Taw

Accordingly, my father, as I called Taw-ga-we-ninne, loaded the pistol and gave it to me, saying, 'Go, my son, and if you kill anything with this, you shall immediately have a gun and learn to hunt.'

The True Story Book Andrew Lang 1878

The Taw, the Torridge, the Tamar, and the Tavy, all comprise some form of the same syllable, "Taw"; and "Tamar" is a corruption of "Taw-meer," which Westcote takes to mean the river-boundary, "Taw" occurring in the names of the four principal rivers

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

But, according to Westcote -- who is, for all his discursiveness, no bad authority -- the Britons and the Saxons came to loggerheads; for the government being Saxon, and the laws and the language, the poor Britons could neither hear nor make themselves understood, and so took arms against the settlers, and were by them driven "beyond the river now called Taw-meer" (_i. e.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

But the river was, notwithstanding, called Taw, for we find (as I am informed by a friend1

Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina O. M. McPherson 1915

He might have met gypsies who had spoken to that Romani patriarch Abram Wood; he might have told us the origin of the mysterious Ingrams, for one of whom he was himself mistaken; {0z5} he might have learned from Black Ellen some of the three hundred folk-tales with which she is credited; he might have sat at the feet of that fairy witch Alabina the _Meleni_, or have described 'Taw' as a girl in her teens.

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

I grew up in Taunton, which in "British" is pretty much phonetic but in Bostonian is a very harshly-accented "Taw - ` n" (this caused problems and a very amused bartender when I tried to order a Taunton Ale in Oxford!).

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She seeks a burdensome book known as The Megatome, a sacred relic protected by a deathless spectre known as The Gogolithic Mass who lurks in the horror-haunted darkness beneath the forbidden peak of Mingi Taw.

Mike Ragogna: Still Prince's Cinderella: A Conversation with Sheila E., Plus Chats with Manchester Orchestra and Jim Guthrie, and Weerd Science's Audio Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011

She seeks a burdensome book known as The Megatome, a sacred relic protected by a deathless spectre known as The Gogolithic Mass who lurks in the horror-haunted darkness beneath the forbidden peak of Mingi Taw.

Mike Ragogna: Still Prince's Cinderella: A Conversation with Sheila E., Plus Chats with Manchester Orchestra and Jim Guthrie, and Weerd Science's Audio Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011

Although Barack Obama still expressed concerns over Burma's record on human rights, Hillary Clinton's trip to Nay Pyi Taw and Rangoon this week, the first visit to Burma by a U.S. Secretary of State in over a half a century, will definitely open a new chapter.

Jean-François Julliard: Is There a Flicker of Progress for Freedom of Information in Burma? Jean-François Julliard 2011

It might not be for someone who likes utility, but many of the recipes have cute names and the chapters have even cuter ones, such as “For Whom the Ice Cream Bell Tolls” and “I Tawt I Taw A Pudding Tat.”

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