Upon this they carried him to a small chamber in the hold and tossed him down among a heap of groaning wounded, upon a cable made up into a rouleau, perhaps the hardest bed on which a sick man can lie.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In the meantime the King played on, taking no notice of anyone, his beaked nose dropping lower towards his chin as he lost one rouleau after another to Bassompierre.
"The Chevalier d'Auriac"
S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
So saying, I slipped into her hand a rouleau, it being the fifty louis I owed her.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt