| We laid up for the day on a towhead tolerable close to the left-hand bank. |
| Turn the page, and there, in fresh ginghams, would be mom, baking pies with one hand while patting her towhead with the other. |
| Still, I came to love his children, especially Max, a 5-year-old towhead who never obeyed his father. |
| The snag now lay to port, the towhead to starboard, and holding a straight course the Missouri Belle crept slowly between them. |
| Hancock flips an obnoxious neighborhood kid into the sky and, looking up now and then, carries on a conversation with Ray, only to put out an arm and catch the howling towhead as he falls to earth. |
| To the right of that was a towhead, a newly formed island of mud and sand partly awash. |
