towardly

Example Sentences

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We have presented the letters to those whom we came to seek, and so far matters have gone with us more towardly than I had expected.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the grammar-school, and a towardly child. 

From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

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

But it is surprising, in apt and towardly youth, how much there is to commend in the first essays.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William