towardly
Example Sentences
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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
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
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)
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)
My son Johnny was at the grammar school, and a towardly child.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
