Example Sentences

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I too would argue that life’s forwardness and towardness comes before any discrete task—any, that is, except for gradient reduction.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2013

The want of which towardness cost the Ephramites their Skinns: Nither doth this cross my former Assertion of others easie learning our Language.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard

Ah, boy, this towardness makes thy mother fear    Thou art not mark'd to many days on earth!

From Edward the Second by Marlowe, Christopher

But that afternoon Eugene Hautville, who had gone all this time the long way to the village, felt his own instincts, or the natural towardness of his heart, too strong for him.

From Madelon A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins