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drawling
1. ‘Well, there was Mystery,’ the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, ‘–Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling–the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: HE taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils
2. 'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: He taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils
3. I turned back to the guys who looked like they were drawling at those girls
4. "Ye-ee-ssss?" she said, drawling it mock-warningly
5. "That's not quite accurate," said Rand drawling it out
6. yeah, sorry mate, thought I was in me old flyer there fer a sec!’ his drawling
7. ‘But with those,’ she said in a drawling way, remembering her lover’s averment, ‘who raise the bar
8. I stepped on down the cavern and turned a corner and stopped abruptly drawling in my breath in complete shock at what I saw
9. Scott arrived at this conclusion through the drawling, drifting manner of her next words, spoken with a mouth that was being dragged down the street on a leash just strong enough to reign the required syllables
10. In answer to any question, in his best humour, it was a drawling 'What do you say, child?' But if I demanded money for the house expences, which I put off
11. ' He uttered a drawling 'Hem!' and then with an arch look, added--'Master might have had his little frolics--but--Lord bless your heart!--men would be men while the world stands
12. She opened one that had obviously been often turned over, and read a portion in the drawling tone of a beginner; then laughed, and threw it from her
13. Presently Mr Belcher reached out a flabby white hand and, taking up one of the folded cards, he looked around upon the under-fed, ill-clad children with a large, sweet, benevolent, fatherly smile, and then in a drawling voice occasionally broken by explosions of flatulence, he said:
14. He wore the blue bag in the manner of my great-coat, and was strutting along the pavement towards me on the opposite side of the street, attended by a company of delighted young friends to whom he from time to time exclaimed, with a wave of his hand, "Don't know yah!" Words cannot state the amount of aggravation and injury wreaked upon me by Trabb's boy, when passing abreast of me, he pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair, stuck an arm akimbo, and smirked extravagantly by, wriggling his elbows and body, and drawling to his attendants, "Don't know yah, don't know yah, 'pon my soul don't know yah!" The disgrace attendant on his immediately afterwards taking to crowing and pursuing me across the bridge with crows, as from an exceedingly dejected fowl who had known me when I was a blacksmith, culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was, so to speak, ejected by it into the open country
15. He looked on them from his drawling eye
16. ‘See, now,’ said Katavasov, drawling his words from a habit acquired in the lecture-room, ‘what a capable fellow was our friend Konstantin Dmitrievitch
17. Kudzhitsky if there had been no Slavonic question, but that she loved Karenin for himself, for his lofty, uncomprehended soul, for the sweet—to her—high notes of his voice, for his drawling intonation, his weary eyes, his character, and his soft white hands with their swollen
18. Moving from group to group, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous
19. Heavens, didn’t they realize that if they hadn’t been silly enough to fire the shot that And the Charlestonians took so much upon themselves about Fort Sumter! Good started the war some other fools would have done it? Accustomed to the brisk voices of thought if she ever again heard voices that said “paams” for “palms” and “hoose” for upland Georgia, the drawling flat voices of the low country seemed affected to her
20. Her weapons of scorn, She was helpless before his calm smile and his drawling remarks, for she had never coldness and abuse blunted in her hands, for nothing she could say would shame him
21. “Good evening,” he said, in his drawling voice, as he removed his hat with a sweeping gesture
22. If! If! The soft drawling voices quickened with an old excitement as they talked in the when life was ever at high tide, recalling the fierce heat of their midsummer in this quiet darkness—infantryman, cavalryman, cannoneer, evoking memories of the days forlorn sunset of their winter
23. She wondered incuriously who it was and, when a man’s voice, resonant and drawling, rose above Pitty’s funereal whispering, she knew
24. night he carried her up the stairs, his hard fingers bruising her body, or the barbed Even the cynical coolness of the war days, the drunken madness that drove him the drawling words that she now realized had covered a bitter love
25. Mawmsey, who was slightly given to drawling
26. Then, Charlie would give his drawling opinion
27. Then Charlie would give his drawling opinion
28. Georgiana added to her “How d’ye do?” several commonplaces about my journey, the weather, and so on, uttered in rather a drawling tone: and accompanied by sundry side-glances that measured me from head to foot—now traversing the folds of my drab merino pelisse, and now lingering on the plain trimming of my cottage bonnet
29. I should not settle tamely down into being the forbearing party; I should assign you your share of labour, and compel you to accomplish it, or else it should be left undone: I should insist, also, on your keeping some of those drawling, half-insincere complaints hushed in your own breast
30. But truly, truly, it's not my fault, or only my fault a little bit," she said, daintily drawling the words "a little bit
31. He read in a drawling voice, cried out, spat, and threw himself about with wild and comic gestures
32. Isaiah Fomitch turned his back to the table, and just in front of the officer began to sing his hymn of triumph, gesticulating and drawling out certain syllables
33. " I listened to his prayer, uttered with regularity, in soft, rather drawling tones: "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon us