"I dropped my toothpaste," Tom said crestfallenly."This pizza place is great!" Tom exclaimed saucily. "Did you say to zip up my sleeping bag or the door?" Tom asked inattentively."I decided to come back to the group," Tom rejoined."I know not which groceries to purchase," Tom said listlessly."I have no flowers," Tom said lackadaisically."I used to be a criminal pilot," he ex-plained con-descendingly."Where did all the carpet on the steps go?" asked Tom with a blank stare (stair)."You ever seen one this big?" Tom bragged cockily."I stole the gold," Tom confessed guiltily (giltily)."Careful with that chainsaw," Tom said offhandedly."I wish I drove a Scandinavian car," Tom sobbed ( Saabed)."We could have made a fortune canning pineapples," Tom groaned dolefully."Hurry up and get to the back of the ship!" Tom said sternly."The Battle of the Nile? A lot of fun!" said Lord Nelson disarmingly."I wonder if this radium is radioactive?" asked Marie curiously."They had to amputate them both at the ankles," said Tom defeatedly."I might as well be dead," Tom croaked."I unclogged the drain with a vacuum cleaner," said Tom succinctly."Can I go looking for the Grail again?" Tom requested."That's the last time I'll stick my arm in a lion's mouth," the lion-tamer said off-handedly."Pass me the shellfish," said Tom crabbily."Who left the toilet seat down?" Tom asked peevishly."I'll have a martini," said Tom, drily (dryly). Jump the fold and enjoy the Tom Swifties. Click the answer to find similar crossword clues. Enter the length or pattern for better results. The Crossword Solver finds answers to classic crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles. If you are new to Street Prophets please introduce yourself below in a comment. The Crossword Solver found 30 answers to 'How Tom Swifty might pray', 7 letters crossword clue. What is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind. Since many adverbs end in "ly" this kind of pun was originally called a Tom Swiftly, the archetypal example being "'We must hurry,' said Tom Swiftly." At some point, this kind of humor was called a Tom Swifty, and that name is now more prevalent. In this series, the young scientist hero underwent adventures involving rocket ships, ray-guns and other things he had invented.Ī stylistic idiosyncrasy of at least some books in this series was that the author, " Victor Appleton," went to great trouble to avoid repetition of the unadorned word "said" elegant variation used a different quotative verb, or modifying adverbial words or phrases. The name comes from the Tom Swift series of books (1910–present), similar in many ways to the better-known Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series, and, like them, produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
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