rolies

Updated: May 5, 2025

'He's like one of Aunt Hannah's suet rolies, she said, after a minute, with a gleam of her white teeth. 'Seems as if some one had tied him in a cloth and boiled him that shape. Neither of them cared to go to bed. They sat up talking. David was mending, sorting, and pricing a number of old books he had bought for nothing at a country sale.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The History of David Grieve