towardly
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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)
What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?…
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David
A thoughtful little face, that of a well-nurtured, towardly boy; lacking the poetry and spirituality of the portrait of eleven years later, where the long hair flows down upon the ruff.
From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard
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
Sir G. With all my soul.—A towardly gentleman!
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
