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单词 tawse
例句 tawse
As my English readers may not know what a “tawse” is, I herewith give them a recipe for making one. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z
By my troth, sir," said the stranger, when the schoolmaster had concluded, "it's a pity that such a thing as tawse was not in use outside the school as well as inside. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15
—And, as he speaks, he flings his tawse over to the corner where his desk stands. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11
The master recompensed my supposed contumacy with a sharp cut athwart the ears with his tawse; and again demanding the spelling of the word, I yet again spelt it as at first. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education.
The bright face suddenly fell, one could never aspire to be a hero until one had braved the master's tawse. The Silver Maple
There was a consultation one day as to who should steal the tawse. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z
Like some of the masters in the Old High School,—such cruelty dates back more than thirty years,—a ferule, or a pair of tawse kept Jacko to his work. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
I dinna think that e'er I had to raise the tawse to Sandy in my life. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11
Occasionally, I believe, Mac will enter the room, seize a wee mite who is speaking instead of working, and give him or her a scud with the tawse. A Dominie in Doubt
Outside the door he paused, weighing the chances of returning without the weapon; the master's tawse had been removed the night before, and he might put off the day of judgment until the judge collapsed. The Silver Maple
The dominie went straight to the fire, and with the poker discovered the almost shapeless cinders of his pet tawse! Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z
Even Robin and Jack had been in their day afraid of the mistress and her tawse. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
There was no answer, and he fell to again; but Paul turned and caught his arm, and after an ineffectual struggle, the old man dropped the tawse and walked into the kitchen. Despair's Last Journey
"And they answered: 'Please, sir, give him the tawse'?" A Dominie in Doubt
Captain Campbell," said he, "it is not the tawse that ever put wisdom into a head like yon. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
He would no more think of teaching a class without the tawse in his hand, than a huntsman would of entering the kennels without his whip. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z
"Neither intemperance nor old age hae, in gout or rheumatic, an agony to compare wi' a weel-laid-on whack of the tawse, on a part that for manners shall be nameless." Confessions of an Etonian
The tawse had hung idle even for Paul for many and many a day. Despair's Last Journey
When you force a child to attend to a lesson for fear of the tawse, you merely engage the least important part of his mind—the conscious. A Dominie in Doubt
When Annie descended from her hateful eminence, just before the final prayer, it was with a deeper sense of degradation than any violence of the tawse on her poor little hands could have produced. Alec Forbes of Howglen
In his hand he bore a long piece of a bridle rein, and this he fashioned into a tawse in sight of the whole school. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z
He ran a long way, until finding that he had not been detected, he skirted a small wood, dug a hole in the soft moss, put in the "tawse," and covered them up. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
The strips had been hardened in the fire, and the 'tawse 'was a holy horror to the boys, who saw it often and were threatened with it sometimes, but who had felt it never. Despair's Last Journey
But before the end of the month, at the mere mention of Tommy's name, Mr. Cathro turned red in the face, and the fingers of his laying-on hand would clutch an imaginary pair of tawse. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
He threw the tawse at Annie, half, let us suppose, in thoughtless cruelty, half in evil jest. Alec Forbes of Howglen
“And that new tawse is a tickler, I can tell you,” said Harry. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z
There now," declared Mr. Clapper, flinging down the "tawse" upon the table, panting from his exertions and wiping his brow, "I shall leave you for a time until you decide to speak. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
They heard the swish, swish, swish of the tawse, and not another sound but hard breathing for a full minute; then Paul began to groan, and then to shriek. Despair's Last Journey
Dignity kept him in check; he did not even let the tawse speak for him. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
But as he turned Alec bounded to his feet, his face glowing, and his eyes flashing, and getting round in front, sprang at the master's throat, just as the tawse was descending. Alec Forbes of Howglen
Then your tawse is complete, or will be so as soon as you have heated the ends for a short time in the fire to harden them. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z
"An' what did ye do wi' the tawse, son?" she enquired, her dark eyes showing pride in the revolt of her laddie. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
The thong is the familiar "tawse" of schools north of the Border. Roman life in the days of Cicero
Miss Ailie favored the cane in preference to tawse, which, "often flap round your neck as yon are about to bring them down." Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
Mr Malison made no allusion whatever to the events of Monday, and things went on as usual in the school, with just one exception: for a whole week the tawse did not make its appearance. Alec Forbes of Howglen
No real boy who had been a Roman school but knew what it was to have ears pinched and to take his punishment on his hands with the cane or the tawse. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
Tommy had behaved splendidly to him, and called him his dear preceptor, and yet the Dominie still itched to be at him with the tawse as of old. Tommy and Grizel
Now and then a class came up and did some task, and at times a boy got the tawse for his negligence, but never a girl. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
That classic instrument of discipline, the tawse, was in use at every hour of the day, girls as well as boys receiving barbarous punishment under the eyes of their class-mates. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
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