towardly
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My son Johnny was at the grammar school, and a towardly child.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
Mr, Spectator, I am the happy Father of a very towardly Son, in whom I do not only see my Life, but also my Manner of Life, renewed.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
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 John Bunyan
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 Lady Ann Bacon
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 Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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