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He knew his control was not equal to the task; he would betray himself; the rôle was too exacting.

General Neill, who came later and assumed the rôle of magistrate, showed neither pity nor mercy.

In the Dutch Walewein alone, so far as I know, is his rôle definitely that of the deliverer.

When the raindrops coalesce on the surface of the earth, the rôle of what we may call land water begins.

Somehow or other the maternal rôle, which had been so suddenly thrown upon Georgina, had become not ungrateful to her.