When Tommy fell ill of scarlet fever she nursed him through his illness, and uttered no reproach to her husband when the twins took the disease.
Old Thomas Newcome would have liked to leave all his private fortune to his son Thomas, for the twins were only too well provided for, but he dared not, for fear of his wife, and he died, and poor Tom was only secretly forgiven.
These ladies, who had their full share of common sense, took care to keep the twinsin the background until such time as the Widow McCarty had become Mrs. Gann.
The Virginians, Madame Rachel Warrington's sons, inherited the finest blood and traditions, and the rightful king of England had not two more faithful little subjects than the young twins of Castlewood.
I'm going to have you and the Bingham twins and Mr. Peter.
Richard said when Joan had danced away to ask Granny if the three months' old Bingham twins could eat spring chicken.
And she said she was afraid there weren't any nightingales' tongues in the market, and if there were did I think the Bingham twins could eat them.
The highes' cotton picker gits a suit of clothes and all the women what had twins that year gits a outfittin' of clothes for the twins and a double, warm blanket.
Among the Bantu Kavirondo the mother of twins must remain in her hut for seven days.
The women are prolific and the birth of twins is common.
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Through an aged woman, with whom he had made friends when a captive, Jake Poddington managed to get word to the royal twins that he and the other captives would like to see them privately.
The royal twins had agreed to slip off at a certain signal, and await Tom and his party in the forest at the foot of a very large hill, that was a landmark for miles around.
The two giant twins laughed too, and they were immensely pleased to see their friends again, both talking at once and so fast that not even the circus man could catch what they said.
Think of your own safety; of my innocent twins now in their cradle, should you fall.
Dutch managed to get Holly Cross and the two Jersey twins into his scheme, and the four lads, after ascertaining that the proctor was busily engaged trying to bring order out of chaos in the freshmen ranks, made for Mr. Zane's room.
Well, the twins they knew when she said that, Huldy wa' n't talkin' much through her hat.
Them twins had an awfully narrow shave-- They nearly was killt, for they wouldn't behave!
Say, Roarer, did your sister's twinsin Texas have fits?
Roarer did not disclose that said twinswere almost as old as himself.
He dilated on various events in their careers, which he remembered hearing the aforesaid twins relate themselves.
No wonder we are all proud of them, of the twins as much as the rest, and more so perhaps.
Here also flourishes the Linnea Borealis, roseate bells, hanging like twinsfrom one stalk, downy and aromatic all round.
Not long after, the twins were christened at the meeting-house, a great crowd attending to witness the ceremony.
The twins hurried from school, and hurried through dinner, and in fact hurried with everything they did.
The twins were nearly broken-hearted at the very idea of it; for they had become as fond of Theodore as if he were a brother.
But this is just the sort of a gate that the twins entered when they arrived home.
But on this afternoon the twins were thinking of other things, and kept on to the bulb-gardens.
The twins were as interested as their American cousin in the sights of their capital city, and Wilhelmina wanted to know at once if there would be a chance of their seeing the queen.
Uncle Moses said so," replied both the twins together.
Illustration: PERCE AND THE TWINS ON THEIR WAY TO THE BEACH.
THE TWINS In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother, That folks got taking me for him, And each for one another.
Uncle Ike looked out the window and said, "Here comes Cobb's twins with the team.
Why, he polished off Cobb's twins one day in less than five minutes, both of 'em.
Uncle Ike and Cobb's twins went down stairs quickly; there was a jumble of voices, and then the party entered the house.
You see, there has been Robert Wood and 'Manuel Howe and Arthur Scates and Cobb's twins and Ben Bates and Sam Hill, but Samuel was the cutest one of the lot.
As he neared the Pettengill house he saw Cobb's twins and Hiram standing in front of the barn.
The latter had turned Miss Very over to the care of Mrs. Maxwell, and had got one of the twins to carry the young lady's trunk to her room, which was the one formerly occupied by Mandy.
