"Rollo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Exchange I took her up, and there to the King's playhouse (at the door met with W. Joyce in the street, who come to our coach side, but we in haste took no notice of him, for which I was sorry afterwards, though I love not the fellow, yet for his wife's sake), and saw a piece of "Rollo," a play I like not much, but much good acting in it: the house very empty. So away home, and I a little to the office, and then to Sir Robert Viner's, and so back, and find my wife gone down by water to take a little ayre, and I to my chamber and there spent the ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... about seven years old, he was sitting upon the steps of the door, and he heard a noise in the street, as of some sort of carriage approaching. A moment afterwards, a carryall came in sight. It drove up to the front gate, and stopped. Rollo's father and mother and his little brother Nathan got out. His father fastened the horse to the post, ...
— Rollo's Experiments • Jacob Abbott
... that Caesar was evolved from the currents in the air about the Roman Capitol, that Marcus Aurelius was a blend of Plato and Cleanthes, Charlemagne a graft of Frankish blood on Gallic soil, William I. a rill from Rollo filtered in Neustrian fields, Hildebrand a flame from the altar of the mediaeval church, Barbarossa a plant grown to masterdom in German woods, or later—not to heap up figures whose memories still possess the world—that Columbus was a Genoan breeze, ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol
... of The Nation noticed distinctly that, from 1895 on, its tone became more pessimistic and its criticism was marked by greater acerbity. Mr. Rollo Ogden in his biography shows that Godkin's feeling of disappointment over the progress of the democratic experiment in America, and his hopelessness of our future, began ...
— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes
... leak ricamente, richly rico, rich riesgo, risk rio, river riqueza, wealth rizados, crespolinas, crimps rizo (del ala), curl (of the brim of a hat) robar, to rob, to steal roble, encina, oak rodajas de goma, rubber heels (revolving) rogar, to ask, to beg, to require rollo, roll romperse (p. p., roto), to break rosa, rose, pink rotura, breakage ruin, base, sordid rumbo, course (of ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano |
