Ready

I made ready to set out on my journey.

The troops are ready for battle.

The porridge is ready to serve.

If need be, I am ready to forego / And quit:

she was told dinner was ready

Miranda: I'll admit it, Shepard. I'm impressed. You got us here. Are you ready? Shepard: We're going in blind, and we don't even know if we'll survive the trip. No way in hell we're ready... but we don't have a choice.

a loaf of ready-sliced bread

The cave was like a ready-made home for us.

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[…]and whoever can keep their Corps till they can ſend to London, and have a ready-made Coffin ſent down, may afterwards have them kept any reaſonable time.

[…]but, in the improvement of a place in which Nature has furnished few materials in which the groundwork of improvement is tame, and in which suitable diſtances cannot be had, the rules of ſcience and the "ready-made taste" of connoiſſeurs are of little avail to the artiſt.

The seed is ready to sprout.

My heart is ready to crack.

a ready apprehension

a ready writer or workman

whose temper was ready, though surly

ready in devising expedients

Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.

"Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.

The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.

Through the wilde Deſert, not the readieſt way,

A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.

Immigration agents in military green surrounded MacArthur Park as the convoy readied for a show of force akin to a Hollywood movie.

[H]e vvas not fluſh in Ready, either to go to Lavv or clear old Debts, neither could he find good Bail: […]

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