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Example sentences for "twa"

Lexicographically close words:
tuvo; tuyere; tuyeres; tuyo; tvam; twad; twaddle; twaddling; twae; twaine
  1. Syne twa three bars in safter key For days o' youthfu' love, When lasses a' to you an' me Were angels fae above.

  2. ARLES* For arles he gae me a kiss, An' twa ilka day was my fee; A bargain nae surely amiss, If paid where naebody could see.

  3. Nae doot o' that, sir, an' so we may manage to kill twa birds wi' ae stane.

  4. Afternei nam-er twa elanda to berch far sinum skepum, and hwanath hi leter utgvng vmb alle Fonysjar skepa and steda to birawane ther hi bigana kv.

  5. If these twa be not as well wadded as e'er I wadded twa these seven years, the deil and St. Andrew part them.

  6. See, here's twa straes; the langest gets the choice.

  7. Ye see it was just a queer clump o' a roun'-about heathen, waghlin' may be twa tons or thereby.

  8. He has bigged a bower beside the thorn, He has fenced it up wi' stane, And there within the Elmond wood, They twa has dwelt their lane.

  9. She's ta'en her harp intill her hand, To harp this twa asleep; And ay as she harped and as she sang, Full sairly did she weep.

  10. And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near; And a' the warld might ken right weel They were twa lovers dear.

  11. As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a maen; The tane into the t'ither did say, "Whaur shall we gang and dine the day?

  12. Than by there came twa gentlemen, At twelve o'clock at night, Whan they can see na ither house, And at the door they light.

  13. They twa hae biggit a bonny boat, And they hae set her to the sea; But a mile afore they reach'd the shore, Around them 'gan the red fire flee.

  14. If I was to leave my husband dear, And my twa babes also, O where is it ye would tak' me to, If I with thee should go?

  15. Up then rose fair Annet's father, Twa hours or it were day, And he has gane into the bower, Wherein fair Annet lay.

  16. Unto the yeitt thir twa pertly furth raid; 1020 The portar come with owt langar abaid.

  17. He maid Scrymiour still at the houss to ly, With twa thousand; and chargyt him forthi, That nayn suld chaip with lyff out off that sted, 1955 Fol.

  18. Wallace slew thre; by that his yemen wicht, The tothir twa derfly to dede thai dycht.

  19. The power than assemblyt thaim about; 155 Twa hundreth men that stalwart war and stout.

  20. A messynger Schyr Amar has gert pass On to Schyr Jhon, and sone a tryst has set; At Ruglyn kyrk thir twa to gydder met.

  21. The Sothroun socht rycht sadlye fra that stede Throu the South Ynch, and fand thair twa men dede.

  22. Thai trowit rycht weill he passit was that steid; For Longcastell and his twa men was deid.

  23. The wedow him gaiff part off siluer brycht; Twa of hyr sonnys, that worthi war and wycht.

  24. And thir war part past in his falowschip; Twa Wallace, was his kynnys men full ner, Craufurd, Kneland, was haldyn till him der.

  25. The tothir twa fled to thar hors agayne; He stekit him was last apon the playne.

  26. Wallace twa men amang the ost in went; Dissemblit weylle, that no man suld thaim ken, Rycht in affer, as thai war Inglissmen.

  27. Schyr Jhon Butler in to the forrest went 535 With twa hundreth, sor mowit in his entent; His fadris dede to wenge him giff he mocht, To Wallace sone with men of armyss socht.

  28. He canna get it wrought in abune twa days in the week at no rate whatever,' said Edward's fantastic conductor.

  29. Now, twa points of dubitation occur to me upon this topic.

  30. Between them twa was made a plot; They raise a wee before the cock, And wyliely they shot the lock, And fast to the bent are they gane.

  31. O London city is my own, An other citys twa or three, Coud loose me out o prison strong, An coud mantain a lady free.

  32. He grew canty, and she grew fain; But little did her auld minny ken What thir slee twa togither were say'n, When wooing they were sa thrang.

  33. She stude upon hir castle wa', And let twa bullets flee: She mist that bluidy butchers hart, And only raz'd his knee.

  34. There's twa gentlemen gaen up to him a wee while ago.

  35. I've seen twa or three maskins and mummins in my day, but confound me if ever I saw ane come up to ye!

  36. Between oorsels, my mistress is worth at least twa thousand.

  37. I'm amazingly well here, and cannot think of leaving these twa bonny lasses.

  38. There's twa chaps below has twa or three words to say to ye.

  39. She has a braw house here, and lives bien and warm, wi' twa servant lasses, and a man and a callant in the shop.

  40. Archie," he continued, "pick the ice-balls from the feet of those twa poor dogs.

  41. We twa have paddled in the burn Frae mornin' sun till dine.

  42. For twa lang years they occupied that house, but during that time something happened that caused grief amang the village bairns.

  43. Bot Maister Blayr, and als Schir Thomas Gray, Eftir Wallace thai lestit mony day, Thir twa knew best of gud Schir Wilyhamys deid, Fra sexteyn yer quhill nyne and twenty yeid.

  44. Thir twa gert me say that ane othir wyss; Till Maister Blayr we did sumpart off dispyss.

  45. May not a king's word serve ye for advancing your pitiful twa hundred pounds?

  46. I am blithe, though, that it's neither of the twa loons themselves.

  47. The twa iron carles yonder, at the kirk beside the Port, were just banging out sax o' the clock.

  48. But I will enlarge on this farther as we pass along, gin ye list to bid your twa lazy loons of porters there lift up your little kist between them, whilk ae true Scotsman might carry under his arm.

  49. And then the reird raise, and hadna these twa gentlemen helped me out of it, murdered I suld hae been, without remeid.

  50. Hark ye, Heriot, let the lad have twa hundred pounds to fit him out.

  51. Let me tell you, mistress, ye will soon make a toom pock-end of it in Lon'on, if you hire twa knaves to do the work of ane.

  52. A bird in the hand's worth twa fleeing by.

  53. Twa cats and ae mouse, twa mice in ae house, twa dogs and ae bane, ne'er will agree in ane.

  54. Put twa pennies in a purse, and they'll creep thegither.

  55. Ae hour in the morning is worth twa at night.

  56. He that has a bonnie wife needs mair than twa een.

  57. There's twa things in my mind, and that's the least o' them.

  58. There's twa enoughs, and ye hae got ane o' them.

  59. Pate disna fend on that alane; He can fell twa dogs wi' ae bane, While ither folk Must rest themselves content wi' ane, Nor farer trock.

  60. It would be a pity to hae spoilt twa houses wi' them.

  61. A spur in the head's worth twa in the heel.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    twas done; twas impossible; twas like; twas only; twas plain; twas said; twas time