Apparently, the word tam in reference to Jacob aims to describe the very opposite traits. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
A'm leeve een Montan 'som'tam' -- som'tam 'een Canada. From Wordnik.com. [The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country] Reference
When struck, a traditional Chinese gong - properly called a tam-tam - produces. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien was very much taken with the "tam" as a trench cap. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Mebbe-so w'en de votin 'tam' com ''long de men lak' for hav 'Choteau. From Wordnik.com. [The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country] Reference
I mean, really. she can turn the word 'tam' into, like, TWO syllables. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
The tam was a dead giveaway. From Wordnik.com. [28 hours to Pynchon] Reference
He shook the hand of Endicott: "Som'tam 'mebbe-so you com' back, we tak 'de hont. From Wordnik.com. [The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country] Reference
A girl cannot crochet a tam-o'-shanter in a minute. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
Now the scent rose fulsome from my sweet wrinkled tam. From Wordnik.com. [A Paper that Changes Things] Reference
One could not fail to see the tam-o'-shanter very well. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
Potestne in tam diversis mentibus pax aut amicitia esse?. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
"Nil tam difficilest, quin quærende investigari possiet.". From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
In a qui tam action, the citizen filing suit is called a "relator". From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: ABC J'accuse MEP: There is no there there] Reference
"Just by getting a proper tam and stop being stubborn," Ruth told her. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
"Vhy don'dt yu try it ef yu tink it ees so tam easy?" was Jake's answer. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
It va esser tam simplic quam Occidental: in fact, it va esser Occidental. From Wordnik.com. [Headline] Reference
The weather had become cool and all the girls wore their tam-o'-shanters. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
Jacob, honored the third night, is characterized in Genesis as an "ish tam.". From Wordnik.com. [Levi Ben-Shmuel: The Festival of Sukkot: 7 Nights, 7 Guests, 7 Inspirational Ways of Seeing] Reference
Ruth knew that she had actually begun to crochet a baby blue tam-o'-shanter. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
"What are you going to do about that tam of yours, Heavy?" asked Ruth, slily. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
She's about thirty, wearing green surgical clothes and what looks like a tam. From Wordnik.com. [All Fur and Bones] Reference
De hull tam ting is a fraudt; no such a man as Bunjun was ever in Bedford yail. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
During the summer we faded a green tam-o'shanter so that it would not look too new. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Similar suits have been filed by the same plaintiff qui tam in Nevada and Tennessee. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Brown: Homeowners' Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof?] Reference
"Will you tell me, please, why you are wearing that tam-o'-shanter?" asked Miss Dexter. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
Oh, yes, indeed! the proprietor had tam-o'-shanters of just the required shade, baby blue. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
The pavement before the house was blocked with white aprons, sailor-hats and tam-o'-shanters. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The trouble over the tam-o'-shanter had become the most talked-of incident of the school term. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
In this matter of the tam-o'-shanter, for instance, it would be very difficult to help the girl. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
And in every store seeking trade from the college girls they found the baby blue tam-o'-shanters. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
The cadet cap is a blue "tam-o'-shanter" with the usual woolly bob of the same colour on the top. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
Gronlandiaeque, tam Ecclesiasticis quam politicis; a mundo cataclysmo, usque annum Christi MDCXII. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
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