drawlings

He grapples for words and ideas when he has to respond to impromptu questions. — drawlings

About Those Town-Hall Meetings… - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

I copied some of the poetry out and decorated it with scrolly drawlings and things.

4F Day! Four Questions for Friday SarahP 2010

I copied some of the poetry out and decorated it with scrolly drawlings and things.

Archive 2010-05-01 SarahP 2010

Maybe I shouldn't give you all of me in one big gulp so this is the end of the drawlings.

dream-shadow Diary Entry dream-shadow 2005

But you must excuse me, my insufficient young lecturer, if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncings, your humming and hawing, your ohing and ahing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.

Barchester Towers 2004

As soon as the pianist has asked the piano how it finds itself, and the piano has intimated that it is pretty well, but somewhat out of tune, a collateral fiddler and a violoncello brace up their respective nerves, compare notes, and when their drawlings and crookings are in unison, a third piece of music of indefinite duration, and as it seems to us all about nothing, begins.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

Henrietta continued in the vein of these assurances; and Carinthia's character was shooting lightnings through him, withering that of the woman who referred to his wife's good sense and her station; and certainly would not have betrayed herself by such drawlings if she had been very positive that Carinthia's disposition toward wealth and luxury resembled hers.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

Henrietta continued in the vein of these assurances; and Carinthia's character was shooting lightnings through him, withering that of the woman who referred to his wife's good sense and her station; and certainly would not have betrayed herself by such drawlings if she had been very positive that Carinthia's disposition toward wealth and luxury resembled hers.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Henrietta continued in the vein of these assurances; and Carinthia's character was shooting lightnings through him, withering that of the woman who referred to his wife's good sense and her station; and certainly would not have betrayed herself by such drawlings if she had been very positive that Carinthia's disposition toward wealth and luxury resembled hers.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

The little pauses and refined drawlings with which this speech was uttered, gave time for Gwendolen to go through the dream of a life.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849