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His sermons, it must be confessed, were not very instructive, suggestive, or eloquent, were, in fact, without point, delivered in a drawling monotone; but then his hearers were not used to oratorical displays or learned treatises in the pulpit, and were quite satisfied with the glorious liturgy, if well intoned, and pious chants from surpliced boys, if it happened to be a church rich and venerable in which they worshipped.
What's wrong, Carter?" she called. "There's a little dog in the road, Miss Bobby," said Carter slowly and distinctly, as he always spoke. Bobby had once declared that she did not believe a fire would shake Carter from his drawling speech. "A puppy, I guess you'd call it. I'll have to move it to one side before we can drive past, because it is in the middle of the road." Bobby leaned out to look.
The Nils Holgersson that went away in the spring had a heavy, slow gait, a drawling speech, and sleepy eyes. The one that had come back was lithe and alert, ready of speech, and had eyes that sparkled and danced. He had a confident bearing that commanded respect, little as he was. Although he himself did not look happy, he inspired happiness in others. "Moo!" bellowed Mayrose.
He'd have had Falstaff playing all day at that Tearsheet outfit. And the Prince would have beat him." "The Prince had the brains," said I. "Brains?" "Well, didn't he?" "I neveh thought to notice. Like as not he did." "And Falstaff didn't, I suppose?" "Oh, yes, seh! Falstaff could have played whist." "I suppose you know what you're talking about; I don't," said I, for he was drawling again.
His look hinted, "You're worried, my dear," but his voice ventured nothing beyond comfortable drawling stories to which she had only, from the depth of her gloomy brooding, to nod mechanically. She got a great deal of satisfaction and horror out of watching two traveling-men after dinner.
'I won't have them now, she answered. 'I shall connect them with you, and hate them. 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. 'And listen, she continued, provokingly, commencing a verse of an old ballad in the same fashion.
Mrs. Scattergood was a small blond woman, high voiced, precise in manner, very positive in her statements which she delivered in a drawling tone, humourless, inquisitive about petty affairs, the sort of "good woman" with whom no fault can be found, but who drives men to crime. Mrs. Morrell we know.
"You you look a trifle tired, young man," he said then. "Are you going far?" The boy touched his lips delicately with the point of his tongue. His gravity more than matched that of his questioner. "Air air thet the city?" The words were soft of accent and a little drawling; there was an accompanying gesture of one thumb thrown backward over a thin shoulder.
There was a buggy drawn up close to the step, and a man was trying to lift Lois out. Mrs. Field burst out in a great wail. "Oh, Lois! Lois! She's dead she's dead!" "No, she ain't dead," replied the man, in a drawling, jocular tone. "She's worth a dozen dead ones ain't you, Lois? I found her layin' down side of the road kind of tuckered out, that's all, and I thought I'd give her a lift.
Why, the text is quite opposed to DOZINESS! But what of this, if the preacher be addicted to drawling, the weather unobligingly sultry, and you yourself have gradually been dwindling from an uncongenial state of wakefulness into a sleepy calm? 'Tis too much for beldame Nature, believe me!
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