Example Sentences

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“Say!” he was drawling, as he strode the saw-dusted floor, whacking his leggings with his riding crop, “what would you Johnnies do with a rotter that grossly maltreated your horse?”

From The Spoilers of the Valley by Watson, Robert

All the time that Neale was drawling out these phrases he was watching the old farmer's grim191 face keenly for some flicker of emotion.

From The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in by Hill, Grace Brooks

"Where I come from"—Dickie was drawling again—"folks don't deal so much in questions as they do here."

From Hidden Creek by Burt, Katharine Newlin

"Wasn't that the greatest," Tom was drawling to Viola, "about those folks riding in the police wagon."

From Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School by Penrose, Margaret

A girl in a silly hat was drawling into the transmitter.

From The Vehement Flame by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell