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Wrapped in slick vocal layering and multi-tracked veneer, the disc is more upbeat than previous records and features an old-country twang.
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She stubbed her toe and managed to release the guitar from its holding and it twanged on the ground, waking the two very unstable-temperamental parents below.
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The twang of a guitar string resounded periodically, but never a song.
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But at least she's kept her nasal twang, eh?
The Sun
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By way of contrast, Mojo Box represents a return to form: a lean, dandy album of greasy stomps, twangy guitars, and good songs.
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The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
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At the very least you know that GRRM will be there and if you ply him with drinks and plunk his magic twanger, you just might be able to wrestle some info out of him.
Day 3: Filming at Doune Castle
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Her voice had a faint American or Canadian twang.
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Look at Mengelberg, look at Furtwängler, and look at the rest of the Mitteleuropa-trained composers in the past one hundred years.
Mengelberg's Mahler
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As he exhaled, Erik let his arrow fly with a sharp twang of the string, the sound echoed thirty times over as the rest of the cadets fired.
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Today's preprocessed Nashville pop music with fiddles and steel guitars and twangy vocals, UNCOOL!
Playing harsh with the field of music
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Her voice had a faint American or Canadian twang.
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A ringing twang interrupted the scene as a large piece of shrapnel ricocheted off a 500 - pounder in the bomb bay, causing me to momentarily slam the door shut.
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That the little curls of piggy rind would crunch but not twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite his training from speech therapists, a slight twang escaped Cutler's lips on that final word.
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The bow-string twanged, the arrow leaped upward, and Broken-Tooth, uttering a terrible scream, fell off the branch.
CHAPTER VII
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Her voice had a slight Australian twang.
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An old Indian merchant, or some such thing, seemed to me a better character — the Spaniard did nothing but stalk about and twangle his guitar, for the amusement of my Lady Binks, as I think.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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But for those who missed it all, I can tell you that the stewardesses were very hard-bodied, their girdles twanged satisfactorily when tweaked by hard-bodied men and they did have a lot of sex in exotic locations.
TV review: Garrow's Law; Come Fly With Me - the Story of Pan Am
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Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion.
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After all, those who twang guitars together are soon singing from the same hymn sheet.
Times, Sunday Times
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It features soulful vocals over sweeping violins and a twangy bassline.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I was in danger, they twanged unpleasantly inside me.
My Fair Succubi
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Just like me shelfy shelf at home and I got a terrible twang in my terrible stomach and I missed my dark slips.
Magic X
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He twanged his bow
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Even in the simple word ‘hello,’ I could hear the soft twang of her accent.
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The bow twanged and the arrow whistled through the air.
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her speech has a funny twang
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Does it twang your heartstrings?
Times, Sunday Times
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Following suit, the followers of Melhiril charged as well, swords swinging wildly, bows twanging, and the clashing of swords and shields.
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They associate it with twangy, hillbilly music and don't realise there are many different styles within the genre, " he said.
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The arrow dropped to the ground next to him, the bowstring twanging up in Cinaed's face, causing the swordsman-in-training to drop the weapon and stumble back, cursing vividly.
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Thinking of a satisfying bass guitar sound, a twang which makes the room vibrate but doesn't go through the ears at all.
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The Stretta Procedure: Lego Foosball
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He swung round to investigate, only to be greeted with a ‘twang’ and a sudden intense pain in his arm that knocked him to the ground.
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As I freewheeled and carefully negotiated the ruts, I enjoyed views of Wetwang, partially hidden in trees, and surrounded by all that cultivated land Sir Tatton was describing.
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Jeremy followed, dropping onto the elevator as Andy sat down to slide his legs down through the open hatch, and the groaning sound became a sharp twang.
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Both in Spain and southern France accompanying instruments struck with plectra or twanged with the fingers were adopted at a very early period, and the people of those parts attained to a high state of proficiency -- so much so indeed as to have rendered the cultivation of this description of music a national characteristic with them in the use of such instruments.
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
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It is not so cheerful, perhaps, as its predecessor in the same key; the heavy basses twanging in tenths like a contrabasso are intentionally monotone in effect.
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
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Sure enough, the echoing twang of a bowstring sounded.
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You could almost hear the good vibrations twanging in the air.
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The bed springs twanged and the wooden floor boards responded with a creak.
