DRAWL
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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DRAWL. A non-technical term (verb and noun) for
SPEECH in which words are drawn out, especially prolonging vowels and final syllables. The term is often pejorative, suggesting that a speaker is affected or lazy: ‘I never heard such a drawling-affecting rogue’ (Shakespeare,
The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2. 1, 1598). Some accents are regarded as marked by drawling:
a southern drawl (in the US). See
ACCENT,
STYLE.
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Mythology and missiology: a methodological approach to the pre-Victorian mission of the Serampore Trio. (William Carey, William Ward and Joshua Marshman)
Magazine article from: International Review of Mission; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Tragic and Untold Story of Mrs William Carey. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book...Introduction The bicentenary of William Carey's arrival in India (1793...a new era of historiography on William Carey and the mission at Serampore...
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William Carey University Named to Presidential Honor Roll for Community Service
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 2/9/2009; 700+ words
; William Carey University issued the following news...National and Community Service honored William Carey University today with a place on the...According to Dr. Tommy King, President, William Carey University's mission statement involves...
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William Carey University Earns Level 5 Status According to SACS
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 12/19/2008; 649 words
; William Carey University issued the following news release: Christmas came early for William Carey University. According to the Southern...than two years work which began when William Carey College became William Carey University...
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William Carey University building new Coast campus at Tradition.
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 12/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; William Carey University is building a new $15-million...Highway 605, two new four-lanes. William Carey president Dr. Tommy King recently unveiled...wellness and the arts. "The addition of William Carey University to the Tradition family is...
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William Carey University building new Coast campus at Tradition
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Business Journal; 12/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; William Carey University is building a new $15-million...Highway 605, two new four-lanes. William Carey president Dr. Tommy King recently unveiled...wellness and the arts. "The addition of William Carey University to the Tradition family is...
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WCU coming to Tradition.(Strictly Business)(William Carey University)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 5/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...Tradition Properties Inc. and William Carey University president Tommy King...cities of Biloxi and Gulfport. William Carey joins the ranks of Biloxi Regional...in the Tradition development. William Carey's board of trustees voted to...
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William Carey University New Orleans Campus Changing Lives with Community Service
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 12/17/2008; 679 words
; William Carey University issued the following news release: The William Carey University School of Nursing in New Orleans has already accumulated more...
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Alcorn State beats William Carey 97-92
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/6/2008; 436 words
; ...points as Alcorn State defeated William Carey in double overtime on Friday night...regulation, Alcorn State (1-6) and William Carey scored seven each in the first...period. The Braves then outscored William Carey, an NAIA team, 11-6 in the...
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William Carey, USM-Gulf Coast surge back to meet students needs.(After Katrina)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 8/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Mississippi (USM) Gulf Coast and William Carey University on the Coast, had...this year, and enrollment at William Carey this fall is expected to see a...safer territory farther inland. William Carey is building a campus in the Tradition...
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William Carey Announces New Biomedical Science Degree
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 3/13/2009; 396 words
; William Carey University issued the following news release: William Carey University will begin offering a master...biomedical science degree is part of William Carey University's School of Natural and...
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William Carey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
William Carey The English Baptist preacher William Carey (1761-1834), known as the father of modern Protestant...missions, was a pioneer of new-style evangelism in India. William Carey was born on Aug. 17, 1761, in a village in Northamptonshire...
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Carey, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Carey, William (1761–1834), Baptist missionary. Baptized as an Anglican...translation of the NT into Bengali (published 1801), and when Fort William College was opened in Calcutta, he was appointed professor of Sanskrit...
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Carey, Mathew (1760-1839)
Book article from: American Eras
...mail, but excluded magazines, Carey had to suspend publication. While Carey left the magazine business...Career. Between 1792 and 1799 Carey would do more than $300, 000...twenty-five hundred copies of William Guthrie’s A New...
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Peter Carey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Franklin Award in 1988. Although Carey's stories have been compared...style can also be found between Carey's books and the works of writers...James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, William Faulkner, Robbe-Grillet...and Graham Greene. Throughout Carey's writings there is a sense...
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Carey, Mathew
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Carey, Mathew (1760–1839), born...Hudibrastic Poem (1796), one of his attacks on William Cobbett; The Olive Branch (1814), a...forerunners of the work of his son Henry C. Carey. Among his many tracts and books, the...
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