"Roly-poly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attendants. She was a charge to keep and foster, and the duty was performed with devotion, which took little concern for self-sacrifice. Before many months had passed Soosie had been transformed into a fat roly-poly with a perpetual smile and gurgles of ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... thought that they all looked tired and harassed. She knew them fairly well from the many newspaper pictures she had seen of them. The fat gentleman, with penetrating blue eyes and a clean-shaven face, was Senator Smith of Texas. The roly-poly man, with black eyes and a grizzled beard, was Senator Elway of Maine, and the tall, smooth-shaven man with red hair was Senator James of ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... came 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
... up to the edge of the Old Briarpatch quite out of breath. You see, he is so round and fat and roly-poly that to run makes him puff and blow. Johnny Chuck's eyes danced with excitement as he peered into the Old Briar-patch, ...
— The Adventures of Reddy Fox • Thornton W. Burgess
... These Indians don't know how to manage their roly-poly canoes and I'm afraid I'll be drowned before ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock
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