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The choking, glugging boiling water twanged against the hollow unplumbed tub and the brass bungle of piping smeared and juddered.
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But at least she's kept her nasal twang, eh?
The Sun
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Evidence from Wetwang revealed that this find featured five terrets, four of which would have been for the reins, and the researchers were keen to establish the function of the fifth.
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As a Minnesotan, her kind of nasally twang reminds me of a far northern MN accent -- which I also find very irritating.
Biden: Palin Must Condemn Ugly Slurs From Supporters
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He always accentuated his northern twang when he was up from university.
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The country twang isn't too country but the lovelorn lyrics are sharp and raw.
The Sun
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We paddled on in tense silence, waiting for more gunfire or perhaps the twang of a banjo, but they were not interested in us.
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- for the sake of one's ears, in mercy, stop that everlasting twangle of your old fiddle!
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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The bed springs twanged and the wooden floor boards responded with a creak.
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‘Please,’ interrupted the judge, kindly and old, a Southern twang in his voice.
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The arrow vibrated in the tree trunk, twanging, and in the sudden silence of the forest around them, Kieran could hear the sound of riders closing the distance.
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There is a delightfully odd, twangy soundtrack, which plays counterpoint to the otherworldly feel of the rest of the film.
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Is that the antique twang of an epigonion, or the sweet trill of the piccolo heckelphone?
Times, Sunday Times
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He twanged the guitar string/his braces.
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After all, those who twang guitars together are soon singing from the same hymn sheet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Featuring the talents of Cynthia Frazzini and Craig Aspen, The Believers' sound blends Americana rock with folk-country and a hillbilly twang.
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It's the warm, slow joy of the mariachi-tinged Stranded, the tick-tock twang of Blue As Your Blood or the pre-rock'n'roll balladry of Torch Song that come to define this album's charms, and very considerable those are too.
The Walkmen: Lisbon - review
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Its interaction with glitchery, such as on the opening folk guitar of otherwise electrolytic single "Bootstrap" or on the Italo-western twang of opener "Transient" (the rare attempt at this style within electronica that doesn't tumble Jenga-style into self-parody) where the cigarette burns of the John Ford reel meld with the acetate and celluloid to make Brakhage collage, is oddly interactive, rather than deteriorative.
PopMatters
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The series has many positive qualities, not least an assortment of strong characters, but it sure does twang away at those heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's sent through by Totti and, with only Perez to beat, allows the ball to twang off not one but two of his shins, allowing the keeper to clear for a corner.
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Besides, her voice had an ever-so-slight Southern lilt, harsh twangs polished smooth; it was the kind of accent that can make even a word like hard-on sound harmless and sweet as a mint julep drunk from a porch swing.
The Queen of Everything
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Furtwängler to have been acroteria (_Arch, Zeitung_, 1882, p. 336 ff.)
The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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And my bow twanged and sang in the covert, and the deer fell fast-stricken, and the warm meat was sweet to us, and she was mine there by the water - hole.
Chapter 21
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The high-spirited Next Time We Take Your Instruments recalled the threat made to a busking Räfven by German police; a fierce tambura lute-intro on Stortrappen dovetailed with trombone and twanging double bass.
Evening Standard - Home
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It disturbed my bibliophilist labors, and gave a twang of musty nausea even to the sweet scent of old binding-leather.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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The voice on the other end of the line is calm and steady, with an American twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the gentle twang of the lutes, the lively melody started.
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She's from Texas, and the words roll off her tongue with a distinctive elastic twang, softened by the years in New York.
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Meantime, Park has replaced the injured Giggs, who may have twanged a hamstring slightly.
Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United - as it happened
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The bushes rustled sharply, there were five twangs in unison and five arrows shot out of nowhere and flew at him.
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There is a laconic drawl, an ever so slight nasal twang to his voice.
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I added my American twang to the symphony of accents, and we whiled away a cheerful half hour in front of the TV.
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Joan and Sheldon heard the twanging thrum and saw Koogoo throw out his arms, at the same time dropping his rifle, stumble forward, and sink down on his hands and knees.
Chapter 24
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Problem is, this pushes Mandell's vaguely tenuous, aloof vocals up front, affected twangs, warbles and all.
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There is a laconic drawl, an ever so slight nasal twang to his voice.
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Tab Benoit, a bluesman from the Cajun town of Houma, La., whose Jazzfest set drew on the twang and two-step beat of swamp-pop, spoke about the determination of Louisianans to return: “You don’t see me wanting to move out of here because it ain’t safe and it ain’t convenient,” he said.
Jazzfest: “Thank God I Made It” - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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He twanged the guitar string
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The Magnetic Fields 'eighth album, in stores today, begins with a howling, surfy stormer of a song, its title and only lyrics, "Three-way!" repeated three times in three minutes, accompanying a fantastically distant piano roll fit neatly behind a twanging guitar line.
Magnetic Personality Disorder
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Or was it instantaneous, with the twang of Cupid's bow string, and - poof!
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But at least she's kept her nasal twang, eh?
The Sun
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She threw the knife into the thick carpet, the point of which stuck and twanged silently as Fearne's mother ran upstairs, screamed and called an ambulance.
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Celil was suddenly thrust back into reality from her daydream by the bellow of a war-horn, screeches and roars, and the twang of bowstrings.
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There was a faint twang, followed by a quiet whiz, as a crossbow bolt flew through the air and collided with a thump into the side of the vent.
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Screams echoed out as the branches twanged back, severely impairing the vision of many runners.
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The Magnetic Fields 'eighth album, in stores today, begins with a howling, surfy stormer of a song, its title and only lyrics, "Three-way!" repeated three times in three minutes, accompanying a fantastically distant piano roll fit neatly behind a twanging guitar line.
Magnetic Personality Disorder
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The arrow twanged away.
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His English had a distant American twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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She says the word "ornery" more than it should be used, and when she tells her dog to get down off the couch, the word "down" has a strong, country twang to it.
Scott Janssen: Chic-fil-A Ruined My Relationship
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Best described as the twang that rang throughout the world and originally performed by The Shadows in the sixties after Bert Lordan bashed it out on a ukulele, Apache has been defiled by jazz musicians as well as Moog-munting Danes.
Computerworld
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There is a twang in her voice redolent of the Hawkes Bay squattocracy which makes her
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
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At the same instant, before the boy could act, a hundred other bows twanged from all around the house.
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That coppery twang on the emergency cord that hangs tight in his gut.
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Just because you sing with the odd hiccup or twang a certain phrase doesn't mean you can say you're singing country music.
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The stern squatted down and the Bertram lunged forward, the monofilament line twanging tight.
CORMORANT
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She had a slight Australian twang.
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His English had a distant American twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has a sort of Australian twang to it and is in common with several other similar phrases, all with the same meaning: starve the bardies [bardies are grubs], stiffen the crows, spare the crow.
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They were too late, and bows twanged as arrows whistled through the air.
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That the little curls of piggy rind would crunch but not twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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These songs are infused with a hint of twangy menace, bubbling under but never exploding.
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His English had a distant American twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not everyone in Ohio speaks with the midwestern nasal twang.
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You can hear every pure delightful twang and warble of every guitar, gadulka, balalaika and harp and in a couple of tracks a clarinet cuts the melody with a compelling slice of romance.
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But what is good government against a twang on the heartstrings?
Times, Sunday Times
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We don't know a thing about this twanging and donging.
The Secret of Moon Castle
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As they arrived in Latham, the familiar, edgy electronic Seinfeld music was momentarily replaced by a hillbilly twang.
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Suddenly the twang of a bowstring rang out and the cloak fell to the floor.
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He twanged an arrow that missed the target.
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Lop-Ear, caught unawares, also hastily reversed, but did not win the protection of the trunk until after the Fire-Man had twanged the bow.
CHAPTER VII
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Bernhard lives in his castle Scharnstein (which is an allod), and holds the villages of Grünau and Viechtwang as fiefs from the abbey.
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‘Hello, Joel,’ he heard her say as the ball bounced off the metal rim with a twang.
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When those "Spring's delights" of which you melodiously twangle are a leetle more _en évidence_.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892
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She gestures to your bags, her American twang uncomfortably loud in the small area.
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After singing Alabama's "Feels So Right," McGraw was joined by the Warren Brothers (his pals Brad and Brett), and after a quick Taylor Swift joke -- the teen twanger launched her career with the single "Tim McGraw" -- the three men collaborated on a gorgeous, chill-inducing version of "If You're Reading This," about a fallen soldier's last words to his family.
