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- adverb With a
twanging sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I enter with a servant carrying a prayer carpet, encounter the stare of 300 pair of eyes, belonging to parallel rows of squatters, recite the customary two-bow prayer in honor of the mosque, placing sword and rosary before me, and then, taking up a Koran, read the Cow Chapter (No. 18.) loud and twangingly.
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He said twangingly, "Ten minutes past nine, Miss Melville!"
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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` ` Nay, on my faith, '' said the King, ` ` I like these rattling rolling Alexandrines --- methinks they come more twangingly off to the music than that briefer measure. ''
The Talisman 1894
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I enter with a servant carrying a prayer carpet, encounter the stare of 300 pair of eyes, belonging to parallel rows of squatters, recite the customary two-bow prayer in honor of the mosque, placing sword and rosary before me, and then, taking up a Koran, read the Cow Chapter (No. 18.) loud and twangingly.
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Methinks they come more twangingly off to the music than that briefer measure.”
The Talisman 2008
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