taws
Example Sentences
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He went back to "taws," and "lagged for goes," with the others.
From The Court of Boyville by Orson Lowell
He may also strive to place his adversaries' taws within the inner ring, and to be careful in striking planets that they fall into the orbits where the forfeitures are small.
From The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin
He is the most stupid of all my mother's children: he knows nothing of his book: when he should mind that, he is hiding or hoarding his taws and marbles, or laying up farthings.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by George A. Aitken
"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
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