Tim McGraw cranks up his country-casual charm at Jiffy Lube Live
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There was a faint twang, followed by a quiet whiz, as a crossbow bolt flew through the air and collided with a thump into the side of the vent.
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‘Beaucoup de vent’ sounds more like ‘beaucoup du vin’ and the twang gets more nasal the further south you go.
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Johnson came away from a film session with some raspiness to his Cajun twang.
USATODAY.com - Basketball - Golden State vs. Dallas
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It was wonderful to watch him come back to life, till at last he could say, with his dreadful Provençal twang, that he felt "_très biang_.
Tatterdemalion
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The bullets whistled past Ash's head, thumping into nearby ships with a pock-twang noise.
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He twanged an arrow that missed the target.
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It ends perfectly, with a satisfyingly decisive, koto-like twang.
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You'll have to ply me with booze and plunk my magic twanger, and we'll see.
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A few bullets twanged off of the dusty corner of a building a few paces behind her, and she sped up a little, taking another turn, and another, hoping to lose their trail.
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There's no doubt that keeping an old-style surf-twang instrumental rock combo fresh is hard work.
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She twanged the guitar strings.
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The distinct nasal twang of an ‘American’ accent echoes thought the plane.
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He still hadn't put his sheets on it, and the mattress twanged under his weight.
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Froghopping discreetly from soggy new wave to ecclesiastic country twang, Red Sparowes find a way to the beat tedium inherent to their genus - then ride it for so long that… are you paying attention?
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The male loudsong is a loud series of paired couplets, all notes having a distinctly twangy quality.
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime than the twingle-twangle of
The Letters of Robert Burns
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Something gave a loud discordant twang.
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He twanged the guitar string/his braces.
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And the younger sister took the lead, penning songs about her 2008 divorce from country twanger Charlie Robison.
Album review: Court Yard Hounds, "Court Yard Hounds"
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The difference this time is Indians are calling the shots, instead of just handing their sitars over to the Beatles to twang.
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He sighted his target, and released the string with a twang.
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The only restriction might well be the hip pocket nerve twanging as it graunches and scrapes past trees or over rocks, swallowing deeply from the fuel tank.
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It is replaced by the soft rustle of saris, the smells of incense and saffron, and the Eastern twang of sitars.
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A ringing twang interrupted the scene as a large piece of shrapnel ricocheted off a 500-pounder in the bomb bay, causing me to momentarily slam the door shut.
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He threw himself onto the ground as the meadow was filled with the twang of many bowstrings.
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The accents may be English, albeit with a twang, but the influences are Australian.
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What matter for the arrow-head, illegible stuff? give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over their rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst the anerithmon gelasma of the fish.
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
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She lifted her Stetson to a background of twanging country-and-western chords and shook her fringes.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The alien host, the spongy nebulae, the zip and twang of the photon torpedo, the bluster of the starship captain at his bridge — these, according to Hubbard, were not the idle tropes of pulp-fictioneers and drugged-up sci-fi hacks but the stuff of deepest prehistory, somber emanations from the memory of the species.
Lost In Space
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The stern squatted down and the Bertram lunged forward, the monofilament line twanging tight.
CORMORANT
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Maybe instead produce an interminable, twanging, overlong, repetitive, inaccessible and frankly irredeemable apology for a solo album.
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The string twanged as the arrow flew, striking the snow dragon in the eye.
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That coppery twang on the emergency cord that hangs tight in his gut.
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The co-founder of Edmonton's Old Reliable largely sticks to his twangy roots, cranking out a series of singalong ditties with subtle electronic flourishes that noodle just around the edges of each song.
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A pile of closed files was stacked to his left, and the junk-shop-recovered radio on a shelf across the room sung a treble-topped twangle of some piece or other of classical music.
The Art Thief
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But at least she's kept her nasal twang, eh?
The Sun
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From each berth some different description of noise was issuing; the Lubecker was snoring loudly, Baron R---- was twanging a guitar, Monsieur Robineau singing a barcarole, and every body was calling out as loud as he could for something or other.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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Frankly, what's the point in being super-rich if you can't just have a toot and a twang in the garden?
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Toss in a taste of backwoods twang and that's some fine vittles.
