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Example sentences for "quite ready"

  • Now I am quite ready to admit that every Constitution ought to rest either upon symmetry or upon acceptance.

  • I am quite ready to admit that the fact that you make a particular branch of trade more profitable, induces more people to engage in that branch of trade.

  • This awkward silence was broken by the welcome appearance of Cecil, who burst into the room, exclaiming: "Auntie, tea is quite ready!

  • I am quite ready to talk to him, because he amuses me, but I am not bound to marry every man who does.

  • And after a little more conversation Katherine went back to her occupation of arranging her belongings and wardrobe, that when the moment of parting came she might be quite ready to go.

  • I am sure, if he will only give me the chance of keeping my boys with me, I am quite ready to welcome him to both.

  • She will be quite ready to hear the Duke's opinions on the Foreign Office.

  • I am quite ready to resign my office, but I could not make Lord Palmerston the scapegoat for the sins which will be imputed to the Government in the late negotiations.

  • Lord Palmerston is quite ready to be guided by us.

  • If you do dear Rosalie, I shall die of grief; but if I do not yield you, my honour bids me marry you, and that I am quite ready to do.

  • I am quite ready, dearest, to climb the harden wall, and I shall do it more dexterously than your wretched humpback.

  • Most Holy Father, I am quite ready to take this step, if Your Holiness will grant me a letter of commendation written with your own hand.

  • However, there are lots of other fellows who'll be quite ready to take it on.

  • I shall be quite ready to come and have it out with you whenever you like when I leave here--in your vestry, if you like.

  • Though it is far from pleasant to have my individual affairs thus brought to notice, I am quite ready to do anything to forward the cause of justice or to aid in any way the discovery of my uncle's murderer.

  • Well, though I haven't 'hired' you, I would be quite ready to pay your honorarium if you can ferret out our West Sedgwick mystery.

  • Parmalee went with me and we found Mr. Monroe in the library, quite ready to talk with us.

  • I'm quite ready to leave it to them," said Sir William.

  • Fred seemed to be quite ready to talk, and he did not follow Pamela's lead in trying to bring Norman into the conversation.

  • Oh, I'm quite ready to make friends with him if he wants it.

  • If you want to talk over things quietly I'm quite ready.

  • Quite Ready' is the signal to lower the trap, which we do in the regular theater-fashion.

  • Morcerf, quite ready to aid the memory of the narrator.

  • They will know you are deserted, and think you also poor, for I alone know your real financial position, and am quite ready to give up my accounts as an honest partner.

  • Madame de Villefort is dressed; she is quite ready, and wishes to know if she is to accompany you, sir?

  • I am quite ready to state how I think the cash payments would operate.

  • We would be quite ready to embark in it and buy for cash, if we could make a commission; but I do not believe it would pay the expenses and servants' wages.

  • I have said in my statement, we would be quite ready to buy the hosiery ourselves for cash; but I believe we would get a very small portion of the trade, because, when the people were getting perhaps 1s.

  • I am quite ready, sir," said Polly, in that tone of determination which she was often accustomed to assume, and against which her father rarely or never disputed.

  • Enough, sir; I am quite ready," replied my father, and reseated himself at the table.

  • I am quite ready to fight in the open, and to take my chance of being killed there, but I protest against being shut up like a rat in a hole.

  • I am quite ready to take my chance of being killed fighting, but I should not like to be seized and hacked to pieces in cold blood.

  • If you would like to see the killing, there are some here which are quite ready.

  • The proof that I've no animosity against her is here in this photograph, which I saved from falling into the hands of the police, and which I'm quite ready to give her back if she will come and ask me for it herself.

  • I am quite ready to respect another man's faith; but it is too much to ask that I should respect his doubt, his worldly hesitations and fictions, his political bargain and make-believe.

  • I am quite ready to believe that when Lord Curzon went out he found a very false atmosphere.

  • The Duke of Sussex will be quite ready to be Administrator of Sussex at the same screw.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    equal degree; general intelligence; material conditions; offered upon the altar; quite another; quite ashamed; quite aware; quite contrary; quite correct; quite easily; quite good; quite happy; quite hardy; quite impossible; quite naturally; quite near; quite possible; quite ready; quite right; quite small; quite soft; quite straight; quite sure; quite unknown; situated upon; thousand pieces