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thwaites

n. (plural of thwaite English)

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Thwaites may refer to:

  • Thwaites Brewery
  • Thwaites & Reed, oldest clockmakers in the world

Usage examples of "thwaites".

Thwaites had asked, and this question, according to Thwaites, had caused his father to pause and think for a few moments before he answered it.

We had not the slightest doubt that these things were saturated in the dreaded anaesthetic which, as Thwaites had many times pointed out to us, could put you to sleep for hours at a stretch.

I must therefore leave most of the details of suffering from the rigors of the north, starvation, and the Iroquois along the way to your memories, or to your fresh reading of Parkman, Winsor, Fiske, and Thwaites in English, or to Le Clercq, Lescarbot, Champlain, Charlevoix, Sagard, and others in French.

But when we know under what distracting and discouraging conditions even the priest wrote, we wonder, as Thwaites says, that anything whatever has been preserved in writing.