towardly

Example Sentences

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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 Scholer of you.

From The Complete Angler 1653 by Walton, Izaak

He was as fond as most boys of the mythical tales, “and for that I was accounted to be a towardly boy.”

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

Euphues" himself, the author says:—"My hope springs out of three stems—your Honours' naturall benignitie; your able emploiment of such servitours; and the towardly like-lie-hood of this springall to do you honest service.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

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)