towardly

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

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

Mr, Spectator, I am the happy Father of a very towardly Son, in whom I do not only see my Life, but also my Manner of Life, renewed.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph