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Example sentences for "made ready"

  • Then Grim, the son of Thorhall, Gamli's brother, made ready to accompany him along with another man.

  • So he made ready to leave Norway, embarked, and did not stop until he reached Constantinople, and obtained service there.

  • Towards Yule-tide he made ready to go on a journey to his farm called Slysfjord on the mainland, whither he had invited a number of his friends.

  • Then he made ready to go, and parted with much affection from his mother.

  • He made ready a suit against Grim and Atli, but they set forth for their defence onset and attack, to make those brothers fall unatoned.

  • So he made ready to go from Norway, and get him gone from out the land, and made no stay till he came to Micklegarth, and there took war-hire.

  • Thorfinn went home to his house, and sat at home till just up to Yule, as is aforesaid; but at Yule he made ready to go to his farm called Slysfirth, which is on the mainland, and thither he had bidden many of his friends.

  • I lay down; and when I had rested I strung my bow, I made ready my arrows, I loosened my poignard, I furbished my arms.

  • And the wife of Uba-aner sent to the steward who had charge over the garden, saying, 'Let the lodge which is in the garden be made ready, for I come to tarry there.

  • So the wife of Uba-aner sent to the steward who had charge over the garden, saying, 'Let the lodge which is in the garden be made ready.

  • Only his boat he kept; and that he made ready for a voyage, till there was not so much as a nail wanting to make it better.

  • But wicked Youkahainen hated Wainamoinen for what he had done when he defeated him in magic, and so he made ready a bow of steel.

  • At length Wainamoinen had learned all the wisdom of the great magician, and the three lost words, and he made ready to leave Wipunen's body, bidding him open wide his mouth that he might get out and leave him for ever.

  • So when the magic boat was finished, he made ready for a journey to the Northland, to try once more to win the fair Pohjola maiden for his bride.

  • No sooner had Wainamoinen heard this, than he made ready for a journey and started off for the dismal Northland.

  • As soon as Earl Hakon heard the news of disturbance in More, he fitted out ships, sent the war-token through the land, made ready in all haste, and proceeded out of the fjord.

  • Olaf Haraldson had not gone on land with the others, and when he heard of his father's fall he made ready to sail away with the men who remained.

  • When they came there the earl said, "Well, let it be made ready for us; as to save our life is the first and foremost concern.

  • When the message came to the bishop he made ready to go, and it contributed much to this journey that the bishop considered it as true what was told of King Olaf's miracles and sanctity.

  • He commands the knights to be aroused and the horses to be made ready.

  • Soon after supper they ordered the beds to be made ready.

  • When the King had stayed as long as he chose, he made ready to depart.

  • He said that he would take his bath on the third day, and the seneschal required his, too, to be made ready.

  • He made ready a plenteous dinner, and inquired through the town for such poor knights as were in misease by reason of prison or of war.

  • The lady went out, and bade meat to be made ready.

  • His enemy, with the over-confidence of youth, made ready simultaneously to abandon all the strength of his position, and likewise moved forward.

  • It was, therefore, not entirely without a cooerdination of plans that the Army of Egypt, strengthened and refreshed, made ready to move in February.

  • He made great presents to all of them so as to gain their goodwill, and when he had thus attached many people to himself he made ready to attack Bisnaga where the King dwelt.

  • So he ordered a gallows to be set up and, having accused Smith of mutiny, made ready to hang him.

  • When Stuyvesant heard of it he made ready to resist.

  • To this end Gorges got himself made Governor General of the whole of New England, with power to do almost as he liked, and he made ready to set out for his new domain with a thousand soldiers to enforce his authority.

  • Then back to the kitchen, where he put the dishes on the table so that a meal might be made ready quickly, if it so chanced that the keepers succeeded in gaining the ledge before another day had come.

  • Then Captain Eph swung the dory around, and, ordering Sidney to take a pair of oars, made ready to board the hulk on the northerly side.

  • And after that, I made ready, and went to my sleep, having sweet thoughts and slumbrous, of the Maid.

  • Being a single man, without wife or child, he sold his furniture, and, turning all his available property into money, made ready to fly the country.

  • On the following day, towards noon, he made ready to go to JiurozayĆ©mon's house, bidding one of his apprentices precede him with a complimentary present.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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