"Tardily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... discussion. Wild appeals are made for convictions and extreme penalties. Governors and boards of pardon and parole are urged to refuse clemency to prisoners and are roundly condemned when they do their plain duty, even though they do it very reluctantly and tardily. ...
— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow
... his fate to the last moment. The guns were already trained upon Cuestrin, and thirty seconds more would have seen his headquarters in ruins. He did wisely, if he acted tardily." ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith
... however, cannot medicine for any length of time a mind diseased. Wearied by the distractions and harassed by the expenses of a town life, which he had not the discretion to regulate, Goldsmith took the resolution, too tardily adopted, of retiring to the serene quiet and cheap and healthful pleasures of the country, and of passing only two months of the year in London. He accordingly made arrangements to sell his right in the Temple chambers, and in the month of March retired to his country quarters ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... tardily to a second truth. In the mirrors before him he could see the silent door standing open, and the silent Mr. Paul standing in it, with ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is now tardily and ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
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