1 Sometimes she had gone into the kitchen to administer a tardy rebuke to the cook.
2 He was, in truth, proceeding to Montcalm, fearless of every danger, to claim the tardy escort for which he had before conditioned.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 3 The elastic, light step of an Indian was gone, and in its place he was compelled to toil his tardy way over the ground, inch by inch.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 4 It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF 5 Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his appearance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 6 And also, their tardy slumbers, to some degree.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 7 At last I looked up at the tardy speaker: he was looking eagerly at me.
8 But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth.
9 The factory-bells had need to ring their loudest that morning to disperse the groups of workers who stood in the tardy daybreak, collected round the placards, devouring them with eager eyes.
10 Not less mischievous than doubtful resolves are those which are late and tardy, especially when they have to be made in behalf of a friend.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. 11 He did not know how to study; he had no idea of thoroughness; and with his tardiness, carelessness, and appalling good-humor, we were sore perplexed.