How To Use tawse In A Sentence
- He ran a long way, until finding that he had not been detected, he skirted a small wood, dug a hole in the soft moss, put in the "tawse," and covered them up. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
- Also known as a “split paddle,” a tawse is a wide leather strap split into strips at the end light to intense. Come Hither
- The use of the tawse, a then popular and widely accepted form of punishment in Scottish schools, did not infringe the European Convention.
- The conclusion was that the Court, without actually deciding whether the use of the tawse would contravene Art. 3, held that the threat of its use did not do so.
- The strips had been hardened in the fire, and the 'tawse' was a holy horror to the boys, who saw it often and were threatened with it sometimes, but who had felt it never. Despair's Last Journey
- It was a frosty morning, and ye waylaid the maister on his way to the school, and the tawse were nippier than ordinar 'that mornin'. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
- The Hootsmon has not shrunk from criticising the Scottish education system and - from time to time - has taken a tawse to its naked hurdies.
- The school deserves praise for its initiative, and it's a far better means of improving behaviour than thrashing unruly children with the tawse.
- The thong is the familiar "tawse" of schools north of the Border. Roman life in the days of Cicero
- A design variation on the tawse is a “devil’s hand” moderate to intense, which is a leather paddle cut to resemble a three-fingered hand. Come Hither