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Sentences starting with ready

Ready as he was to meet challenge, he presently realized that his son had a readiness equally potent. [11]
Ready to make roads, throw up works, tear up railroads, or hew out and build wooden bridges; or, best of all, to go for the Johnnies under hot sun or heavy rain, through swamp and mire and quicksand. [9]
Ready to buy and pay cash down? [11]
Ready for prompt action, he bent toward his yokemate, and whispered imperiously: "The hour of deliverance is at hand. [10]
Ready now. [11]

Sentences ending with ready

Lead on, an ye will, be it even to the scaffold, for I am ready. [5]
Think of that, with a French audience all stirred up and ready. [5]
At what time will you be ready? [9]
I fear he will have the laugh on us, for ours is not ready. [11]
The priest's incantations will fail; then the Portuguese will give up that scheme and get his watering-pot ready. [5]
But they were wild Mexican fellows, and a man had to stand at the head of each of them and hold him fast while the driver gloved and got himself ready. [5]
Then the canister, which produced ghastly murder, chain-shot to bring down masts and spars, langrel to fire at masts and rigging, and the dismantling shot to tear off sails, were all made ready. [11]
I therefore ask whether you have it ready. [10]
Let me know when you are ready. [5]
I will write when I get ready. [6]

Short sentences using ready

Are you ready to talk? [5]
An' be ready to ride! [13]
Are you ready to go? [11]
Are you ready to begin? [5]
Make it ready then. [11]
Have you the tablets ready? [10]
She's quite ready, sir. [12]
Are you all ready? [5]
Can you get ready? [4]
Yes, I am ready. [9]

Sentences containing ready two or more times

In that wealthy, well-ordered house everything stood ready to hand; and in less than a quarter of an hour the tribune Nemesianus was informed that the chamber was ready for the reception of his brother. [10]
Men of this type, who could be leaders, are ready to assume their responsibilities, are ready to deal fairly with railroads and citizens alike. [9]
Publishers were ready to examine what he offered, and were just as ready to declare that these new wares were of a nature in which they were not inclined to deal. [4]
When you left, three miles of the London, Canterbury and Dover were ready for the rails, and also ready and ripe for manipulation in the stock-market. [5]
The people understand this well, and are ready to sacrifice themselves for us, when they see that we are ready to give up our own will to the law. [10]
Mr. Parr replied that he had told the rector that he stood ready to contribute to such a scheme when he, the rector; should be ready to approve it. [9]
When he was ready, we were not; and now we have been ready more than a month, while he has been kept in Washington by the Silver bill. [5]
Wait till you're ready, that's the idea; and when you're ready, zzip!--let her go! [5]
The widow was ready, Rowena was ready, so also were the foreigners. [5]
Yet on getting ready to leave the ship I found four of the lads ready to come ashore in the boat! [5]

