drawn out

• “The Horned Pout, Pimelodus nebulosus, sometimes called Minister, from the peculiar squeaking noise it makes when drawn out of the water, is a dull and blundering fellow, and like the eel vespertinal in his habits, and fond of the mud.”

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

• “I can hear “be-NEV-olent” with the second syllable drawn out in a sticky sweet tone.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Attempts were also made to overawe them—for example, several chiefs were taken to Philadelphia to see the Continental battalions drawn out and reviewed by their commanders, “in order to give these savages,” wrote Joseph Hewes of North Carolina, “some idea of our strength and importance.””

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “In countless other ways, dolphins and whales could be said to have their ancient history written all over and through them, like vestiges of Roman roads drawn out in dead straight cart tracks and bridleways across the map of England.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

• “With a vicious twist, a freakish abruptness that was almost a bit of genius, the key changed here to F major; this new element, which developed out of the use of both pedals for the long drawn out second syllable of the word Luischen, had an indescribable, an unheard of effectiveness!”

  Loulou

• “My name sounds to my ears like a hiss, long drawn out and evocative of the serpent I have so lately seen carved into the door of the chapel below.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer

• “The cardinal point to bear in mind is that the placenta should be expelled from the uterus by a vis a tergo, not drawn out by a vis a fronte ....”

  Labor Among Primitive Peoples

• “The distinct enunciation of the doctrine that the placenta should be pressed and not drawn out of the uterus we owe to Credé and other German writers, but it is only of late years that this practice has become at all common.”

  Labor Among Primitive Peoples

• “According to Mr. Bulmer the Australians, when surprised, utter the exclamation korki, "and to do this the mouth is drawn out as if going to whistle.”

  The expression of the emotions in man and animals

• “This ceremony was drawn out and complicated by the fact that it involved, on the part of the Duchess and Lady Skiddaw, definite farewells, and pledges of speedy reunion in Paris, where they were to pause and replenish their wardrobes on the way to England.”

  Simon & Schuster: The House of Mirth

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