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  • verb Present participle of uproll.

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Examples

  • Mrs. Margery Burleigh sat with her face turned from the stage, to dissemble the secret impatience with which she awaited the uprolling of the curtain, and slowly waved to and fro a huge, flowered fan, which charged the air with a heavy Indian perfume.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • She shrank from the uprolling of the curtain of the last thirteen years, from the grim exposure of the nakedness of their life together.

    The Money Master, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • She shrank from the uprolling of the curtain of the last thirteen years, from the grim exposure of the nakedness of their life together.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • She shrank from the uprolling of the curtain of the last thirteen years, from the grim exposure of the nakedness of their life together.

    The Money Master, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The foliage of them, deep green shading to russet, was arrestingly solid and metallic, offering a rather magnificent scheme of stormy colour taken in connection with the hot purple of the uprolling cloud.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • And the staring colours of these last, raw reds and yellows, the blue smoke beating down from their little stove-pipe chimneys, the dirty white of tent flaps and awnings, stood out harshly in a flare of stormy sunlight against the solid green of the oaks and uprolling masses of black-purple cloud.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • Yes, and in her blue eyes there was the same concentration of light, there was the same uprolling of the lips, there was the same dreadful gleaming of the teeth, the same swollen veins about the throat that I had seen in

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

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