“Well, well. Two spitfire scratchcats here, have we? A taste of hard labor’ll cure your temper, I trow, and if it doesn’t, well, there’s another cat you’ll meet, name of nine-tails. But there’s other cures for other cats, aren’t there, my sweet pussy?”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Was in a bush, that no man might him see,
For sore afeard of his death was he.
Nothing ne knew he that it was Arcite;
God wot he would have trowed it full lite.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems .
trow is used in Canterbury Tales 71 times and is sometimes seen in 18th and 19th century literature