taws
Example Sentences
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This prince took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into the manners, religion, taws, government, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him the best account I was able.
From Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World by Thomas M. Balliet
From that moment he ruled them by his eye, the taws vanished.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
To prevent the loss of taws one of us was sent ahead to watch for their coming and listen for the faint thud of their fall, while the other three drove from the tee.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
"You deserve the taws about your back, sirrah, to forget my sacred office so far as to speak so," said the minister.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
He went back to "taws," and "lagged for goes," with the others.
From The Court of Boyville by Orson Lowell
