towardly
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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
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
Sir G. With all my soul.—A towardly gentleman!
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
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 William Bodham Donne
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 Arthur Acheson
