The knowledge had certainly come tardily, but not the less surely.

Such was the compelling power of that love which had come tardily to her.

Thoughts come tardily, when the arrow or the bullet hath already taken its flight!

I waited for him in some wonder, it not being like him to come tardily to such pastime.

But I am better, now that Spring hath come tardily forth, and I look on the fresh flowers, and hear the song of the birds.

The sense of the broken whispers came tardily to Courthope's understanding through the smothering door.

Both came tardily that year.

The vital nervous fluids no longer sprang forth to his muscles at the command of his brain: they came tardily, if at all.

Spring comes tardily to the high mountain town, and a light powdering of snow still lay on the topmost slope of Monte Subasio.

To the inmates of the house the hours had stretched their weary lengths along, and sleep came tardily to bring relief to their overwrought minds.