Crossjay had informed her of a design he entertained to be off with a horde of boys nesting in high trees, and marking spots where wasps and hornets were to be attacked in Autumn: she thought it a dangerous business, and as the boy's dinner-bell had very little restraint over him when he was in the flush of a scheme of this description, she wished to make tolerably sure of him through the charm she not unreadily believed she could fling on lads of his age.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
It took the three of us to accomplish it, for the window moved unreadily, being seldom raised, as Mrs. Handsomebody regarded fresh air much as she regarded a small boy, as something to be kept in its place.
"Explorers of the Dawn"
Mazo de la Roche
Villagers accept the novel significations which time or fashion gradually confer upon old words very unreadily.
"Grain and Chaff from an English Manor"
Arthur H. Savory