Their heads were not the heads of geese but of women artificially painted and with so-called taws, or marbles, for their eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

As is going back to taws and re-reading the oryginal.    From Wordnik.com.  [stats: the forbidden love « raincoaster] Reference

Plz tew nawt punt, kik, hit wif sportz ekqipmint, frow, pich, taws, or udurwaiz treet liek regulur bawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [HAREBALL - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown's Schooldays]

Come, Grainier, a little pity! be generous in thy turn; ’taws she that showed thee the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. Gringoire Has Several Bright Ideas in Succession in the Rue des Bernardins. Book X] Reference

He re-seated her, and taking the taws from her trembling hand, carried it himself to the tyrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

"You deserve the taws about your back, sirrah, to forget my sacred office so far as to speak so," said the minister.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Golfer] Reference

Sometimes the brothers and other relatives of the mutilated child would come in a body to the school, and flog the pedagogue with his own taws, until his back was lapped in blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Golfer] Reference

"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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines] Reference

Till they’ve kinks in their tringers and boils on their taws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

The voice declared, "Although a stranger to our planet, disy have obeyed our taws and aided one of our people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)] Reference

I lay about me with the taws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

Solider Aristotle played the taws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

I'll whip thee with the taws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference

Ne'er use the taws when a gloom will do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference

He taught -- and ne'er forget the "taws.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants] Reference

Your nuts and taws, or squander them at play.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference

And when for my fauts wi 'the taws I was paiket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852] Reference

"the taws.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money] Reference

"Hand me the taws.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference