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At the ready

adjective

Ready for immediate use. "Students with pens and notebooks at the ready"

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"At the ready" Quotes from Famous Books

... a hearty but musical laugh at the ready dignity of the reply, but the boy's mouth dropped once more in consternation, as words came ...

— The Boy from Hollow Hut - A Story of the Kentucky Mountains • Isla May Mullins

... Still holding his weapon at the ready, he had circled round the stack till his view commanded all its recesses. Then he looked up and down the drain, peered under the culvert, and cast his eye across the fallow in every direction. Apparently satisfied, he threw the gun on his shoulder, and started off toward the lower ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... a wee bit afore they challenge the Scottish team!" murmured Macintosh, as he dropped on one knee behind the stone over which he held his Martini-Henry at the ready, his eye being fixed on the ...

— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough

... view even though it reached him in a fragmentary and subliminal way. Day after day he told himself that he would have all his faculties at the ready before the train swung into the curve. But morning after morning he was still emerging from the stale fumes of the preceding night's beer, or he allowed himself to be hypnotized by the sound of the wheels or fascinated by the jiggling of another passenger's earlobe ...

— In the Control Tower • Will Mohler

Words linked to "At the ready" : ready