towardly

Example Sentences

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Stow in his Annals, calleth him, a most valiant and towardly Gentleman.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley

Marry, and I am glad of it: I am like to have a towardly scholar of you.

From The Compleat Angler by Walton, Izaak

Docile and towardly during his seven- or nine-mile stage, he refused to perform more than his allotted task. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham

My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the grammar-school, and a towardly child. 

From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

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)