taws
Example Sentences
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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 Vardon, Harry
He went back to "taws," and "lagged for goes," with the others.
From The Court of Boyville by Lowell, Orson
From that moment he ruled them by his eye, the taws vanished.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
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 Aitken, George A.
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