More example sentences with the word ready in them

If you soak yourself in drink and fail in your blow, and I am not ready with the poisoned stiletto the thing won't come off neatly. [10]
Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are. [5]
Take leave of your wife, and (I speak by the king's command) be ready to start before dark. [10]
It is in your hands; it is all in your hands; and I cannot speak unless--unless you are ready also. [11]
She was very young and pretty and accommodating, and always ready to do what she could to make things pleasant. [5]
I see that you, too, are ready to depart and should grieve to behold the comfort of your aged hosts destroyed by hasty acts that may yet be needless. [10]
I will thank you, therefore, to inform me, if you can, by what day, at the earliest, you can promise to have ready to be mustered into the United States service the eight thousand men. [7]
I'm sorry for you, M'sieu' Jean Jacques, and I've come to say that I'm ready to lend you two thousand dollars, if that's any help. [11]
And when do you think she will be ready for a drawing- room--Her Majesty Queen Victoria's, or ours? [11]
Comrade, how still you stepped, your bayonet thrust out before you, clearing the mists, your eyes straining, your teeth set, ready to thrust. [11]
They're ready for you in the ball-room. [11]
We know that you have armed a vast host against us, and we are ready to buy peace and liberty by a yearly tribute. [10]
McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
No wonder that you are ready to move from one fireplaceless house into another. [4]
He jumped up yelling, and the first thing the light showed was the varmint curled up and ready for another spring. [5]
For her the years had given many compensations, and so she told the Cure, one midsummer day, when she brought to visit him the orphaned son of Paulette Dubois, graduated from his college in France and making ready to go to the far East. [11]
But presently Pierre yawned, and was ready to return. [11]
The Emperor had written to Count Rostopchin as follows: As soon as Leppich is ready, get together a crew of reliable and intelligent men for his car and send a courier to General Kutuzov to let him know. [2]
If when I write, I were to think of the critics who, I know, are waiting for Currer Bell, ready 'to break all his bones or ever he comes to the bottom of the den,' my hand would fall paralysed on my desk. [14]
I can now write in perfect security to the Emperor that all will be ready for him in Lochias, and as a farewell speech, I can only say, it is folly to be discouraged if only Pontius is at hand to support and assist me. [10]
By it none wounded in feeling, none injured in interest; even the drammaker and dram-seller will have glided into other occupations so gradually as never to have felt the change, and will stand ready to join all others in the universal song of gladness. [7]
He judged she would let her spectre go; he hadn't a doubt of it in fact; but anyway, let the choice be made, and he was ready to ratify it and offer no further hindrance. [5]
I said I would be ready when he got back. [5]
The convent, too, would be ready to receive her--the abbess had told him so--if Herr Groland, of Nuremberg, kept his promise of paying her admission dues. [10]
No, I must work up to it by degrees, buying suit after suit of clothes, in shops wide apart, and getting a little finer article with each change, until I should finally reach silk and velvet, and be ready for my project. [5]
She had some work ready for him. [10]
It is his work if she cleaves to the religious belief of her people, if she who is a Hellene to the last drop of blood loves Egypt, and is ready to make any sacrifice for her independence and grandeur. [10]
She had one word which she always kept on hand, and ready, like a life-preserver, a kind of emergency word to strap on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden way--that was the word Synonymous. [5]
He proceeded, therefore, without delay, to get ready for a visit to that lady at The Poplars. [6]
The physician noticed, with warm sympathy, how deeply this mysterious expectation had influenced her excitable nature, ever torn by varying emotions, and the excellent man was ready to aid her as a friend and intercessor. [10]
Sadly, in accordance with the treaty which Monsieur Talleyrand had known nothing about, his Catholic Majesty instructed his Intendant at New Orleans to make ready to deliver Louisiana to the French Commission. [9]
Philip was impressed with the ready talent, the adaptable talent, and the facility of this accomplished journalist, and as their acquaintance improved he was let into many of the secrets of success in the profession. [4]
Janus was pleased with the ready repartee and exclaimed: "How bright and happy you look! [10]
As he reclined with the Bithyman, before the supper which was standing ready, he said: "A strange evening! [10]
Publishers were ready with plans for collecting the letters in book form. [5]
Now send Cyrus with my shoes and cloak, and have my litter got ready, for Paulina has been kept waiting long enough. [10]
I will stay with Mr. Bentley to-night, and leave for New York to-morrow, to do what I have to do--and then you will be ready for me. [9]
Contrasting its failure with its high pretensions, it is fair to call it an imposition; whether an expressly fraudulent contrivance or not, some might be ready to question. [6]
The kemengeh-player stood with his instrument ready, and he lifted it in a kind of appeal. [11]
Now, having established with his entire party this doctrine, having been entirely successful in that branch of his efforts in your behalf, he is ready for another. [7]
However, Orion went with his anxious friend to the ship-yard; the old ship-builder, a kind-hearted giant, was as ready and glad to undertake the rescue of the Sisters as if each one was his own mother. [10]
Forty eight guns with ammunition have been sent him from here, and his Serene Highness says he will defend Moscow to the last drop of blood and is even ready to fight in the streets. [2]
Now, mention your wish; my heart is as calmly quiet as the Nile waters which are flowing by so quietly, and I am ready to hear it, be it good or evil. [10]
Having got his will, he was now ready to give that same fortune to the good of Egypt--but not to beys and pashas and eunuchs (and that he should have escaped Mizraim was the marvel beyond all others! [11]
But the conductor will come and examine it when the train is ready to start. [5]
Every man in whose veins flowed Egyptian blood listened to him attentively, took pleasure in his projects, and was quite ready to do his utmost to enhance the glories of this ceremonial, in which every one was to take part either active or passive. [10]
Even Theocritus, on whose lips a word of flattery or applause was always ready, looked down in his dismay; but Caracalla, in his frenzy of excitement, heeded nothing. [10]
The guests in whom we may have some interest were in the mean time making ready for the party, which was expected to be a brilliant one; for 24 Carat Place was well known for the handsome style of its entertainments. [6]
To the dead, who had ceased to be dangerous, he was ready to show an excess of magnanimity. [10]
