towardly

Example Sentences

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Marry, and I am glad of it: I am like to have a towardly Scholer of you.

From The Complete Angler 1653 by Walton, Izaak

His eldest Son is a Child of a very towardly Disposition, and as much as the Father loves him, I dare say he will never be a Knave to improve his Fortune.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

It is a world to see, how well-favouredly and how towardly touching religion these men agree with the fathers of whom they use to vaunt that they be their own good. 

From The Apology of the Church of England by Bacon, Ann, Lady

Marry, and I am glad of it: I am like to have a towardly scholar of you.

From The Compleat Angler by Walton, Izaak

Yea, I much fear that there have been many towardly lads put out by their parents to such masters, that have quite undone them as to the next world.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John