taws

Example Sentences

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Ne'er use the taws when a gloom will do.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

In the marble season he was a plutocrat in taws and agates.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

Also there were three glass alleys, two agate taws and thirty-eight commies.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon

Their heads were not the heads of geese but of women artificially painted and with so-called taws, or marbles, for their eyes.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

Marbles are divided into "taws," or well-made strong marbles with which you shoot, and "clays," or the ordinary cheap colored marbles at which you aim and with which you pay your losses.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield