ready-handed

“Abdul Kader, the tailor who had attached himself to me, as a man ready-handed at all things, from mending a pair of pants, making a delicate entremets, or shooting an elephant, but whom the interior proved to be the weakliest of the weakly, unfit for anything except eating and drinking — almost succumbed on this march.”

“And ready money had been so much more plentiful of late, owing to poor John Morton's ready-handed honesty!”

“Higher education— general, professional, and technical— whether under public or private auspices must be helped to grow both in quantity and quality until it is able to meet full and ready-handed the problem of training the leadership of our democracy.”

“Each arm well-sinewed, Each heart as a lion's ; Fiercely and wildly, Ready-handed and boldly, On each field be triumphant, Wherever you chance to be, Horo, make ready to go.”