When Ezekiel and Cobb's twins returned from West Eastborough, they said the air felt like snow.
He motioned Mr. Sawyer to take the second seat from his uncle on the right, while he took the first seat on the left, with Cobb's twins next to him.
The Cobb twins declared that without exception it was the best party that had ever been given at Mason's Corner, to their knowledge.
He knew that Cobb's twins would like to stay with him, and he would take them up to the Putnam house with him.
Possibly he thought he would be the first one at the table, but Cobb's twins were in their places when he entered the room.
Robert Wood and Cobb's twins had been assigned to the right of the centre aisle, while Abbott Smith, Benjamin Bates, and Emmanuel Howe had charge of the left side of the edifice.
A little farther again to the left is the temple of Castor and the spring of Juturna, lately excavated, where the Twins watered their steeds after the battle of the lake Regillus.
Doubtless for fancy articles huge prices might be demanded; Pliny tells us that Antony when triumvir bought two boys as twins for more than £800 apiece, who were no doubt intended for handsome pages, perhaps to please Cleopatra.
Never were such 'twinneous' twins as Hansanella, and it was ridiculous to waste two names on them, for there was not between them personality enough for one child.
They found Washington and the twins waiting for them at the gate-house with lanterns, as the avenue was very dark.
At the last moment, however, his terror of the twins prevented his leaving his room, and the little Duke slept in peace under the great feathered canopy in the Royal Bedchamber, and dreamed of Virginia.
Mrs. Otis clasped her passionately in her arms, the Duke smothered her with violent kisses, and the twins executed a wild war-dance round the group.
The twins lay in wait for him on several occasions, and strewed the passages with nutshells every night to the great annoyance of their parents and the servants, but it was of no avail.
Good evening; I will go and ask papa to get the twins an extra week's holiday.
The sound of approaching footsteps, however, made him hesitate in his fell purpose, so he contented himself with becoming faintly phosphorescent, and vanished with a deep churchyard groan, just as thetwins had come up to him.
It was a melancholy meal, as hardly any one spoke, and even the twins were awestruck and subdued, as they were very fond of their sister.
First you represent Mrs. Brown as taking her twins around to church to be christened.
Then I paid him, and he left with Butterwick's twins on his memorandum-book.
And he kept his word, for not until many years later did the Page twins learn the difference that he saw between them every time he looked at them.
Daphne occasionally joined them, much to Janet's delight, and many were the afternoons that they had spent together in the snuggery, a room that the twins had fitted up to suit their particular tastes at the top of the house.
The twins did not smile; they merely walked backed to their seats and went on studying.
It was not the last time that, without the aid of words, the Page twins were to understand and share each other's thoughts.
Even the tiny twins were comparatively shapely; all the other children had delicate, transparent skins, large eyes, and small colorless mouths.
Haddon Hall is to me like a dream of the past come true.
He says it makes him feel easier in his mind, on the whole.
Four or five of the bath-chair men came running across the street to know if anything had happened to the old party I was pulling, and he got out looking as ashamed as if he had been whipped by his wife.
All was over, and I returned to Jone with a heavy heart and faltering step.
They was taken through in squads of about fifty, with a man to lead them, which he did very much as if they was a drove of cattle.
As I had been the cause of bringing them together I thought I had a right to look at them a little while, as that would be the only reward I'd be likely to get, and so I did it.
I met them going past the McSorley house, and you know they're building a piece to it since the twins came.
I was scared to death we hadn't enough children to get the Gover'ment grant, and so I had to givetwins to the Steadmans twice, both pairs of school age.
There was quite a run on bottles before an hour, for the Hogan twins cornered the market by slipping around to the alley at the back of the store and securing the bottles that stood in a box in the back shed.
Then they came around to the front and sold them again, flags being the consideration every time, for the twins were loyal sons of the Dominion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: couple; group; pair
