Readiest

Here 'readiest' logically belongs to the predicate. ❋ John Milton (1641)

Ability in the global tongue is arguably the readiest means for Inuit-speakers to enter the most effective possible conversation—necessarily one of global scope—affecting their local, high-latitude fates. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

When the demand exceeds the artificially scarce supply, the decision is usually made to choose the most advanced children, the "smartest," the readiest. ❋ Alfie Kohn (2010)

Of an evening when they gathered together his joke was always the readiest, his conversation the brightest, and his song the best. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you ask people why they give, the readiest answers offer clues to the mystery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Foreign aid is, after narcotics, the readiest source of income in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“With the readiest hearkening and obedience,” and pulling out paper and inkcase175 wrote as follows: — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Bearing branches of yew in their hands, as the readiest substitute for palm boughs, they marched respectively to the Dominican and Carthusian convents, to hear High Mass, and, by a show at least of devotion, to prepare themselves for the bloody strife of the day. ❋ Unknown (2008)

White women have been Mrs. Clinton's most reliable base of support and readiest crutch, the superdelegate said. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)

The extreme violence of her brother, which went so far as to menace her personal safety, had united with the previous conflict of passions, to produce a rapture of fear, which probably left her no other free agency, than that which she derived from the blind instinct which urges flight, as the readiest resource in danger. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There were even curraghs, composed of ox hides stretched over hoops of willow, in the manner of the ancient British, and some committed themselves to rafts formed for the occasion, from the readiest materials that occurred, and united in such a precarious manner as to render it probable that, before the accomplishment of the voyage, some of the clansmen of the deceased might be sent to attend their chieftain in the world of spirits. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is no accident that the readiest examples come from the Inklings, Oxford dons steeped in classic and mediaeval traditions, with a Christian conservatism that assigned living value and significance to the old chestnuts they found there. ❋ Superversive (2006)

But when he heard his daughter recommend, as the readiest road to this pacific state of mind, that her lover should renounce the gainful trade in which he was held unrivalled, and which, from the constant private differences and public wars of the time, was sure to afford him a large income, he could withhold his wrath no longer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Persians are the readiest backgammon-players known to me, better even than the Greeks; they throw the dice from the hand and continue foully abusing the fathers and mothers of the “bones” whilst the game lasts. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The readiest explanation for this neglect is that McCarthy's vision is simply too dark for most people. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I looked for his return from France as my sole, at least my readiest, chance of deliverance. — ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have heard my father say, that the readiest mode to corrupt a Christian man is to bestow upon vice the pity and the praise which are due only to virtue. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Camilla embraced her generous Sister; and always readiest for what was speediest, wrote these lines, directed ❋ Unknown (2008)