts.