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• The troops are ready for battle.  The porridge is ready to serve.
• If need be, I am ready to forego / And quit.
• Dinner was ready.
• The seed is ready to sprout.
• My heart is ready to crack.
• a ready apprehension;  ready wit;  a ready writer or workman
• [...]whose temper was ready, through 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.
• 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.
• the readiest way
• A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.
• Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.