twasome

Scottish jigs, and reels, and ‘twasome dances’, with a strathspey or hornpipe for interlude; and the want of grace on the part of the performers was amply supplied by truth of ear, vigour and decision of step, and the agility proper to the northern performers.

Redgauntlet 2008

The rest disperse by twasome and threesome through the waste, and meet me at the Trysting-pool.

The Black Dwarf 2004

And awa 'went the twasome, haup-jaup in their daffin',

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

The rest disperse by twasome and threesome through the waste, and meet me at the

The Black Dwarf 1898

I was sayin ', an' what sud I hear but a twasome toot-moot, as my auld auntie frae Ebberdeen wud hae ca'd it -- ae v'ice that o 'a man, an' the ither that o 'a wuman, for it's strange the differ even whan baith speyks their laichest!

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

'There were three of them set upon him: I brought the twasome, but wha was the third?

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

The rest disperse by twasome and threesome through the waste, and meet me at the

The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801

The dances were, of course, the Scottish jigs, and reels, and 'twasome dances', with a strathspey or hornpipe for interlude; and the want of grace on the part of the performers was amply supplied by truth of ear, vigour and decision of step, and the agility proper to the northern performers.

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

'There were three of them set upon him: I brought the twasome, but wha was the third?

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

'There were three of them set upon him: I brought the twasome, but wha was the third?

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801