Not Still*water," said Indiana, in a drawling voice.
Such a slow lot--and those guides with their drawling voices.
The smile, the gentle, drawling tone, clashed with the brutal inference.
His words of withering invective contrasted still more conspicuously with the drawling gentle tone in which they were spoken.
Miss Hobson took it," she went on in her cosy, drawling voice.
It consoled itself by drawling sarcasms at the city council which was not to blame, causing the fathers, as has been said, to seek back streets and figure perspiringly on the sinking fund and the appropriation for interest due.
Virginie read very slowly, with a dismal, drawling voice, through her nose, while Treze held Zeen's weak fingers closed round the candle.
I don't think much of the doctor's waterfall," Jack said to me, in his dry drawling way.
The doctor turned away to look at the great waterfall, evidently amused by Jack's dry drawling speech; and I sat and looked at my companion, while he looked at me, and spoke out so as to make me hear above the roar of the torrent.
She said in a drawling tone: "I was shelling beans.
The good woman, at once surprised and troubled, replied in herdrawling voice: 'My dear sir, what is it you say?
He ran on in drawling monologue about the weather conditions, and how much cooler it was in Clarkson than at the summer places which people foolishly sought at the expense of home comforts.
Western men are, he knew, much more tolerant of failure than Eastern men; but he was relieved to hear the banker drawling on with a comment on Clarkson, its commercial history and prospects.
It must have been, I suppose,' said the Aid, in a drawling manner.
He strolled out of the door, drawling a slow "good night" over his shoulder.
I trust you are convinced that resistance is useless, my dear Phantom," he declared in drawling tones.
She spoke through her nose, drawling every word, was of a cold temperament, could drink any amount of wine and liquor without being drunk, and used to tell scandalous anecdotes in a languid and tasteless way.
She recognized the drawling voice of the man in the tree, although she could not see his face clearly in the firelight.
The next moment she would have spurred the pinto up the hill; but a drawling voice within a yard of her spoke.
It was the same drawling voice that had come out of the darkness asking for food and a bed the evening Pratt Sanderson stopped at the Bar-T Ranch.
Possibly those were the days of the genesis of the "Oxford manner," that supercilious drawling affectation of superior sapience which characterises the sons of bourgeois families at Alma Mater.
I love to speak to you," she said, musically drawling her words.
O-o-o," a drawling cry came from the distance and ended like a wail.
The soft, drawling accents fell with a gentle sigh through the perfumed silence of the speaker's boudoir.
The soft, drawling voice, the sleepy smile, the careless good-will all came back, utterly transforming the man.
On one of these occasions Day leaned back in his chair and said in his drawling tones: “Bankes, Bankes, you remind me of the banks where the bees suck and with their murmuring make me sleep.
Because," he answered, with a drawling sneer, "you are like the rest of creation.
The drawlinginsolence of the words made Dot quiver all over.
And they repeated the oath after him in a broken, drawling chorus, stumbling over the formal, legal phraseology.
A window above him raised at length and a drawling voice, apparently overcome with sleep, called down: "What's up in Eldara?
Through the interims the rain crashed and volleyed on the roof above them; the cold spray whipped down on them through the cracks; the wind shook and rattled the crazy house; and the drawling voice of Nash went on and on.
He was constantly shaking hands or drawling casual orders, more like suggestions than commands.
