Crossword clues for towser
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Towser \Tow"ser\ (tou"z[~e]r), n. [See Touse to pull about. ] A familiar name for a dog. [ Written also Towzer. ]
Wikipedia
Towser is the creation of children's writer and illustrator Tony Ross about a clever dog called Towser. The books were published by Anderson Press and was later adapted into a children's television show.
The show is narrated by Roy Kinnear.
All 26 episodes of the show are available on various videos.
Usage examples of "towser".
While he waited, he spent each day shuffling rhythmically around the entrance of the operations tent, making boisterous wisecracks to everybody who came by and jocosely calling Sergeant Towser a lousy son of a bitch every time Sergeant Towser popped out of the orderly room.
The character of Towser in this tale has been cited on many occasions as inconsistent with the essential dignity of our race.
Yet, while Towser may be distasteful to certain squeamish readers, he serves well as a foil for the human in the story.
It was Towser coming back from the kitchen, where he had gone to see his friend, the cook.
He waited for Miss Stanley, listening to Towser chewing half-heartedly on the bone.
Waiting for Towser, Fowler flexed the muscles of his body, amazed at the smooth, sleek strength he found.
The lock in the side of the dome opened and Towser came tumbling out-at least he thought it must be Towser.
As if the thing that was Towser had reached out and for a moment sat within his brain.
He skidded to a stop beside Towser where the waterfall broke into a glittering rainbow of many hundred colours.
He caught one last, fragmentary thought from Towser and then there was only darkness.
Having him lying around all day annoyed Yossarian so much that he had gone to the orderly room several times to complain to Sergeant Towser, who refused to admit that the dead man even existed, which, of course, he no longer did.
It was still more frustrating to try to appeal directly to Major Major, the long and bony squadron commander, who looked a little bit like Henry Fonda in distress and went jumping out the window of his office each time Yossarian bullied his way past Sergeant Towser to speak to him about it.
Sergeant Towser several times a day to ask if the orders sending them home had come in.
They were waiting for the orders sending them home to safety to return from Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters in Italy, and while they waited they had nothing to do but worry and bite their nails and find their way solemnly to Sergeant Towser several times a day to ask if the order sending them home to safety had come.
Hungry Joe had finished flying his first combat tour of duty when twenty-five missions were all that were necessary for him to pack his bags, write happy letters home and begin hounding Sergeant Towser humorously for the arrival of the orders rotating him back to the States.