But the noise of the argument had awakened the Humming-top, and he began to buzz and hum in such a Drony, drowsy fashion, that in sheer terror and dread, the Ball threw himself gallantly into the gap, and promised to tell the first story himself, on condition that he should be allowed to roll softly about the room for the rest of the evening.
"Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves"
Frances Freeling Broderip
As he passed the inner one, leading into the dwelling-room, he could hear his mother crooning a strange, Drony, old local ditty, as she put the little Jan to sleep.
"Jan of the Windmill"
Juliana Horatia Ewing
For those people he used frequently to raise contributions on his richer friends; and this, says he, is one of the thousand reasons which ought to restrain a man from Drony solitude and useless retirement.
"Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life"
Hesther Lynch Piozzi