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Example sentences for "certain that"

  • I remember nothing in his works which even suggests such association; and it is certain that a few hours spent at a fair would at all times have exhausted his capability of enduring it.

  • It is certain that he profoundly admired this writer, and if he was not, at some time or other, introduced to him it was because the opportunity did not occur.

  • Everything is too beautiful to be real, and I am certain that a dreadful Cinderella awakening is in store for me.

  • Had it been, as I have said, any other nation but the Senecas, I am certain that I could have restrained the Indian.

  • But now, to Lois, she said very sweetly: "I am certain that we are to become friends if you wish it as much as I do.

  • But I am certain that none of us wished to be delivered from our captivity, for we were extremely happy, and Peterkin used to say that as we were very young we should not feel the loss of a year or two.

  • For it is certain that, in every change, that out of which the thing changes must be before the thing changing.

  • It is certain that no second instance of this sort was ever witnessed by us.

  • Whether the disorder had passed its crisis, or whether the fern-root effected a cure, I know not; but it is certain that he became speedily well.

  • It is certain that he latterly estimated our professional gentlemen very highly.

  • It is certain that at that moment he was more grotesque and repulsive than pitiable, with his face purple and dripping, his eye wild, his mouth foaming with rage and pain, and his tongue lolling half out.

  • I suppose that the entity of the poet may be represented by the number ten; it is certain that a chemist on analyzing and pharmacopolizing it, as Rabelais says, would find it composed of one part interest to nine parts of self-esteem.

  • It is certain that he had frequently been seen to pass along the Rue des Lombards, and furtively enter a little house which formed the corner of the Rue des Ecrivans and the Rue Marivault.

  • It is certain that in architectural epochs, the poems, rare it is true, resemble the monuments.

  • It is certain that if the soul had not already quitted this inert, sluggish, lethargic body, it had at least retreated and concealed itself in depths whither the perceptions of the exterior organs no longer penetrated.

  • And it is certain that he showed as little disposition to enable his nephew to live by a profession as to enable him to live without a profession.

  • It is certain that, whoever might originally have been in the right, Prussia had submitted.

  • It is certain that we seek our own happiness in everything we do; and it is as certain, that we can only find it in doing well, and in conforming all our actions to the rule of right reason, which is the great law of nature.

  • I wonder at none of them for parting; but I wonder at many for still living together; for in this country it is certain that marriage is not well understood.

  • His Royal Highness the Duke is hourly expected here: his arrival will make some bustle; for I believe it is certain that he is resolved to make a push at the Duke of N.

  • And it is certain that people of business know the importance of secrecy, and will observe it, where they are concerned in the event.

  • It is certain that Mr Toots, by some remote and roundabout road, had got to that point, and that there he made a stand.

  • Now it is certain that Mr Toots had a filmy something in his mind, which led him to conclude that if he could aspire successfully in the fulness of time, to the hand of Florence, he would be fortunate and blest.

  • It is impossible to say now what would have been the result if Lee's orders had been obeyed as given; but it is certain that we would have been in Spottsylvania, and between him and his capital.

  • It is certain that to one person, and to one only, the King confided the momentous resolution which he had taken; and it can hardly be doubted that this person was Caermarthen.

  • It is certain that he professed himself willing to yield.

  • You may be certain that I waited with impatience for the ensuing Friday.

  • From what I have seen of Raymond de las Cisternas, I am certain that he will readily acknowledge Antonia for his Niece.

  • He knew his power, that boy; and he stepped forward to his stand when he pleased, certain that he would be forgiven as soon as he began to sing.

  • It is certain that Margaret's beauty was not classic.

  • It is certain that a new light, a tender light, was cast upon her world.

  • Whatever happens," said a very distinguished man to me, "we may be certain that it's our skins which will pay for it as usual.

  • And I am certain that my companions, near as they are to me, felt no other trouble but the suppressed excitement of pleasurable anticipation.

  • It is certain that there is nothing in the idea of a pre-existent state that excites our longing like the prospect of a posthumous existence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both arms; business life; certain bodies; certain breeds; certain extent; certain fungi; certain number; certain objects; certain phases; certain portions; certain price; certain relation; certain rules; certain size; certain sort; certain special; certain spot; certain temperature; certainly not; clear understanding; fine sight; marine deposits; metal work; mother country; never failed; white woman