Captain Brady was a black man of about forty-five with a thick southern drawl.

"Tell me how you took them, soldier," he said in a drawl almost as thick as Mutt's.

He remembers the guard shaking an angry finger in his face, telling him in a thick drawl that he would see him later that night.

"I said," repeated the thick drawl, "I've been waiting for you."

- which sounds particularly bizarre when filtered through a thick, West Texas drawl, something like "crahmany."

"I played on Coach Rake's first team in 1958," he began in a squeaky voice with a thick drawl.

"There's been nothing serious," said one security guard in a leather jacket, who declined to identify himself but whose thick drawl betrayed his Southern roots.

Raney is slim and folksy, with a thick drawl that clashes with his well-tailored blue suit.

She smiled, enjoying the slow, thick drawl that somehow implied briskness.

There was a long, tense silence, and then the man in the doorway said, "Howdy," in a thick western drawl.