O they hae fought for twae lang hours; When twae lang hours were come and gane, 120 The sweat drapp'd fast frae aff them baith, But a drap of blude could not be seen.
O were your son a lad like mine, And learn'd some books that he could read, 10 They might hae been twae brethren bauld, And they might hae bragged the Border side.
O they hae fought for twae lang hours; When twae lang hours were come and gane, The sweat drapped fast frae aff them baith, But a drap of blude could not be seen.
He struck her head frae her fair body, And dead for grief he fell: And there were twae mair sangs in heaven, And twae mair sauls in hell.
He showed me twae accoonts, yin for fifty pounds an' anither for sixty-five, that have been lyin' oot for mair than a year.
She put twae months in here, an' then she went away on her ain.
There was a burn ran by oor door an' twae muckle stanes by the side o' it, and Alec and me used to sit there and crack--and crack.
But sune I gaed to my bed, being heavy wi' sleep, for I had traivelled for twae days.
I doubt there's been a shoor up the muirs, and a shoor there means twaemair feet o' water in the Clachlands.
What can a thing like you wi' a lang neb and twae legs like stilts ken about the next warld?
Odd, I just locket them up in my room and sent the lassie for twae o' the police, and just gie'd the men ower to their chairge, and I thocht I wad come and ask you what I should do.
I put Sanders in his bed, honest man, abouttwae o'clock i' the morning, and syne Clovenclaws and me gaed at it till daylicht.
And these are twae gentlefolk, whose names are no convenient to be mentioned here, for hillsides hae ears.
I wish ye may gie your cousin twae inches o' steel in his vitals the morn.
The herd o' Powmood tellt me, and I got twae 'oors start o't and cam off here what I could rin.
Nane, save twae drunk Ayr skippers and a Glesca packman, unless your honour is comin' to keep them company.
It was clear the Captain had nae mind o' me, for he lookit twae or three times my way, and never changed his face.
So he gangs cannily back and brings anither man to look at me; and the twae thocht for a while, and then each grippit an airm and after a gey wammlin' I got oot.
Ay, four passed on horses about midday or maybe a wee thing after it, twae stoot fellows, and a braw-clad gentleman and a bonny young leddy.
O' a' the insolent scoondrels I ever met, thae twae are the foremost.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
