ever-ready

We have to be ever-ready and our armed forces are doing their duty.

Sleep, for the past few days an ever-ready friend, had become a hostile stranger.

The Kodak 35 came with a hard brown leather ever-ready case.

The standard ever-ready case, once found on nearly every 35-millimeter camera, is so porous it offers no help at all.

If wounds slowed a man down, the ever-ready forces of destruction quickly finished the job.

I told you I had always been an ever-ready.

Yet they have money and ever-ready credit cards.

Another call to the ever-ready Bluebelt made the arrangements.

Ever-ready tightened it again and she slid the pickup body another meter toward the tree.

The Gurlys were noted for keen sight and ever-ready suspicion.

It probably quite liked the well-organized zoo-world with its ever-ready food.

My weapon (“Wilhemeina”) stands ever-ready and always close by.

But as Baynes said, he remains ever-ready for whenever he's called on, with help also coming from those flags in the stands.

It could turn on automatically when you glance at it, and be ever-ready for voice commands.

This was a time in his life at which his ever-ready pencil had terrible truths to tell.

They are dirt-cheap, sometimes free, always compliant, ever-ready and disposable.

Between them Krupp's ever-ready tape recorder was spinning away silently.

This time, alerted by Neighbourhood Watch, some members of our ever-ready police force found the welcoming party.

Moses reputedly sketched the design on another of his ever-ready envelopes.

No doubt some people buy multitools to be ever-ready like MacGyver.

She also said Italy's beauty provided a ever-ready paradoxical backdrop for tales of murder.

Tears of an ever-ready sympathy glittered in Bruno's eyes.

We must be ever-ready to fight for what is good, kind, sincere, and be hopeful in whatever we are doing.