Citations:tois

French citations of tois

1926, Henry Head, Aphasia and Kindred Disorders of Speech, Cambridge University Press, volume I, part i, chapter ii: “Bouillaud to Broca”, page 24:
Asked, “How many years have you been at Bicêtre?” he replied, “Tois,” and raised eight fingers. “Have you any children?” “Oui”; “How many?” “Tois,” lifting four fingers. “How many boys?” “Tois,” lifting two fingers; “How many girls?” he again lifted two fingers. All these answers were exact. “Can you tell the time?” “Oui,” “What is it?” “Tois,” and he lifted ten fingers; it was in fact ten o’clock. When asked, “How old are you?” he did not lift his ten fingers eight times, and then add four, to make it eighty-four, as was expected; but he said “Tois,” first raising eight fingers and then four. As soon as he saw he was understood, he said, “Oui.”

ante 1400 (MS. 1410–1430), Geoffrey Chaucer (author), Frederick James Furnivall (editor), The Canterbury Tales (Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Gg. 4. 27; 1868 printing), lines B4,521–2 (page: Cambridge 515, six-text 297):
This Chauntecleer stood hye vp-on hise tois // Strechynge his neke & held his eyen clos