Twas basting hot young flesh that you enjoyed: I still can hear you smack your lips with relish, To see the blue weals rising, as you laid on, Until the tawse was bloody.
He stood thus for one awful moment, then motioning her aside with a sweep of his head, brought down the tawse upon the hand which Alec had continued to hold outstretched, with the vehemence of accumulated wrath.
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.
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.
He threw the tawse at Annie, half, let us suppose, in thoughtless cruelty, half in evil jest.
Ready to faint with pain and terror, she rose, pale as death, and staggered up to the master, carrying the tawse with something of the same horror she would have felt had it been a snake.
Dignity kept him in check; he did not even let the tawse speak for him.
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.
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.
The tawse had hung idle even for Paul for many and many a day.
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.
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.
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.
The day after the theft of the tawse was determined on, as soon as the pedagogue had stumped out of the school--he wore a wooden leg from the knee--Harry went boldly up to the desk and seized the tawse.
And that new tawse is a tickler, I can tell you," said Harry.
After the attack on the strawberries, in which Speug greatly distinguished himself, and Bulldog urged him on with encouraging words, they had tarts and lemonade in the house, where not a sign of cane or tawse could be found.
He has the t-tawse hung in the lobby so as to be handy.
Captain Campbell," said he, "it is not the tawse that ever put wisdom into a head like yon.
The boy is unco, the boy is a lusus naturo, that is all; as sharp as a needle when his interest is aroused, as absent as an idiot when it is not, and then no tawse or ferule will avail.
He never cared to have the tawse mentioned; it was an ally he felt ashamed of in his fight with ignorance and he used it rarely, though custom and the natural perverse-ness of youth made its presence necessary in his desk.
But I'd have liked that tawse some myself, for my wife's mighty keen on curios.
They had never dreamed a tawse could look so vulgar and forbidding as it looked when thus exposed to the eye of man on the king's highway.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tawse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
