What is "rolled over"

Usage examples of "rolled over".

On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had rolled over the trial for treason, and carried it, as to the public interest and memory, far out to sea, Mr.

Shann only knew that it was close to impossible to snatch the necessary breath as he was rolled over and over in the hurrying flood.

He rolled over on his back, aimed his feet at the V of rushing white water, as he had been trained, and approached the first set of boulders.

The man went flat and rolled over, grabbing feebly at the earth, his hands helpless, his gun rattling on the rocks.

At this moment Kerry groaned loudly, tossed his arm out with a convulsive movement, and rolled over on to his side, drawing up his knees.

Leovinus rolled over onto the restaurant floor unconscious, with blood pouring from his head.

With a final scream and a convulsive shudder, the beast rolled over and lay still.

I rolled over on my back, gasping with pain, and looked up into Novak's face.

Norton snapped, and a machine burst out of the nearest wall and rolled over to attend to the man.

Tossed up and down, tossed this way and tossed that way, rolled over and over, checked, rolled the other way and tossed up again, I was sinking lower and lower.

While he was still talking, with his hand on the smaller bottle, the other, which was lying on its side, accidentally rolled over in such a manner that the metal caught against the table.