"Roly-poly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... contrast, these two, the ladies at the Lodge. Miss Grey, the elder, was a little roly-poly woman, with a meek, round, fair- complexioned face, and pulpy soft-hands—one of those people who irresistibly remind one of a white mouse. She was neither clever nor wise, but she was very sweet-tempered. She had ...
— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... time for dessert Mrs. Gorman bore the tray in on which it was served, a cherry roly-poly, covered ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... little stone closet, and sure enough there lay madam in state, with four little blind, snubbed-nosed pledges. As the man picked up one of these, and held it up before me in all the helplessness of infancy, looking for all the world like a roly-poly pudding with a short tail to it, I could not help querying in my mind, are you going to ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... olive branch. Plenty a cornucopia, Good Resolutions a diary and pen, and Hope wearing a wreath of golden stars and carrying a gilt anchor (cut from heavy cardboard); Santa Claus, a stout, roly-poly boy, if possible, wearing a long overcoat flaked with cotton (to represent snow) and a round fur cap and mittens; an empty pack should hang carelessly from ...
— Christmas Entertainments • Alice Maude Kellogg |
