1 "Well, when she gets married, I mean," his wife's drawl came from behind him.
2 His voice was oddly pleasant to the ear, the well-modulated voice of a gentleman, resonant and overlaid with the flat slow drawl of the Charlestonian.
3 His drawl was caressing and his hands slid up her bare arms, warm strong hands.
4 He went on talking quietly and as his drawl fell pleasantly on her ears, some of the color faded from her down-tucked face.
5 He looked as calm as though he were discussing the weather, and his smooth drawl fell on her ears with no particular emphasis.
6 "As choice a collection of mules in horse harness as you could group together," said Rhett, his voice going into a soft drawl.
7 His voice still held a remnant of its wonted cool drawl but beneath the words she could feel violence fighting its way to the surface, violence as cruel as the crack of a whip.
8 The tilt of his head was full of character; his drawl was admirably vicious.
9 Its drawl was an echo of the quays of Dublin given back by a bleak decaying seaport, its energy an echo of the sacred eloquence of Dublin given back flatly by a Wicklow pulpit.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 10 Moving from group to group, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous.
11 "I'd like to learn it," replied his companion, a hint of buried laughter in his flat drawling voice.
12 She was helpless before his calm smile and his drawling remarks, for she had never before met anyone who was so completely impregnable.
13 "Good evening," he said, in his drawling voice, as he removed his hat with a sweeping gesture.
14 His drawling voice gibed in her ears.
15 She wondered incuriously who it was and, when a man's voice, resonant and drawling, rose above Pitty's funereal whispering, she knew.