He is supposed to have landed on these drifting sands that perpetuate his name, and to have founded his first cell here, the oratory that still remains in much mutilated ruin among the towans of Perran.
After passing Navax Point the broad Bay of St Ives opens out, with a lighthouse at each horn, and here again begin the towans or sand-dunes.
The Godrevy, Upton and Phillack towans have moved inland from St Ives' Bay and engulfed the residence of the ancient kings of Cornwall at Riviere.
The billowy towans sweeping up from the beach appeared to him like an illimitable prairie on which buffaloes and bison might roam.
Granfa, who was present during the discussion of the itinerary, declared the towans must be visited first of all.
Inland the towans tumbled in endless irregularities of outline about a solitude equally complete.
The high road at the back of the towans crossed a stream, by a ford and a footbridge; and the travelling postman, if he had any letters for the Parsonage, would stop by the footbridge and blow a horn.
Mr. Raymond climbed the hill toward the towans with the carpenter's frail slung over his shoulder.
The building stood half a mile from the sea, surrounded by the rolling towans and rabbit burrows, and a few lichen-spotted tombstones slanting inland.
They made their way under the lee of the towans to escape the stinging sand.
Out on the towans the rabbits heard the sound, and ran scampering.
He was deep in this game when he heard a horn blown somewhere high on thetowans behind him.
The Towans occupy the ground on both sides of the estuary.
The hibernating snails were not only found in the stone hedges; they were also extraordinarily abundant among the sandhills or towansat Lelant and Phillack on the coast near St. Ives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
