The farmer looked at his intractable guest, and then upon his dutiful son; and the idea tardily passed through his dull brain that the soldiers would be just as dangerous to the welfare of the son as to the visitor. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)
They are a store of trouble, as the established nuclear powers have recognised, admittedly tardily and incompletely, by reducing their inventories in recent years. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Famously, if tardily, Kennedy replied that it was going to be a long, cold winter. ❋ Charles McCarry (2011)
You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat, and be refreshed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It manages to spot public grievances, even if a little tardily, and quickly steers policy to deal with them. ❋ Alex Au (2011)
As ghastly as the administration's performance has been to date -- excessively cautious, inconsistent and confused -- it can now, albeit tardily, get on the right side of history. ❋ Jennifer Rubin (2011)
Midway buffs love to ponder the matter of the floatplane tardily launched from the Japanese cruiser Tone on the morning of June 4—part of a pattern of seven search aircraft fanning out from Nagumo's force as the opposing carrier fleets moved toward first contact. ❋ James D. Hornfischer (2011)
The Renaissance entered Britain tardily, and on tip-toe. ❋ Unknown (2011)
If pharmaceutical firms could profit from these substances and if the latter hadn't been associated with hedonism in a time characterized by protest against a war and against racism, perhaps this process of official rediscovery would have moved less tardily. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Isabel tardily realizes that she's been played by her best friend Serena and her own husband. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Shadows, for sure, has been a long time coming (it's the first since 2005's Man-Made, and features a song called, slightly tardily, Shock And Awe), but it's a great endorsement of their way of doing things. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We ought, therefore, first to teach through habit, which is able to govern the as yet unreasoning appetites and to direct them toward the good by means of that fair use; next we ought to establish them through the understanding, which although it shows its light more tardily, still furnishes a mode of making the virtues more perfectly fruitful to one whose mind is well trained by practice. — ❋ Unknown (2008)
To tardily answer his question, no, we most assuredly did not. ❋ Nathan Rabin (2010)
But it is galling to see the Obama administration respond tardily and ineptly to the threats emanating from abroad and to try and brush off the public with blandly reassuring fictions about their security. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The primary thought was to lobby Congress on behalf of the impressively strong civil-rights bill that the Kennedy administration had tardily put forward immediately after Birmingham, but here once again the formal name of the gathering — the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — reminds us of things now largely long forgotten. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It was fought between Russia and an alliance of the United Kingdom, France, and the Ottoman Empire, joined somewhat tardily by Piedmont-Sardinia. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And she said yes to Randolph Hearst, tardily behind the other press lords, and huffing to catch up. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Among the proposed improvements tardily coming your way: (1) Free reports from all three major bureaus TRW, Equifax and Trans Union-if you're turned down for credit based on a report from one of them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