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Her voice had a faint American or Canadian twang.
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But at least she's kept her nasal twang, eh?
The Sun
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Bowstrings twanged and rifles cracked as the volley flew into the army.
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Is there a "tw -" word for feeling nauseous after consuming too much twitter news ... a "twangover"?
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The Stretta Procedure: Lego Foosball
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The bow twanged and the arrow whistled through the air.
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She's so high-strung you can hear her twanging.
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The musician twangs away on a three-stringed shamisen.
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a Jews-harp; that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; - these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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As they paddle, they hear the twang of bowstrings and arrows begin to fall around them.
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After all, those who twang guitars together are soon singing from the same hymn sheet.
Times, Sunday Times
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He always accentuated his northern twang when he was up from university.
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The bow twanged and the arrow whistled through the air.
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Dan was not much in the humour for tunes, but he said, "Ay, Joe, give us a one, man-alive," and Joe struck up with twangle and squeak.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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The oldest gunslinger still in town twanged a hamstring just before this particular high noon, leaving him no more than an outsider's chance of taking part.
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For Line of Fire, he sets up a jazzy shuffle on the drums while a lone guitar twangs thousands of feet below.
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It is replaced by the soft rustle of saris, the smells of incense and saffron, and the Eastern twang of sitars.
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As the story progresses through the twentieth century, so it acquires an American twang.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The voice on the other end of the line is calm and steady, with an American twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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Palmolive Snead twang.warner entrenching Ithacan colonials Middleton?
Think Progress » Southern Conference: Howell’s Agenda
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The King looked after him, with some wonder at this want of breeding, which, however, he imputed to his visitor’s insular education, and then again began to twangle his viol.
Anne of Geierstein
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That the little curls of piggy rind would crunch but not twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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To contend with this carnal orchestra, the religious world, having long ago rejected its Catholic Psalms as antiquated and unscientific, and finding its Puritan melodies sunk into faint jar and twangle from their native trumpet-tone, had nothing to oppose but the innocent, rather than religious, verses of the school recognised as that of the English
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Suddenly she heard, amidst all the noise, the twang of a bow.
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After a moment of tense silence, the bowstring twanged.
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I've seen people who do the half-second draw-twang, but I can't do that either.
I was wondering were I could buy a nice, sturdy, well built long bow or just a regular compound bow either will work but I want
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Ness sounds as hushed, gravelly, and desperate as always, singing over that ragged guitar twang.
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Someone was twanging a guitar in the next room.
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The bell above the door in the café twanged, and two figures walked in.
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With a twang of his tuning fork, he sends vibrations down the implements to the ear to clean them better.
Times, Sunday Times
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But at least she's kept her nasal twang, eh?
The Sun
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I'm absolutely certain that I'm not the only foreigner to have a twang of disappointment when foreigners waltz into "my" hole-in-the-wall noodle stall.
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The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
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The Indian middle classes are fast being Americanised, with the mid-Atlantic masala twang and the mobile telephone washing through the ranks of the rupee zillionaires on a tidal wave.
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His speech was so heavy with the flat twang of the Danes that it was hard to understand.
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Her voice had a faint American or Canadian twang.
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As the story progresses through the twentieth century, so it acquires an American twang.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A quick investigation reveals that a similar word, pengö (an onomatopoeic term for ringing or twanging), was the unit of currency in Hungary before the forint was introduced.
Data is data, or are they?
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His instrument (an old classical guitar that he calls "Trigger") is famous for the hole he has worn into its face by decades of picking, and its distinctive twang has the same kind of sonority as the sharp nasal sound of his voice.
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His singing and dancing are comparatively weak, and he speaks all of his lines with an undisguised Australian twang.
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But what do you do with a band like the Wellingtons that isn't twangy enough for country, or glossy enough for top-40, or tweeny enough for Disney?
Eric Williams: The Snap-Cracklin' Pop of the Wellingtons
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Implements less developed belong to a separate order of sound-producing contrivances, namely plectra, and may be described as permitting strumming by striking in place of twanging or twitching the strings.
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
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So, if you like your country-ish rock complete with slide guitars and a little twang, feel free to blast it out your car stereo this summer.
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They reappeared halfway over the Atlantic with an American twang.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the living-room upstairs came the twangy refrain of a country-and-western folksong.
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