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If she winna ease the thraws In my bosom swelling, Underneath the grass-green sod, Soon maun be my dwelling.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Maybe that thraws light on the money, maybe it doan't.

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden

For when a civil kiss I seek, She turns her head, and thraws her cheek, And for an hour she 'll hardly speak; Wha 'd no ca' her a gawkie?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

I'm in death's thraws aneath the sea: Thy weeping makes me sad in bliss, Sae Mary, weep nae mair for me!

From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Thr�′ward, Thr�′wart, obstinate; Thrawn, twisted: perverse.—Heads and thraws, lying beside each other, the head of the one by the feet of the other; In the dead thraw, in the agony of death.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various