Then I called out lustily for help, and the ever-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

His denunciations of treason and his ever-ready remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

"Well, he might as well stay away," declared the ever-ready Ike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference

Endowed with an ever-ready mind and an unfailing power of invention.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

We no longer anxiously inquired of each other whether the ever-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference

His words, and still more his look, vexed and surprised the ever-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference

"I hate the melancholy mountains," the ever-ready Angelica burst forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

Eastern today and the ever-ready bunny here will be sharing part of those duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2006] Reference

The very influence of the place, and the ever-ready help of the teacher are on his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study of Child Life] Reference

If wounds slowed a man down, the ever-ready forces of destruction quickly finished the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

He runs into police, ever-ready to pounce on photographers who aren't allowed near the Kaaba.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference

Even when working from a manuscript, a speaker should be ever-ready to depart from his text if.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

It cannot furnish the initiative, but it can be a constant reminder and an ever-ready recipient.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference

National sovereignty takes another hit, courtesy of the Greece crisis and the ever-ready eurocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even if Bailout Ends Contagion, Euroland Is Changed Forever] Reference

To-day the express-trains do it in six and one-half hours, and the ever-ready automobile has knocked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Miracle and cataclysm and postmortem glory -- the ever-ready recourse of baffled hope and persecuted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference

The girls did very well with the cooking, with Austin's ever-ready help when they were in perplexity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Hill House] Reference

The hunters, therefore, sat for hours upon their three-legged stools, waiting with ever-ready spears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

Tea in China and Japan is the stand-by of every meal -- the never-failing and ever-ready refreshment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Tea Book] Reference

Böttiger calls the ever-ready manufacturer of translations (der allezeit fertige Uebersetzungsfabrikant).    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

This style of thought, set off by a fair share of witty expression and ever-ready impertinence, gave Felix.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference

Her ever-ready sympathy went out to all those in it whose difficult love-problems tended toward renunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference

A woman with restless movements and an ever-ready tongue -- a thorough daughter of the London world she lives in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

This she did in characteristic fashion when he reached the ground, by giving him a few light taps with her ever-ready club.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference

Competitiveness, having an ever-ready answer, a talent for manipulating situations-all these things are encouraged to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout] Reference

Apparently he bore ill-will toward no one, and his ever-ready humor helped him to view the lives of others without harshness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

The multi-million or - billion dollar contract cost would be covered by loans by the ever-ready and complicit I.M.F. and World Bank.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"] Reference

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"What great plans have you been making now, Lucile?" said Mrs. Wescott, with that ever-ready interest that had won the girls completely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile Triumphant] Reference

He brought his ever-ready rifle into position and looked about for the leader, thinking that if he could be killed, the pack would disband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Followers of the Trail] Reference

Eleanor's ever-ready pity rises up to crush the anger previously felt, for she sees now the effort that this brief confession has cost her fellow traveller.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference