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The adverb "readily" has been used in literature to express a sense of immediacy or ease across a wide range of contexts. In some works, it underlines swift emotional responses or sensitivity—for example, a character whose soul is "readily moved" [1] or one who "readily melted into tears" [2]—while in others it denotes prompt intellectual or physical compliance, as when someone "readily acceded" to a request [3] or an object "readily yields" under pressure [4]. Authors also employ the term to suggest natural or inherent tendencies, such as when actions are performed without hesitation [5, 6, 7] or when processes occur effortlessly in nature or logic [8, 9]. In this way, "readily" serves as a versatile adverb that captures both the immediacy of human emotion and the inherent ease of natural or rational phenomena, enriching narrative descriptions throughout literature [10, 11, 12].
  1. Virginie, whose plebeian soul was readily moved, was weeping copiously amid her cabbages, carrots and onions.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  2. At the pathetic passages of his narrative he readily melted into tears.
    — from Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. He most readily acceded to my request for enlightenment, and suggested that we should read together the Gospel of St. John.
    — from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein
  4. We should remember that the skull at this early age is cartilaginous and flexible, so that it readily yields to muscular action.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  5. Consequently, he sent a messenger to the Persian to say that he desired an interview with him; to which the other readily consented.
    — from Anabasis by Xenophon
  6. People readily made our acquaintance and Ariadne had great social success everywhere.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  7. He readily wrote out the necessary permit.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  8. It is readily solved by the use of continued fractions.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  9. These bases may be favorable in some circumstances, but are equally unfavorable in others, as may be readily seen from what precedes.
    — from The Art of War by baron de Antoine Henri Jomini
  10. “Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
  11. She could not think the Tilneys had acted quite well by her, in so readily giving up their engagement, without sending her any message of excuse.
    — from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  12. Force of character is one of the charms which most readily seduces the truly feminine heart.
    — from On Love by Stendhal

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