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Towzer

Towser \Tow"ser\ (tou"z[~e]r), n. [See Touse to pull about. ] A familiar name for a dog. [ Written also Towzer. ]

Usage examples of "towzer".

Flora asked for Towzer, who had been shut out, and Charley went out and invited him in.

After his hearty meal, Towzer made himself at home, and laid down before the fire with his shaggy head upon his paws, as if he had been used to high living from puppyhood.

Flora never admitted Towzer at the big gate, and he very soon learned to go round.

But then Ernest walked so very lame, which, considering that the teeth of a brute called Towzer had made a big hole in his calf, was not to be wondered at.

Everything went against the lad: he came home perfumed from the stables, whither he had been to pay his dog Towzer a visit--and whence he was going to take his friend out for an airing, when he met Miss Crawley and her wheezy Blenheim spaniel, which Towzer would have eaten up had not the Blenheim fled squealing to the protection of Miss Briggs, while the atrocious master of the bull-dog stood laughing at the horrible persecution.