taws

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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

Ne'er use the taws when a gloom will do.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Clearly his Dominie had not abused the taws.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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 Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Steele, Richard, Sir