towardly
Example Sentences
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My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of towardly parts for her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her baby.
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Stow in his Annals, calleth him, a most valiant and towardly Gentleman.
From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by William Riley Parker
My son Johnny was at the grammar school, and a towardly child.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
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 Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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 Richard Garnett
