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• That is quite certain. (10)
• Ormont would too, I am certain. (10)
• Remember a certain war, Stephen! (8)
• Certain phrases had bothered him. (10)
• In a certain measure he was right. (9)
• And Felix felt a certain irritation. (8)
• They depute it to certain officials. (10)
• He fought certain battles, yon senile lord. (10)
• Or, under certain eventualities, the Guards. (10)
• And into those words he put a certain meaning. (8)
• He knew her to allude to certain hopes of fame. (10)
• There was a certain question in the attitude of Mrs. (9)
• Family dinners of the Forsytes observe certain traditions. (8)
• How to apprise him of the certain doom which awaited him? (19)
• I am as certain as I live that it was Rady bribed the Bantam. (10)
• These grades are determined by the presence of certain defects. (17)
• Certain reflections on the narrative are interpreted by a chorus. (3)
• It is certain that in the San Francisco case the precedent was urged. (7)
• She could gaze tenderly, betray her heart, and be certain of safety. (10)
• She was quite worthy of him in the capacity for a certain hypocrisy. (12)
• Sooner or later we shall have her making a noise, you may be certain. (10)
• The only thing I know for certain is, that I shall never go back to him. (8)
• Within a certain distance of one of the carriages, a man rode on horseback. (10)
• The romantic of that day and the real of this are in certain degree the same. (9)
• We have the phrase, that a man is himself under certain trying circumstances. (10)
• How offer himself when he was not perfectly certain that he was worthy of her? (10)
• Lavender watched it disappear with a certain irritation which he subdued at once. (8)
• One thing was certain: Lienhard would watch her breathlessly, nay, tremble for her. (5)
• The three young gentlemen-cricketers had hitherto behaved with a certain propriety. (10)
• Better after, when she could slip away, knowing for certain that her husband had gone. (8)
• But it was not to be denied that there was a certain magic in the innocence of virgins. (12)
• I would accept a part, and step on the boards within a week, and be certain to succeed. (10)
• I am certain I could not have thought of adding anything to them, or at all varying them. (9)
• Certain is the vengeance of the young upon monotony; nothing more certain. (10)
• Greeley, to his honor be it said, refused from the beginning to take certain advertisements. (16)
• Greeting Soames deferentially, he turned the key in the only door with a certain ostentation. (8)
• His method with these gatherings, whether Liberal or Tory, had a certain masterly simplicity. (8)
• He had no tastes whatsoever outside of this business and a certain quiet interest in politics. (13)
• The secret of its manufacture was stringently guarded by certain factories in those countries. (12)
• For Clara would be certain to speak very definitely, and how then could a gentleman oppose her? (10)
• She looked at none of them, yet was he certain that every man who passed would look at her like that. (8)
• There were certain faces, types of discomfort and disease, which appealed from the beginning to the end. (9)
• Ruth hastened to a certain Doctor Voltolini in Gleim Street who was known to her, and brought him back with her. (12)
• She was certain of a quiver in his grasp; but his face was open and serene, his voice as usual when he was teasing. (8)
• Even in the blank of certain years, when I added little other reading to my store, I must still have been reading it. (9)
• There will always be in direct accountability a certain sense of obligation lacking to the anonymous and impersonal. (16)
• They were reckoning him as certain, but with her it was a gnawing solicitude never appeased for five minutes together. (4)
• In certain cases the spell lasts for many years, in others for a few, and in others yet it prolongs itself indefinitely. (9)
• And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our Civil War, so that one should not hesitate in choosing! (10)
• A certain democracy of looks and clothes was the most notable thing to March in the apathetic groups and detached figures. (9)
• His object in coming to England, he assured me honestly, was to study certain editions of Tibullus in the British Museum. (10)
• Certain looks of those eyes recently, when in colloquy with my lord, removed the towering nobleman to a shadowed landscape. (10)
• There is no proof that she meant more, but it is certain that our manners and customs go for more in life than our qualities. (9)
• In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving. (4)
• In conjunction with certain friends of the signora, the count worked diligently for the immediate restitution of the estates. (10)
• His dogged instinct had fought against the knowledge as long as he could, and now that it was certain he fought against it still. (8)
• The carpenter who builds in wood to-day builds according to certain customs which come down to him from centuries of carpenters. (17)
• By that simple if wholesale device James Forsyte had secured a certain stability in the lives of his daughter and his grandchildren. (8)
• Some architects prefer to have a certain number of wall lights controlled by one switch, and obtain a general glow with these lamps. (17)
• For if Constantia was like certain of the ladies whom he had rendered unhappy, triumphed over, as it is queerly called, Clara was not. (10)
• His technic is noticeable chiefly for its superficial glitter of brilliant passages, which constitute a certain development in themselves. (3)
• He understood that Renee had staked her glove on his coming within a certain number of hours to the briefest wording of invitation possible. (10)
• Master Gammon bade him go to a certain churchyard in Sussex, and inspect a particular tombstone, upon which the ages of his ancestry were written. (10)
• In the case of Jeff Durgin the excess was intentional beyond the vague benevolence which prompted the giver of the party to ask certain other outsiders. (9)
• Yet has it haphazard proprietary instincts of its own, and a certain possessive prosperity which keeps its rents up when those of other quarters go down. (8)
• The scene had lost nothing of the beauty they dimly remembered; there were certain features of it which seemed even fairer and grander than they remembered. (9)
• In a great jobbing centre, one of the most prominent cases of the United States District Attorney was the prosecution of certain firms for misbranding goods. (16)

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