Roberts
drawled his body to interposition between hostilities.
'Impossible, I think!' said Bella, with another drawl.
'Dear me!' drawled Bella, in a tone of mortification.
"No?"
drawled the dragonette; "it seems to me very babyish."
"A very nice arrangement," Da Souza
drawled with a devilish smile.
In a way, the article summed up the Arkansas paradox: A bunch of people with sturdy, Southern
drawls and ranchhand practicality going around changing the world.
"I know you didn't mean it when you blew us up," he
drawls at one point, exuding bemused resignation; "Modest Proposal" (shades of Jonathan Swift) finds him muttering, "Let's start making some sense today." Though Allison is in his early 80s, he still possesses the irreverence of a rookie.
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drawls.
Fields creates an amazing variety of voices for the numerous characters in this road novel modeled after The Canterbury Tales, including several Southern
drawls; and she flawlessly moves from voice to voice during conversations.
"You don't need to watch that much to get the idea of what's going on there," Kinnear
drawls. "A little goes an exceedingly long way."
"Truly,"
drawls the Duke in his single line, "this man wuz the son of Gahd."
But instead of the equal-opportunity, guttural imprecations of his previous band, Spencer
drawls back-forty non sequiturs ("Dig that ditch!") and James Brown-ish commands ("Play the blues, punk!").
Read the returns and listen to the
drawls of the nation's most prominent politicians--Clinton, Gore, Gramm, Gingrich, Armey, Lott--and it's pretty clear the South has come out on top.