Their heads were not the heads of geese but of women artificially painted and with so-called taws, or marbles, for their eyes. ❋ Jakob Wassermann (1903)
The master's "taws" were a wholesome deterrent of persistent or mistaken trapping; and, in addition, the trapped boys sometimes rectified matters at the back of the school at the play-hour, when fists became a high court of appeal and review. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Plz tew nawt punt, kik, hit wif sportz ekqipmint, frow, pich, taws, or udurwaiz treet liek regulur bawl. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As is going back to taws and re-reading the oryginal. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Each of them had given him some little present of the best that he had, and his small private box was full of peg-taps, white marbles (called "alley-taws" in the Vale), screws, birds 'eggs, whip-cord, jews-harps, and other miscellaneous boys' wealth. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
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. ❋ William Martin (N/A)
If I had seen our good Bishop White playing at taws, I could not have been more overcome, and I dare say my face may have shown it, for, glancing at me, he said demurely, "Thee has seen in thy lifetime how hard it is to get rid of what thee liked in thy days of boyhood." ❋ Various (N/A)
Come, Grainier, a little pity! be generous in thy turn; taws she that showed thee the way. ❋ Unknown (1917)
"And we make taws and whips out of his thick hide to correct little boys, if they have too much to say sometimes," remarked Fil's father, who winked at me, showing that his words were more severe than were his intentions or acts. ❋ John Stuart Thomson (1909)
Indeed, bearing in mind the date of it, and the very active and zealous part played by rod and taws in those days – in educational establishments dedicated to little girls hardly less than in those dedicated to their brothers – we may feel certain that it was crossed by a good many discomforts, which in maturer years we should be apt to describe as tolerably full-grown sufferings. ❋ Unknown (1905)
But in legitimate play we often got a 3 at these fifty-yard holes, and with our home-made clubs, our little white taws, our lack of knowledge, and our physical feebleness all taken into consideration, I say we have often done less creditable things since then. ❋ Harry Vardon (1903)
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. ❋ Harry Vardon (1903)
We began to carry more and more for the golfers who came to Grouville; we found or were given real balls that took the place of the taws, and then a damaged club occasionally came our way, and was repaired and brought into our own service. ❋ Harry Vardon (1903)
Forthwith the reputation of the maker of this club went up by leaps and bounds, and he was petitioned by others to make clubs for them, a heavy price in taws and marbles being offered for the service. ❋ Harry Vardon (1903)
Also there were three glass alleys, two agate taws and thirty-eight commies. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
Hence some evolve a special faculty for money-making and, as schoolboys, will be expert traders of alley-taws, jack-knives, toffee and all sorts of kickshaws. ❋ 1864-1929 Sepharial (1896)
"You deserve the taws about your back, sirrah, to forget my sacred office so far as to speak so," said the minister. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
Matthew, "and mortify yer fatherly bosom for the good of the only soul the Almighty has geàn to yer charge, and mind the auld saying, 'Nivver use the taws when a gloom will do the turn.'" ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
The boy's mother didn't worry very much about the youngster, but the father had spells when he took the matter to the Lord in prayer, and afterward, growing impatient of an answer, fell to and used the taws without mercy. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
Halifax for those who preferred the private to the public schools to send their boys for a year or two to a dame's school as a sort of easy introduction to school life; and in the very same street as that in which the Lloyds lived there was such a school where two rather gaunt and grim old-maid sisters aided one another in the application of primer and taws. ❋ Joseph Finnemore (1881)
