tardy

• “Mr. Talbot's desire to be away was a surprise to him, for he was in difficulties how, even in that enormous hall, to dispose of all who claimed by right or by favour to witness what he called the tardy fulfilment of judgment.”

  Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland

• “In lots of cultures around the world, being tardy is NOT a sign of disrespect at all.”

  Dealing With The Tardiness Of Others | Lifehacker Australia

• “He spread them violently and with little preamble thrust himself into the closest of all connections, even hurting her a little, though she never could be called tardy in response, and she approved of this new brutality, at the outset anyway, as an appropriate sequel to her brush with dying.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Houseguest

• “The curses of the camel-drivers beating the animals; the cries of the hawkers who sold amulets against leprosy and the evil eye; the psalmody of the monks reciting verses of the Bible; the shrieking of the women who were prophesying; the shouting of the beggars singing old songs of the harem; the bleating of sheep; the braying of asses; the sailors calling tardy passengers; all these confused noises caused a deafening uproar, over which dominated the strident voices of the little naked negro boys, running about everywhere selling fresh dates.”

  Thais

• “We were kind of tardy with the hotel reservation stuff, and the governor's suites are all booked.”

  Day in the Life of an Idiot

• “A GAO report recently called the Administration "tardy" even in securing radioactive materials in the United States.”

  James Boyce and Paul Abrams: George Bush: A Failed Presidency That Broke Faith with the American People

• “The province's bursary payments had been "tardy" in the past, but this was the first year the university had not been paid, he said.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “She said government alone was not responsible for combating the disease and she described the private sector's response as "tardy".”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “was reportedly late, extremely tardy, which is not exactly an innovation in the annals of rudeness.”

  StarTribune.com rss feed

• “The Medium: There were three -- a kind of tardy assent.”

  Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert

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