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Example sentences for "ever ready"

  • To those who, ever ready to interpret the signs of the weather, yet remained wilfully blind to the important developments of the times, He applied the caustic epithet, hypocrites!

  • The conscientious mother is ever ready to console, advise and sympathize in all grievances and perplexities which may confront her offspring.

  • This officer and his brave comrades have added much to the rising glory of the American flag, and have merited all the effusions of gratitude which their country is ever ready to bestow on the champions of its rights and of its safety.

  • Our reliance for protection and defense on the land must be mainly on our citizen soldiers, who will be ever ready, as they ever have been ready in times past, to rush with alacrity, at the call of their country, to her defense.

  • He can sincerely thank God for all his goodness and pray for that protection which God is ever ready to grant those who love him.

  • Be ever ready to sacrifice your own comfort to promote the comfort of others.

  • The tear of sincere penitence our kind Saviour is ever ready to accept.

  • The Divine Physician is ever ready to administer to the wearied soul.

  • Vain-hope ever dwells in the bosom of fools, and is ever ready to assist Ignorance.

  • This is a valuable lesson to the ministers and members of churches, to be ever ready to welcome the returning prodigal.

  • In the latter case, he must stand and teach in humble subjection to such authority, ever ready to submit to its judgment; he must speak what he is commissioned to speak and not what his own taste leads him to invent.

  • Luther even in his Commentary on Romans is ever ready to decry the “wisdom of the flesh,” which is there described as constantly interfering with faith.

  • Nor must it be forgotten that, ever ready to combine and co-operate against a common foe, each Mamaluk was equally ready to turn his hand and sword against his fellow if thereby he might gain aught for himself.

  • He was always in excellent spirits, ever ready to be of service to a friend, lived with much moderation on victuals of the best quality procurable, took his autumnal holiday abroad in a gentlemanly manner.

  • Pre occupied with problems of her own relation to the world, she could not enjoy without thought in the rear, ever ready to trouble her with suggestions of unreality.

  • Ever clinging to sincerity, ever ready to face the truth of things, in how many a matter of less moment had the girl spoken with just this directness, inspiring respect in all who heard her clear, candid voice.

  • If Mr. Carvel walks out of an evening, Grafton's arm is ever ready, and my uncle and his worthy lady are eager to take a hand at cards before supper.

  • Fear was the boon companion of these; or better, the pestilence that stalked behind them, ever ready to strike.

  • In the Kadi el Islam, the Khalifa had a most faithful servant, ever ready to obey his master's wishes to the letter, no matter how grossly the law was misapplied.

  • Read the Mahdi's Rateb; and be ever ready to fight against the unbelievers.

  • For more than six years, in sunshine and rain, I have stood at your door, ever ready to receive and carry out your orders.

  • Brenchfield gazed at him in surprise, but, ever ready to be enlightened, he stepped back.

  • Jim, ever ready for an adventure, was on the floor in a second; and both were dressed and downstairs in five minutes.

  • With the Scriptures in our hands, we need no mortal man to declare this glorious truth to us; and knowing it, we can come boldly to the throne of grace, and He is ever ready to receive all who come to Him.

  • May it be our joy to be ever ready--in a holy readiness to be used, that God in all things may be glorified!

  • The flesh is ever ready to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness, and therefore it must be subdued.

  • Each true Christian is ever ready to acknowledge that in him, that is, in his flesh, there dwelleth no good thing.

  • Ever ready to promote disaffection and encourage revolt, he had seen with delight the rising of the Ghilzyes, and during their occupation of the passes had been eagerly intriguing with the chiefs.

  • The General, ever ready to listen to advice, and sometimes to take it, heard all that was advanced by the commissariat officer, readily assented to its truth, and promised to send out a reinforcement to the fort.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carved wood; catch hold; certain respects; ever came; ever done; ever existed; ever experienced; ever had; ever laid; ever liveth; ever seen; ever witnessed; evergreen shrub; everlasting glory; everlasting punishment; everybody said; everyday life; everything about; everything was; everywhere else; falling away; fine powder; heartily glad; keep him; popularly called; sure thing