"Roiling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... round room walled by the old prison cells. Stabs of light shot through the gloom, thrusting into a roiling black mass which had erupted through one of the entrances and now held at bay one of the alien warriors. Three or four of the black creatures ringed the alien in, moving with speed that eluded the bolts of light ...
— Star Born • Andre Norton
... Jonas peered into the mind again, very gently, but the mad roiling of pain and memory there was too strong for him, ...
— Wizard • Laurence Mark Janifer (AKA Larry M. Harris)
... folk the recipient was radiant enough to all appearances, which was a tribute to her powers as an actress. Beneath the streams of her happiness coursed sombre undercurrents of distress and perplexity, roiling the waters of ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... heard a very small sneeze. Out of a rolling wall of still-roiling dust, Murgatroyd appeared forlornly. He was dust-covered, and draggled, and his tail drooped, and he sneezed again. He moved as if he could barely put one paw before another, but at the sight of Calhoun he sneezed yet again and said, "Chee!" in ...
— Pariah Planet • Murray Leinster
... Commission will assess the value, without appeal or arbitration, of the property and rights ceded under the Armistice, and under the Treaty,—roiling-stock, the mercantile marine, river craft, cattle, the Saar mines, the property in ceded territory for which credit is to be ...
— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes |
