At first he didn't quite catch the softer drawl of these south-easterners.

He was a big friendly man who smiled and spoke in a soft southern drawl.

"It probably comes from not having my lesson at school and feeling guilty," he said in the soft drawl of his native Virginia.

Jean's voice lost a little of its habitual, soft drawl.

Then she heard that pleasant laugh again and the soft drawl of the English tongue.

She had one of those cigarette-lowered voices and a soft southern drawl.

Speaks in a soft drawl and has blue eyes.

When they stopped, quite close to him, he said in his soft drawl: "That was beautiful."

It was the sober Forrest, with the soft drawl and clear mind.

"I think you take your reading too seriously," she told him in an infuriatingly soft drawl.