taws
Example Sentences
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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 Allen Wilson Porterfield
Clearly his Dominie had not abused the taws.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Ne'er use the taws when a gloom will do.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
He went back to "taws," and "lagged for goes," with the others.
From The Court of Boyville by Orson Lowell
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 Dorothy Canfield Fisher
