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
Yea, I much fear that there have been many towardly lads put out by their parents to such masters, that have quite undone them as to the next world.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
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
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 David Masson
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 Walter Thornbury
