What other men are frankly too busy to do, he is supposed to be cheerfully ready to do.

"Portobello's dressing boxes for lady bathers are practically ready.

" "If I had my old ally, Mr. Powis, here," said Eve touching the fender unconsciously with her little foot, and perceptibly losing the animation and pleasantry of her voice, in tones that were gentler, if not melancholy, "I should ask him to explain this matter to you, for he was singularly ready in such replies.

And when this was done, I pushed a sharp branch downward into the shore, and I hookt a branch of the raft about this mooring, and so did be nigh ready for the voyage.

We found them uniformly ready to communicate information, and free to express their sentiments.

There are men always ready inside to draw the water and fill the jugs, which till people come are kept full; these men receive a yearly salary.

A minute later she emerged from the house to which she had retreated, seemingly ready to swap slaps for kisses some more.

Here they come!" I expected to see every man spring toward the walls in order to learn for himself what had caused the alarm, and at any other time they would have done so; but so great was the sense of impending danger that instinctively the garrison formed in line ready for orders.

Through the whole, my alarm and apprehension of personal danger had a large mixture of frankness and simplicity, conscious of meaning no ill, that made me continually ready to say every thing that was upon my mind, and would not suffer me to believe that, when things were brought to the test, any one could be seriously angry with me.

"Get ye ready straightway."

Bid her awake; for Hymen is awake, 25 And long since ready forth his maske to move, With his bright tead* that flames with many a flake, And many a bachelor to waite on him, In theyr fresh garments trim.

Prue was watching at the window with Minnie Harrowgate, and was joyfully ready to go home to see Aunt Prue when Marjorie and Lizzie Harrowgate appeared.

Under all circumstances, however, our coast defences must be continuously ready for fighting, and permanently garrisoned in times of political tension.

In all the offices of friendship he was remarkably ready, and had a most sweet and engaging manner of performing them, which greatly heightened the obligations he conferred.

Together the two had achieved a triumph, and the table now stood forth glowingly ready for its sixteen guests, from the splendid bunch of scarlet geraniums in an immense pink and blue bowl with an Indian's head on one side, to the sixteen chairs, no two exactly alike, which had been obtained from half as many houses.

The mass of the people, thereforeall those, especially, who had taken no active part in Berenice's governmentwere ready to welcome Ptolemy back to his capital.

We have a steel hawser ready, but if she breaks the hemp rope she'll probably break the wire.

Which particulars I hope so to prosecute, that any man shall be able easily to discern, and ready heartily to detest this practice.

" "Oh!" exclaimed Aurora, inwardly ready for fierce tears, but with no outward betrayal save a trifle too much grace and an over-bright smile, "Monsieur is much mistaken; we are quite comfortable and happy, wanting nothing, eh, Clotilde?not even our rights, ha, ha!"

Art thou, who art so ready lightly to disdain me, art thou, I say, so sure, so very sure, that thou art thyself the only lover of this much married beauty, whom thou sawest, as thou sayest, for the very first time in thy life to-day?

"Last week we sent off one hospital unit, and a messenger came back from it yesterday to tell us awful facts16,000 wounded in Limoges for one place, and equal numbers in several other little places south of Parisjust trains full of themwith so little ready for them in the way of doctors or nurses.

The law of Simplicity is not the only law of art; and, moreover, audiences are, unhappily, so little accustomed to judge works as wholes, and so ready to seize upon any detail which pleases them, no matter how incongruously the detail may be placed, ["Was hilft's, wenn ihr ein Ganzes dargebracht!

Your eldest girl, Angelina, aged ten, one of those premature little grown women who have learned from the cradle that man is born to eat pastry and woman to make it, postponed her small repast till an indefinite future, and sat meekly ready to attend upon our wants.

That's why you're so mighty ready to root me out," and he aimed a pillow at Henry's bed in derision.

And not only were the enormous accumulations of stored-up impressions safe beyond reach of oblivion or confusion, but they were all and always miraculously ready for co-ordination with those newly coming in at each passing moment!