It was finally the first sweet day of spring, and for city dwellers the only place to greet its tardy arrival was at the park.

Mistakes are sometimes made, including the delivery of the wrong entree one evening and the tardy arrival of bread on another.

The tardy arrival of these troops subjected their commander to a temporary disgrace.

How he would hate to trot out that reason for the young man's tardy arrival, when he would never have used it to excuse himself!

Side dishes also put in a tardy arrival and baked potatoes were delivered without sour cream or extra butter.

But faces dropped when they saw who the tardy arrival was.

He alleged that the building was ablaze before the tardy arrival of the BSF troops.

The options were stark: ask the driver to stop and let me collect myself, thus delaying the group's already tardy arrival, or risk the worst.

Grant's tardy arrival took some of the focus off Golota's past problems, when low blows have led to disqualifications in his major bouts.

When the Dark Fury bore down on them like a great bird of prey, he'd almost been impressed enough to forgive his brother's tardy arrival.