A roll of ribbon

Usage examples of rouleau.

Rouleau, as instructed, made his preparation for the ballooning with slow deliberation, giving Fitzfarris ample time to do a booming business with his game.

Phoebe had waddled off to her wagon, Magpie Maggie Hag stayed awake most of the night, to look in on Rouleau at intervals.

Maggie Magpie Hag, who stayed to look after Rouleau, and Hannibal, who stayed to guard everything else.

Roozeboom and Rouleau to unrope and unpeg the sidewall sections of canvas, and roll them up and lug them to the tent wagon.

During the ride, Rouleau eagerly inquired of Edge what else he knew about balloons and the technicalities of ballooning.

But Nadar hurried on ahead, Rouleau with him, to where his assistants had been sending up the trial paper balloons since dawn, some of them let to float free, others on strings.

And all about that neighbourhood, even from the august London and Country Banking Company, from the tills of shops and inns--doors standing that sunny weather entirely open--money had been quietly and dexterously making off that day in handfuls and rouleaux, floating quietly along by walls and shady places, dodging quickly from the approaching eyes of men.

I was greatly touched when the worthy man slipped into my hands a rouleau, telling me it contained twelve quadruples, which I could repay at my convenience.

In the court he found Penelon, who, with a rouleau of a hundred francs in either hand, seemed unable to make up his mind to retain them.

So saying, I slipped into her hand a rouleau, it being the fifty louis I owed her.

Most of the men also donned clothes nattier than overalls and also went to church: Trimm to the Baptist, Roozeboom to the Methodist, Rouleau to the Episcopal—that being the closest thing to Roman Catholic in Lexington—and even Hannibal went seeking a black congregation of some denomination.

From that ascension day on, Rouleau found it impossible to buy a beer, a meal or even a pretzel in Si&oacute.

And all about that neighbourhood, even from the august London and Country Banking Company, from the tills of shops and inns -- doors standing that sunny weather entirely open -- money had been quietly and dexterously making off that day in handfuls and rouleaux, floating quietly along by walls and shady places, dodging quickly from the approaching eyes of men.

One night we were keeping our table as usual at the Countess of Liliengarten's, and Magny being in cash somehow, kept drawing out rouleau after rouleau, and playing with his common ill success.

Leon Gambetta was as unprepossessing in person as he was in reputation—short, fat, bearded, of swarthy and oily complexion, looking very much what he was, the son of an immigrant Genoese grocer—and, for a time, Rouleau wondered how the man could nervously eye both of the far-apart balloons at once, until he realized that Gambetta's left eye was of glass, and disconcertingly independent of his good one.