(Of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence.
1The roily, rushing water of the river would aid Chambriss' quest.
2How his roily thoughts would run clear; how the sediment would go downstream!
3He drowned his motor finally in fording a roily stream and abandoned the car.
4The water was not roily, but of a rich coffee-color, from the leachings of the woods.
5And these Jordan waters prove chill and roily.
6His own thoughts were as that roily pool where he had ducked the old man in the darkness.
7All over a certain belt of the country the rivers and streams are roily, and chafe their banks.
8There would have been a kedge anchor out astern, or some roily water downstream if they'd been turning the engine.
9A week of hot sunshine had filled the Toba River bank full of roily water when Hollister breasted its current again.
10It was somewhat high and roily, with occasional small bits of drift going by, but it was far from high enough to be dangerous.
11In 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.
12The river was gradually losing its clear colour, for the sand-bars were beginning to "work out," or break, making the water quite roily.
13Then 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.
14Roily is built on a hill, or, rather, on a mound which overlooks a great stretch of prairie.
15I will have it taken at once to Roily for the legal examination. And, turning to his deputy, he said:
16"No; I need a buckler till all this roily water subsides and clears."