He could hear the drawl of languid, half-sleepy voices, and, as he pushed farther to the eastward, saw a group of troopers lounging about a dying fire.

" "Though you've certainly added a perfume to the violet," remarked Mr. Frederic Heath, with that sweetly lingering accent familiarly called the drawl, as he looked at the hepaticas.

She dropped the drawl.

The hammer strokes ring cheery, The plane gives forth a crunching drawl, The rasping saw sounds weary.

Ain't you jest said men made you sort ofnervous?" He imitated the soft drawl of Dan with his last words and raised another yell of delight from the crowd.

" His voice was not quite so harshly nasal as those of the Middle West, but he had not picked up the ultra-English drawl and clipped-off consonants that so many Americans affect abroad and overdo.

He had shed his drawl like a garment.

" Willis affected a drawl, had his clothes made in London, and considered himself "deucedly English," although he sometimes forgot himself for a short time and dropped his mannerisms.

There followed a few moments of silence; then in his careless, unmusical drawl the man spoke.