towardly

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What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?…

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David

Sir G. With all my soul.—A towardly gentleman!

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

My hope springs out of three stems: your Honors naturall benignitie; your able employment of such servitours; and the towardly likeliehood of this Springall to do you honest service.

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur

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

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