What is "roly-poly"

Usage examples of "roly-poly".

We barely caressed them, we gazed upon their frayed silver glitter, tapped their hard unsilvered tips, played absently with silver ribbons, and all of us attributed magical power to the slippers: out of the poor roly-poly they had been able to make something ethereal which, thanks to ballet slippers, was capable, day in day out, of going to heaven on foot.

The roly-poly pink little diplomat was recounting all this to Stote in a sidewalk card, and half a chocolate eclair trembled on his fork as he described how he had told the German first secretary, a hard nasty customer named Dr.

The custom was to slice one of these amazing cheeses up on Christmas Eve and eat it with fruit-cakes and sherried trifles and roly-poly puddings and, most importantly, honeycakes.

When he had won uncountable thousands of credits the doors of the Penny Palace closed and the roly-poly man came over and spoke curtly.

Bob Shrum, the legendarily well-compensated roly-poly media consultant whose defection from Edwards to Kerry in February was treated in the Washington political community with the cosmic significance of Bill Gates leaving Microsoft.

We barely caressed them, we gazed upon their frayed silver glitter, tapped their hard unsilvered tips, played absently with silver ribbons, and all of us attributed magical power to the slippers: out of the poor roly-poly they had been able to make something ethereal which, thanks to ballet slippers, was capable, day in day out, of going to heaven on foot.

Conscientiously the child learned all the combinations -- how diligently she reversed her little feet in the pas de bourrée, how touchingly her roly-poly petit changement de pieds stood out against the changements of the practiced rats de ballet, how brightly, when Madame Lara practiced Little Swans with the children's class, shone Jenny's dust and time-dispelling gaze, which the austere Madame called her "Swan Lake look" -- and yet, for all the glamour that inevitably attaches to a ballerina, Jenny looked like a little pink pig trying to turn into a weightless sylphide.

Some were the prototypical Russian matryoshka dolls, a bandanaed figure with a roly-poly bottom.

You know, roly-polies, pill bugs -- gray, lotsa legs, designed to curl up and die?

Augustine, the roly-poly pill bugs busy in the rich soil at my feet, as I involuntarily imagined what Barbara had felt: she must have reached out with her hands into the air around her.

With her son Eliu, her gigantic lover, Claudio Garcia, and a roly-poly hillbilly mechanic named Marvin LaBlue, she lived in a mud-plastered railroad tie house situated on a hill overlooking the Body Shop and Pipe Queen, an enterprise inherited from her first husband, a charismatic hustler named Ray Mingleback, who had drowned on Hal-loween night, 1958, when his Rolls Royce dove off the north-south highway into the Rio Grande about twenty miles below Chamisaville.

Yorke gave us a capital dinner, with roast buffalo, a pair of ducks, a ragoo, and a roly-poly pudding.

It was a heavy sound, a dull sound, a sound that poured like sullen custard over the bright roly-poly pudding of the soul.

But his attention was still fixed on the travails of the tiny roly-poly creature.