readyhanded

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“The door of grace turns upon smooth hinges wide opening to fend out, but soon shutting to recall⟳ the precious offers of mercy to a nation: which, unless watchfulness and zeal, two quicksighted and readyhanded virgins, be there in our behalf to receive⟳, we lose⟳: and still the oftener we lose⟳, the straiter the door opens, and the less is offered.”

“And mankind shuddered; but the gods laughed; for Septimius was but a knife that Pompey had sharpened; and when it turned against his own⟳ throat they said that Pompey had better have⟳ made Septimius a ploughman than so brave and readyhanded a slayer.”

“Nor is any man alive who may not, or ought not to, see⟳ the express⟳ image of himself in this self-sufficing Vasco, with his faith in the cross, his confidence in himself and his readyhanded use⟳ of means.”

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