What is "rolled back"

Usage examples of "rolled back".

The flowers are shortly stalked, the lower ones growing in the fork of the branches, the upper ones stalkless, crowded together in onesided, leafy spikes, which are rolled back at the top before flowering, the hairy, leafy, coarsely-toothed bracts becoming smaller upwards.

The whole plant is cottony, or softly hairy, with curled hairs, especially on the upper surfaces of the leaves, which have much narrower, regularly divided segments, slightly rolled back at theedges.

Here the Spectre stopped, the gates rolled back to receive them, and they entered a large marble hall which was partly concealed by a curtain drawn across, through the half transparent folds of which a bright light might be seen burning with dazzling lustre.

And after the smoke cleared, there was Jahn, lying on the floor, his head askew, his face half scorched, his eyes rolled back.

The leaves are alternate, entire, elliptical or oblong, 1 to 2 inches long, the upper side smooth and woolly underneath, with the edges rolled back.

Messala barely escaped a fall, while his complacent Myrtilus rolled back like a clod to the ground.

Satisfied with the start to their day, the brigade rolled back across the James to their laager point and a chance to get some rest before the big game.

It was late afternoon when we rolled back into the tourist haven of Puerto Azul.

He counted the embrasures at which the cannon might at any given moment be rolled back to their places.

It rolled back at either hand, finally sweeping off to the north and the south, fading, diminishing, gone.

Craig did his best to calm Schwinn down, but Schwinn started to dismount and suddenly his eyes rolled back in his head and he began salivating and convulsing.