too-ready

The too-ready blood sprayed her cheek, and this made her angrier than did he; for whereas she was sure of the steady grip she had on herself, her flushed face betokened a confusion which did not really possess her.

CHAPTER 4 2010

Bert yelled at the newcomers, himself swept away by passion, his black eyes flashing wildly, his dark face inflamed by the too-ready blood.

CHAPTER IV 2010

From the DEA to Mayor Murphy's prize industrial park, government solutions to Oelwein's problems win Mr. Reding's too-ready assent.

The Heartland's Home Cooking 2009

In the next paragraph, Mr. Kauffman criticizes Mr. Reding for advocating regulation of the materials used to make meth, and writes "From the DEA to Mayor [Larry] Murphy's prize industrial park, government solutions to Oelwein's problems win Mr. Reding's too-ready assent."

Civil Liberties and Freedom From Drugs 2009

Despicable was this programme's too-ready representation of supposition and innuendo as fact.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Barack Obama and others have lamented the too-ready available of unhealthy fast food in poor neighborhoods.

Joel Waldfogel: Escaping the Tyranny of the Market in Baltimore 2008

And such-like consenting negatives, as I may call them, and yet not intend a reflection upon my sister: for what can any young creature in the like circumstances say, when she is not sure but a too-ready consent may subject her to the slights of a sex that generally values a blessing either more or less as it is obtained with difficulty or ease?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

I was confoundedly puzzled, says he, on this occasion, and on her insisting upon the execution of a too-ready offer which I made her go down to Berks, to bring up my cousin Charlotte to visit and attend her.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She could not hold it, determined as she had thought herself, I saw by her eyes, the moment I endeavoured to dissipate her apprehensions, on my too-ready knees, as she calls them.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

By a twinkling motion, I thought to disperse over the whole eye the self-felt too-ready tear: my upper-lip had the motion in it, throbbing, like the pulsation which we call the life blood 1 was afraid to speak, for fear of bursting into a fit of tenderness

Sir Charles Grandison 2006