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Meanings of make ready in English

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Usage of make ready in English
1
So I know that they make ready to come to this place.
Lord of Light
2
You never see a change in time to make ready for it.
One Man in His Time
3
The deputies make ready to execute the duties committed to their trust.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
4
Bring down the ships from the docks, make ready sword and fire.
The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) / Stories from the Classic...
5
Thereupon they are moved with sympathy and make ready for the fight.
Amerigo Vespucci
6
So on the next day they began to make ready a boat.
Viking Tales
7
She talked about what room she should make ready for the girl.
The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
8
The nurse promised, and began to make ready all that Telemachus wished.
Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) / Classic Tales and Old-F...
9
Well, I go to make ready for this journey to the Baths.
The Wanderer's Necklace
10
I will give you money, you will make ready for the trip.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
11
They began at once to make ready for a discharge of arrows.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
12
And now I must go and think, and hear, and make ready.
King Solomon's Mines
13
Now we will just get to work and make ready for him.
Children of the Tenements
14
Be it so, said Anglides, and I pray you make ready therefore.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2
15
Casualty clearing-stations were ordered to make ready for big numbers of wounded.
Now It Can Be Told
16
Then she left me to make ready before she slept a while.
The Ancient Allan
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United Kingdom
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