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Meanings of roily in English

(Of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence.

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Usage of roily in English
1
The roily, rushing water of the river would aid Chambriss' quest.
Star Hunter
2
How his roily thoughts would run clear; how the sediment would go downstream!
Locusts and Wild Honey
3
He drowned his motor finally in fording a roily stream and abandoned the car.
Flowing Gold
4
The water was not roily, but of a rich coffee-color, from the leachings of the woods.
Locusts and Wild Honey
5
And these Jordan waters prove chill and roily.
Quiet Talks about Jesus
6
His own thoughts were as that roily pool where he had ducked the old man in the darkness.
In Exile, and Other Stories
7
All over a certain belt of the country the rivers and streams are roily, and chafe their banks.
Winter Sunshine
8
There would have been a kedge anchor out astern, or some roily water downstream if they'd been turning the engine.
Aground
9
A week of hot sunshine had filled the Toba River bank full of roily water when Hollister breasted its current again.
The Hidden Places
10
It was somewhat high and roily, with occasional small bits of drift going by, but it was far from high enough to be dangerous.
Big city girl
11
In a little more than six hours we reached the Rio Puerco, and forded its roily, brackish current to a camping-place on the other side.
Captured by the Navajos
12
The river was gradually losing its clear colour, for the sand-bars were beginning to "work out," or break, making the water quite roily.
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
13
Then flow away, my sweety sap, And I will make you boily; Nor catch a wood man's hasty nap, For fear you should get roily.
The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna
14
Roily is built on a hill, or, rather, on a mound which overlooks a great stretch of prairie.
Original Short Stories — Volume 05
15
I will have it taken at once to Roily for the legal examination. And, turning to his deputy, he said:
Original Short Stories — Volume 03
16
"No; I need a buckler till all this roily water subsides and clears."
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Roily through the time