One more heavy gun had sounded from the seaward battery of the castle, but her garrison had been in a genuinely Mexican condition of Unreadiness, and it was several minutes before they could bring up more ammunition and make further use of their really excellent artillery.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
But on the western side there was next to nothing, and it was a sign to me of the utter Unreadiness of France that now at the eleventh hour when I passed thousands of men were digging trenches in the roads and fields with frantic haste, and throwing up earthworks along the banks of the Seine.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
He had been such a proficient in all the Rugby games, that he couldn't realize the fact of his Unreadiness in a boat.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes