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Examples
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It was irksome to have to give up some of their old habits, such as tiswin drunks and wife-beating.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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The census taker at San Carlos in 1880 thought Geronimo a lazy, indolent creature, who spent his time in gambling, with an occasional ‘tiswin’ drunk.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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The census taker at San Carlos in 1880 thought Geronimo a lazy, indolent creature, who spent his time in gambling, with an occasional ‘tiswin’ drunk.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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Apparently the only native intoxicant was tiswin, a sort of mild beer fermented from corn by the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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How fearlessly he had stepped into the midst of that half-frenzied sextette, _tiswin_ drunk, and disarmed Kwonagietah and two of his fellow-revelers!
An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier Charles King 1888
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He turned his mare loose, and proceeded on foot to the _tiswin_ camp, where he heard later that the old woman had been shot and the girl 'lifted.'
Crooked Trails Frederic Remington 1885
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They ran down one of my own scouts in a _tiswin_ [An intoxicating beverage made of corn] camp, where he was carousing with other drinkers.
Crooked Trails Frederic Remington 1885
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