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Tete d'armee   Head of Army. theine   Caffeine. towardliness   Apt to learn; promising; docile; tractable; propitious; seasonable.

From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph

He had been bred up in the same exercise of bull-baiting, which was her own delight; she had always praised his towardliness, and prophesied his preferment.

From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles

If we look at his native towardliness in the roughcast, without breeding, some nation or p. 6other may haply be better composed to a natural civility and right judgment than he. 

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry