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Example sentences for "thrawn"

Lexicographically close words:
thrate; thrated; thravel; thraw; thrawed; thray; thre; thread; threadbare; threaded
  1. It's plain by her thrawn look when you speak to her about her mother that she has no affection even for her.

  2. Very well, then, you thrawn tid, but at any rate I'll send in a woman to sleep with you.

  3. Thrawn Janet which, with most of the tales in The Merry Men, was written at Pitlochry, appeared in Cornhill in 1880.

  4. The Cornhills came; I made Miss Ferrier read us Thrawn Janet, and was quite bowled over by my own works.

  5. Of Thrawn Janet, which I like very much myself, you say nothing, thus uttering volumes; but it is plain that people cannot always agree.

  6. Thrawn Janet' is off to Stephen, but as it is all in Scotch he cannot take it, I know.

  7. We have now Thrawn Janet (with Stephen), proof to-day.

  8. Crockett A Doctor of the Old School Ian Maclaren Wandering Willie's Tale Sir Walter Scott The Glenmutchkin Railway Professor Aytoun Thrawn Janet R.

  9. They a' said the gale wad sink her, If it wasn't seun thrawn overboard.

  10. He held out his hand to Alec, and said feebly, "Bantam, I thocht ye had yer neck thrawn or this time.

  11. Gin that thrawn wife wad hae but gien me a drappy o' whusky, I wad hae been a' richt.

  12. A man out of the sea Will o' the Mill Markheim Thrawn Janet Olalla The Treasure of Franchard i.

  13. Thrawn Janet is off to Stephen, but as it is all in Scotch he cannot take it, I know.

  14. Thrawn Janet and the Body-Snatchers were the only two of the set completed under their original titles: The Wreck of the Susanna contained, I think, the germ of The Merry Men.

  15. But ye'll mind Hornem, the sherry-officer wi' the thrawn shouther?

  16. Morton's just been talking to me from Thrawn Island," he said abruptly.

  17. There was much to talk about on Thrawn Island today.

  18. It was close to Thrawn Island, on the very brink of the Luzon Deep, that incredible submarine chasm in which the entire Himalayan chain could be sunk without showing a single pinnacle above the surface.

  19. We believe that something else makes the deep-sea fish come up into the Thrawn Island lagoon, don't we?

  20. The bolide was not white-hot, then, as when it passed over Thrawn Island.

  21. What he had to say was of vast importance, and Thrawn Island shared in his achievement.

  22. It was close to midnight when Nick bobbed belowdecks and came up with a report that they'd been picked up by the Thrawn Island radar and were proceeding exactly on course.

  23. It appeared that the most important event in history, as history was viewed on Thrawn Island, had taken place the night before.

  24. First he traced the steep descent from the flanks of the submarine mountain whose tip was Thrawn Island.

  25. Instead of reaching Thrawn Island shortly after sunset, then, the Esperance was back above the place where the dredge had been dropped and the bathyscaphe wrecked.

  26. We'll get to Thrawn Island after sunset," repeated Davis.

  27. Late in the afternoon Deirdre found occasion to talk to Terry about Thrawn Island.

  28. There was a mention of Thrawn Island as being on the very edge of the Deep.

  29. But now the head of the Thrawn Island staff had computed the place and time of arrival of a meteoric mass from space!

  30. And the guy on Thrawn Island said 'Hooray' and then explained that he said that because he couldn't think of anything that fitted the idea of something biting holes in three-inch steel.

  31. Dinna be the first in the Glen tae anger the doctor,' a' said; but Peter's that thrawn when his birse is up that ye micht as weel speak tae a wall.

  32. You're a thrawn limmer, that's what you are.

  33. He had the name of a thrawn man when sober, but pretty at the pipes at both times, and he came marching down the glen blowing gloriously, as if he had the clan of Campbell at his heels.

  34. I've never seed 'e afeared or shaken 'fore the thrawn o' the Most High in your life.

  35. As Purdie said: "I could hae thrawn mine off the head o' a scaur, and if she had strucken a whinstane rock she wad hae been nae mair blunted than if I had thrawn her on a haystalk.

  36. The dark shade extends to the skin as well as to the heart in the man in black in Stevenson's Thrawn Janet, for he exercises a weird power over his vassal, the old servant, and terrifies even the minister.

  37. He knew better how to dale wi' they ill-thrawn paupers!

  38. It was just the thrawn nature of the people about here that brought it on themselves," said the Little Red Dwarf, sullenly.

  39. It is a common belief in Scotland that the devil is a black man, as may also be seen in Robert Louis Stevenson's story "Thrawn Janet.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrawn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.