Our fleet must be in a position to meet and destroy, as it is well able to do, the Russian and the French fleets.

Now you know what has kept Germany from war for so long." "You are ready for it, then ?" Norgate remarked.
"We are over-ready for it," Selingman continued.

"We are spoiling for it.

We have piled up enormous stores of ordnance, ammunition, and all the appurtenances of warfare.

Our schemes have been cut and dried to the last detail.