towardly

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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

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

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

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

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