You would have heard Arthur subduing his twang and unburring the "r.
As he did so he heard the remarkably well imitated twang of a bowstring, and his imagination supplied his own interpretation to the sound passing his ear.
Then he stiffened and reached convulsively toward his holster, for the unmistakable twang of a bowstring sounded from the bushes above his head.
But he spoke with that Cornish-Yankee accent she accepted as the natural twang among the miners.
We were just going to have it,' she replied, with the same curious little vibration in her voice, like the twang of a string.
He outdid her a thousand times in coarse language, and yet that cold twang in her voice tortured him with shame that he stamped down in bullying and in becoming more violent in his own speech.
With common stroke their bow-strings' twang Sounded death to that fated band.
Then a night-hawk swerved past with a hum of wings like the twang of a harp string.
Only the twang of the night hawk's wing hummed through the stillness; and the distracted tread no longer paced the Mission Parlor.
Twang sat down amid immense cheers; at the conclusion of which, Mr. Peter P.
Twang would retract certain words derogatory to the state represented by Peter P.
The cockney twang of her voice struck un-musically on Katharine's ear, and she murmured some sort of ungracious reply and turned to rummage in the box for letters.
What impressed her most was thetwang of the girls' voices.
And as he passed from the edge of the wood, all the trees seemed to twang and creak, or cracked loudly, parting perhaps at some dear nerve where sap and beauty would no longer course.
The first place I ever struck in which the dollar is not all-powerful," he said, with his Yankee twang and pleasant laugh.
I was thinking of the glory of having such ancestors," said Pratt, and Mr Tempest noticed that his Yankee twang and mode of expressing himself had quite disappeared.
The frosty air then resounded with the twang, twang, twang of his horn, and hounds began drawing up from all quarters, just as sportsmen cast up at a meet from no one knows where.
The red-men say that here she walked A thousand moons ago; They never raise the war-whoop here, And never twang the bow.
He lifts it up; the drops that hang On the smooth surface glide away: He tries the string, no sharper twang Was ever heard on battle-day.
Lines of colored lights in pink and lemon break out like air-flowers along upper stories of tea-houses, from whose interiors come the strumming of biwa and the twang of samisen.
A twang from the orchestra recalled her, as the curtain was looped back for the Miyako Odori, the "Dance of the Capital.
The sound of the string's twang and the rattle of the bone plectrum drowned the sweetness of the note.
From a downstair room there came the twang of cousin Sadako's koto, a kind of zither instrument, upon which she played interminable melancholy sonatas of liquid, detached notes, like desultory thoughts against a background of silence.
She answered to the peculiar, reedy twang in his penetrating voice.
For a moment he thought he heard the metallic twang of a stringed instrument in the Mission garden beyond his own, and remembered his contiguity to the church with a stir of defiance.
Casey lay back on a cowboy's rolled bed with his knees crossed, his hands clasped behind his thinning hair, and smoked and watched the first pale stars come out while he listened to the pleasant twang of banjos in the tuning.
When it was over to the last twang of a banjo string, Casey took off his hat, emptied into it what silver he had in his pockets and set the hat in the fireglow.
It is positively touching to see old Colonel Patterson subduing his twang and shutting the lid down on his box of comic stories.
Her mother had pulled the string too tight, and Sylvia's ears were full of the ugly twang of its snapping.
He had grown so accustomed to the high, raucoustwang of the men of these wilds that it came as a surprise to him.
War have I seen," was the curt reply, and there was a twang as a bow was strung.
