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