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  • She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate seminar in the drama, went "twosing," and joined half a dozen societies for the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture.

    Main Street 1920

  • She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate seminar in the drama, went "twosing," and joined half a dozen societies for the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • It was, in fact, the favorite "twosing" spot of Green Bay.

    Lazarre Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

  • Marie and Katarina brought young men to the peaks of hope in the "twosing" seat, and plunged them down to despair, quite in the American fashion.

    Lazarre Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

  • She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate seminar in the drama, went “twosing,” and joined half a dozen societies for the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture.

    Main Street 2004

  • A word from the university slang came into his mind - twosing - came into it with a new significance.

    Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

  • Good-looking in a soapy sort of way, but dull: Good dancer, agonizingly slow at a twosing.

    Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915

  • The place is full of them and everybody twosing, twosing!

    Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915

  • For out in Madison Square park the robins were hoppin 'busy around in the flower beds, couples were twosing confidential on the benches, lady typists were lunchin' off ice cream cones, and the Greek tray peddlers were sellin 'May flowers.

    Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

  • The knowledge that in many of those other cars parked along the roadway other couples were cozily twosing, and that not a girl among them but would have changed places with her, added materially to her enjoyment.

    Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

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