Crossword-Solution: INDRAWN 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Soft then the voice of rooks from indrawn throat Thrice, four times, o'er repeated, and full oft On their high cradles, by some hidden joy Gladdened beyond their wont, in bustling throngs Among the leaves they riot; so sweet it is, When showers are spent, their own loved nests again And tender brood to visit.

How Florence too, in long abstracted fit Of soul-wrapt musing, for whole hours would sit; Nor even the power of music, friend, or book, Could chase her deep forgetfulness of look; And how, when questioned--with an indrawn sigh, In vague and far-off phrase, she made reply, And smiled and struggled to be gay and free, And then relapsed in dreaming reverie.

Arthur did not notice it, but I could hear the deep hiss of indrawn breath which is one of Van Helsing’s ways of betraying emotion.

Yes, it was Marie Antoinette--she walked with steady tread, She sauntered down the marble steps with proudly lifted head; And there were those among the crowd who watched with indrawn breath, To see a queen walk out with smiles to keep a tryst with death! I stood beside those marble steps just yesterday, and saw, A bride upon a soldier's arm--a poilu brave who wore A Croix de Guerre upon his breast--and oh, they smiled above The busy throng that hurried by, unconscious of their love.

The eyes, slow of movement and heavy-lidded, were almost expressionless under the shaggy, indrawn brows.