What wonder that the startling summons found us all unready for such a crisis?

My wife being all unready, did not appear.

Even Pepys-novery sound moralist, though a vast hypocrite-tellsus: Nelly, ' all unready' was 'very pretty, prettier far than he thought.'

We were taken by surprise, all unready, with our men ashore or mixed among the horses, or carrying tubs in the water.

He and his men, caught all unready, clumsy with the burdens that they carried, were shot to pieces; hardly a score of them returned.

"To the women's shift," he writes, "where Nell was dressing herself, and was all unready, and is very pretty, prettier than I thought....