The soup was cold, but it was ______ an excellent meal.

He __________ lives in the house where he was born.

--- What a lot of fun it is to play on a frozen sports field! --- Isn’t it rather risky,       ?

All too _____ it was time to go back to school after the glorious summer holidays.

Although he was disabled when he was only ten years of age, yet he aimed _____, for which his classmates spoke _______ of him.