A certain sentiment which we may call pride was so strong in him that he felt ready to make almost any sacrifice to prevent it. [9]
Like Balancing Rock, which waited darkly over the steep gorge, ready to close forever the outlet to Deception Pass, that nameless thing, as certain yet intangible as fate, must fall and close forever all doubts and fears of the future. [13]
There are days when the steam ship on the Atlantic glides calmly along under a full canvas, but its central fires must always be ready to make steam against head-winds and antagonistic waves. [4]
One windy morning when the leaves were kiting over the valley we were getting ready for pounding hominy, when a figure appeared on the trail. [9]
She was ready when the carriage came to the door, and told the coachman to drive to the office of Mr. Sage in Nassau Street. [4]
She said that when she told those people I was The Boss, it hit them where they lived: "smote them sore with fear and dread" was her word; and then they were ready to put up with anything she might require. [5]
Barbara had retired when Peter at last appeared, so weary that he could scarcely touch the meal that had been kept ready for him. [10]
But you see when people have been getting ready for months in a quiet way to get married, they are bound to grow stingy, and go to saving up money against that awful day when it is sure to be needed. [5]
Let him come when he is ready. [11]
In April, 1579, when Gilbert took active steps under the charter of 1578, diplomatic difficulties arose, growing out of Elizabeth's policy with the Spaniards, and when Gilbert's ships were ready to sail he was stopped by an order from the council. [4]
Whatever I am, whatever I may accomplish, belongs to Thee, Oh Mighty Lord, and I am ready to devote my blood, my life to my people. [10]
I didn't know what was the matter at first, and when I found out I was scared to death, I was ready to kill myself. [9]
No matter at what hour Gaston returned, he found Jacques waiting; and when he woke he found him ready, as now, on this morning, after a strange night. [11]
All visiting pilots were useful, for they were always ready and willing, winter or summer, night or day, to go out in the yawl and help buoy the channel or assist the boat's pilots in any way they could. [5]
Some mummy-cases, too, were there, ready to be packed off to other towns. [10]
The former relations were resumed; Hendon stood behind the King's chair, while he dined, and waited upon him; undressed him when he was ready for bed; then took the floor for his own quarters, and slept athwart the door, rolled up in a blanket. [5]
After that they were ready for the Signal Station. [4]
All these dispositions were quickly and quietly made, and everything was ready for the transfer of the patient to the house of the hospitable physician. [6]
As though others were not every whit as ready as you to give their best to save them. [10]
Then the priest went up to him, and said: "You said you were ready to take the consequences of your folly, and a prince's word must be kept. [10]
Twice or thrice we seemed to get the signal, and a shout was just ready to break from the men's lips when they perceived it was a false alarm. [5]
In this labour we passed eight days, and then were ready for the launch again. [11]
Many a time we have gotten all ready for the funeral and found it postponed again, on account of the weather or something. [5]
What we wanted we got not by defying the world, but by conforming to it: we were ready to defy only when our desires overcame the resistance of our synapses, and even then not until we should have exhausted every legal and conventional means. [9]
Not only, but we are ready to begin moving forward. [7]
So, on my way, I made up my mind to begin the copy at once by lamp-light, for it must be ready by to-morrow night at latest. [10]
Yes, there it was, the crested golden cock which had typified his own life, as he went head high, body erect, spurs giving warning, and a clarion in his throat ready to blare forth at any moment. [11]
Distressed as Madelinette was, she was composed and ready. [11]
After that I was welded to my faith, I was theoretically ready to die for it, and I looked down with compassion not unmixed with scorn upon everybody else's faith that didn't tally with mine. [5]
A fourth bed was waiting ready for the Captain, but not one word had been heard of him, though inquiries had been made in the towns from and through which the father had brought his two sons and the lieutenant-colonel. [6]
Yea, and I was too full of care for the happiness of my brother and of my friend to be ready to think of my own; so I could only speak him fair, but say him nay. [10]
What he wanted was to get her thoroughly interested in himself, and to maintain her in a receptive condition until such time as he should be ready for a final move. [6]
The boat which was to convey him over to it lay ready in the little flotilla, where a magnificently equipped galley had just been moored to the shore, undoubtedly the one that had brought the guests from Pelusium hither. [10]
After that he was to be ready with the asp in the fish-market every day. [10]
To her he was the man, not the Emperor, and that he did not express a desire to hear her again seemed like an insult which the man offered to the woman, the artist, who was ready to obey his sign. [10]
When the lunch was ready, they sat down. [11]
Long before supper was ready, nearly nine o'clock, we had almost lost interest in it. [4]
At last I was ready, arrayed in my best, on the gallery, when Monsieur de St. Gre came. [9]
The old man was ready, and in a few seconds they were on their road. [12]
At noon everything was ready for her departure, and she would not be withheld from eating in the dining-room with the family. [10]
The young Seigneur was ready for battle also. [11]
She said she was quite ready to go to New York; she had been thinking it all over, and now she really wanted to go. [8]
When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him. [2]
Supposing that all was now ready, I cleared my throat and began--in Chinese, because of my imperfect English: "Hear, O high and mighty mandarin, and believe! [5]
Within doors supper was now ready, but we, as beseemed us, kept out of the way. [10]
Now when all was made ready Aunt Jacoba begged of Ann that she should hold the sore closed while Master Ulsenius made the linen bands wet. [10]
Just as one was learning his trade, or perhaps had acquired it, and was ready to earn his living and begin to make a home for his wife, he must pass the three best years of his life in the army. [4]
As usual, Biberli was his confidant, and declared himself ready to use Katterle's services in his master's behalf. [10]
A long consultation was held, but the conclusion was two great stones were brought before Powhatan; then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines. [4]
Once more it was flattened into a lap, given to a comber that felt out its fibres, removing with superhuman precision those for the finer fabric too short, thrusting it forth again in another filmy sliver ready for the drawing frames. [9]
Only one foot was firm on the ground; the other-with its thin sandal all torn by the sharp stones--was stretched out over the abyss, ready for the next fatal step. [10]

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