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  • A roly-poly toy, tilting doll, tumbler or wobbly man is a toy that rights itself when pushed over.
  • EVERYONE knows Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. So letters sent to the roly-poly icon find their way to the small town of North Pole in Alaska, including those simply addressed to Santa.
  • When she cooked rabbit stew, or a lovely jam roly-poly in iron pots, the windows steamed up while I turned the fan for the open fire.
  • An old lady with a roly-poly figure waddled her way over to me and gave me a friendly smile.
  • Bangers and mash and roly-poly pudding were on the menu and prizes were presented by Mayor, Councillor Barbara Shone for the most authentic costumes.
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  • Dylan was a "healthy, chunky, roly-poly boy," said his aunt, Amy Compton. Fairfax man sentenced to 8 years in son's death
  • Little Augie lounged on a couch in the apartment of George White, a roly-poly former New York cop who had busted him several times but kept in friendly contact with the mobster over the years. Wild Bill Donovan
  • This guy up here is a very close relative of the roly-poly, only it lives in the deep sea along the ocean floor.
  • Was it Diana who had started with that roly-poly little doughball of hers? Archive 2007-10-01
  • This could have been played seriously as in a caper film and worked much better than the roly-poly actor stumbling around trying to pull off the job for comic effect.
  • Molly was six years old; a plump, roly-poly little girl with long, crimpy golden hair and great blue eyes. Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories
  • With Phys Ed cut from public school curriculum in favor of computer class, physical activity among today's roly-poly kids is down.
  • Dom DeLuise, who spiced up such movies as "Blazing Saddles," "Silent Movie" and "The Cannonball Run" with his manic delivery and roly-poly persona, has died, his son's publicist told CNN. Dom DeLuise -- 1933-2009
  • Rick was getting out of the shotgun seat and a roly-poly man with glasses was getting out of the driver's seat.
  • First we popped in on a roly-poly Alsatian farm wife and watched her brewing outrageously smelly Munster cheese to the accompaniment of tub-thumping Bavarian music.
  • But the roly-poly, smiling relative of Mrs Tenney did not look like a man who was not to be trusted. THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
  • With an 80 percent approval rating after eight years in office, the bearded, roly-poly former union leader who oozes charisma is everywhere, virtually assuring victory for his handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff. Riding coattails of popular Brazilian president, former radical expected to win
  • Formerly roly-poly pudding was boiled in a pudding cloth; but the skill of enclosing a pudding of this shape in a cloth has now mostly been lost.
  • The payoff was when roly-poly Mr. Hill tells abs-of-steel Mr. Worthington to chill while he goes solo on the bad guys. Is It Too Late to Become a Gamer Nerd?
  • Roll the boiled egg down Astroturf knoll" and "the Baga bronze roly-poly" are two of my works in progress. The Cube: Grace Dent's TV OD
  • Inevitably, her presence is in danger of usurping the traditional dame; but, since the roly-poly Mr Potts is also the show's writer, he ensures he gets a fair slice of the action. Dick Whittington - review
  • The work of the unrecognized dramaturgist who concealed himself under the pseudonym of Roly-Poly. Yama: the pit
  • When the door opened a small, roly-poly faced man wearing spectacles walked in smoking a pipe. COVER STORY
  • Morros, who made his first public bow at a news conference in Washington on August 12, turned out to be a balding, roly-poly former musician, whose ostensible claim to fame was having composed “The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers.” A Covert Affair
  • A short distance behind him a roly-poly faced man limped unsteadily. COVER STORY
  • You might think Ana at Pumpkin Pie Bungalow would go with pumpkin pie, but no: she made a Torta de Laranja, an orange-based rolled pudding with the name cutely translated to Orange Roly-Poly. Is My Blog Burning #14: Hot Orange on Orange Action!!
  • Despite the copious amounts they can pack away, roly-poly types are less common than lanky or athletic builds, sometimes with the equine features of their symbol.
  • Played by two women, their portrayal of the huffy, roly-poly cartoon-like Russians was very amusing.
  • Although he was slender and spare with silver wire-rimmed glasses, there was something about him that reminded Sharon of a roly-poly Santa Claus. Western Man
  • They will be cooking chicken rogan josh followed by apple and cinnamon roly-poly in the final.
  • _malapropos_; for instance, she called out, to a little fat, stupid, roly-poly girl, to whom Miss Benson was busy explaining the meaning of the word quadruped, Ruth
  • Although he was slender and spare with silver wire-rimmed glasses, there was something about him that reminded Sharon of a roly-poly Santa Claus. Western Man
  • The list of puddings included deep pan apple pie, jam roly-poly and treacle sponge.
  • This guy up here is a very close relative of the roly-poly, only it lives in the deep sea along the ocean floor.
  • Despite the copious amounts they can pack away, roly-poly types are less common than lanky or athletic builds, sometimes with the equine features of their symbol.
  • She is the mother of three roly-poly, jolly children, and the wife of a roly-poly, not-so-jolly butcher.
  • The roly-poly, laughing baby who, come to think of it, looks remarkably like a little Buddha.
  • Everything was cooked in the one utensil; the square of bacon, amounting to little more than a taste each; cabbage, or other green vegetables, in one net, potatoes in another, and the roly-poly swathed in a cloth.
  • The others were all middle-aged roly-poly bearded guys.

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