unready

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Unready to face their sorrow and unable to share their grief, it’s not until almost halfway in that Frankie and Anne finally reveal exactly what they’re mourning.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2024

In what other reference work would Ethelred the Unready rub shoulders with Jade Goody?

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2017

Unready to start letting go, he even kept Russell’s favorite aquarium fish in the freezer.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2017

Mr Coleman, from Southampton, was taking part in a dig in the Padbury area on 21 December when he found the 5,251 coins depicting the heads of kings Ethelred the Unready and Canute.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2015

Emma, daughter of Richard the Fearless, wife of Ethelred the Unready and Knut; invites her sons to claim the throne of England.

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Yonge, Charlotte Mary