"Ready and waiting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... told me to go off to Podgoritza if I wanted to see the first shot fired. When I arrived there on October 6th all was ready and waiting. Another proof that the "four days' ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith
... moist lips caressing the palm of his hand as they close over the morsel of bread. In the gray dawn he is roused from his bivouac by the gentle stir of a warm, sweet breath over his sleeping face, and looks up into the eyes of his faithful fellow-traveller, ready and waiting for the toil of the day. Surely, unless he is a pagan and an unbeliever, by whatever name he calls upon his God, he will thank Him for this voiceless sympathy, this dumb affection, and his morning prayer will embrace a double ...
— The Story of the Other Wise Man • Henry Van Dyke
... not drive very far, and on our return found that Sylvia had tea all ready and waiting for us. The old colored woman was quite tasty in her ideas, and had garnished an immense dish of strawberries with flowers and leaves, through which the red fruit gleamed most temptingly forth. After tea, when Cousin Statia had taken up her ...
— A Grandmother's Recollections • Ella Rodman
... answered the man. "The King and his court may come at any time now, and they must find me ready and waiting for them ...
— Tales of Folk and Fairies • Katharine Pyle
... the Villa Trianon is a fairy-tale come true. It came true because we believed in it—many fairy stories are ready and waiting to come true if only people will believe ...
— The House in Good Taste • Elsie de Wolfe
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