towardly
Example Sentences
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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
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
Marry, and I am glad of it: I am like to have a towardly scholar of you.
From The Compleat Angler by Walton, Izaak
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)
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
