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Sentences starting with certain

Certain it is, when reading them, I live his life over again. [9]
Certain thumb-worn schedules were referred to. [9]
Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city which have been pointed out as fitting descriptions in that novel. [9]
Certain of its valleys produced no end of hay, and this attracted small colonies of Mormon stock-raisers and farmers to them. [5]
Certain people impress us as the winds do. [4]
Certain guttural sounds, too, which from time to time ascended through the floor of the caravan, and a rustling of straw in the same direction, apprised her that the driver was couched upon the ground beneath, and gave her an additional feeling of security. [12]
Certain facts began to stand out clearly from the confusion. [9]
Certain fishes, belonging to several families, make nests, and some of them take care of their young when hatched. [1]
Certain analogies between this selecting power and the phenomena of endosmosis in the elective affinities of chemistry we can find, but the problem of force remains here, as everywhere, unsolved and insolvable. [3]
Certain troops of the heretics had already crossed the borders, and our good town had to strengthen its walls and dig its moat deeper to make ready for storm and siege. [10]

Sentences ending with certain

That she could write most agreeably is certain. [6]
Becky supposed she would be glad of that, and she tried to believe she was glad of it, but she found she was not certain. [5]
Who is the woman--for you've got a woman in it, that's certain? [11]
For to-day we will close the temple gates, solemnize the festival among ourselves, and allow no one to enter our precincts for sacrifice and prayer till the fate of the sisters is made certain. [10]
He had a way with him, and he had brains, had Jacques Grassette, and he could manage men, as Michelin the lumber-king himself had found in a great river-row and strike, when bloodshed seemed certain. [11]
He was angry--that was certain. [9]
She gave herself up for lost; but whatever fate might have in store for her, life lay open before him; he would have time to prove his splendid powers, and that he would do so, as she would have him do it, she felt certain. [10]
On occasion the tones of his voice told her, the look that came into his eyes proclaimed it to her, his feverishness and restlessness made it certain. [11]
I dozed off to sleep while contemplating a great white stuffed owl which was looking intently down on me from a high perch with the air of a person who thought he had met me before, but could not make out for certain. [5]
The pipe belonged to a tug, that was certain. [9]

Short sentences using certain

Am I certain of it? [5]
Certain things did not happen. [11]
A certain restlessness had vanished. [11]
There are certain drawbacks--" "Drawbacks! [9]
This is not certain. [9]
The information is certain. [7]
One thing is certain. [6]
I am not certain. [12]
Fifty, then, are certain. [10]
Only the attitudes are certain. [5]

Sentences containing certain two or more times

I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
Later on she would know, and delight to confess, that her destiny was fixed at a certain hour, at a certain moment, in New York, for subsequent events would run back to that like links in a chain. [4]
Now, these things Trumbull says were stated by Bigler upon the floor of the Senate on certain days, and that they are recorded in the Congressional Globe on certain pages. [7]
He had understood this before to a certain point, had read himself to a certain mark of gauge, but he had never been honestly and truly a man until this moment. [11]
This indeed is the case to a certain extent with some birds, as we have seen with the peahen, wild turkey, and certain kinds of grouse. [1]
The author agreed that the publisher should have the exclusive right to publish his book for a certain term, or to make and sell a certain number of copies. [4]
What is it that leads us to a certain man or woman at a certain time, or to open a certain book? [9]
I am certain that her interest in Belle Treherne was real, and likewise certain that she cherished no pique against her because I had transferred my allegiance. [11]
Nor is it surprising that a slightly injurious character should have been thus acquired; for we know that this is the case with the plumes of certain birds, and with the horns of certain stags. [1]
With respect to sounds, Helmholtz has explained to a certain extent on physiological principles, why harmonies and certain cadences are agreeable. [1]

More example sentences with the word certain in them

The lepers in Zoan, Pha-kos and Phibeseth followed the others at a certain distance, and their tents are pitched outside the camp. [10]
I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
How certain is your information about Bragg being in the valley of the Shenandoah? [7]
I saw that your eyes were not opened, but I think I had a certain presentiment, for which I do not pretend to account, that they would be opened. [9]
Now, I ask you, what joys can I look forward to, and what certain happiness am I justified in hoping for? [10]
For certain reasons you will next go and do homage at this well. [5]
Though I write you these few words, dear Robert, I do not know that they will reach you, for as yet it is not certain they will let Voban visit you. [11]
I am sure you mean well, but are you quite certain that you know how to execute such a trust as this? [12]
I am certain you feel this truth in your heart of hearts. [14]
And do not you believe that his name thus compulsorily placed at the head of the Independent column would work absolutely certain defeat to Blain and save the country's honor? [5]
Only just now you appeared to consider certain words uttered last night in reference to a lady--" "Let that pass," interrupted Heinz with marked emphasis. [10]
He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
We skip ten years and this history finds certain changes to record. [5]
For a whole year he was haunted with a desire to disfigure a certain young woman, so that no one would marry her. [5]
Moreover, certain men wrote some books at that time. [2]
His letter is written to a burglar named Williams, who is serving a nine-year term in a certain State prison, for burglary. [5]
For no consideration would he have left this duty to another, for it was to communicate to Titianus, who had offended him, the intelligence that Caesar had deprived him of the office of prefect, and intended to examine into certain complaints of his administration. [10]
She thought it would be delightful, and promised to wait for me at a certain place outside of the city. [10]
An early movement would also help to supersede the bad moral effect of there certain, which is said to be considerably injurious. [7]
Perhaps it is worth while, in view of certain recent discussions, and especially of some free criticisms of this country, to consider whether there is any intention of progress in this world, and whether that intention is discoverable in the age in which we live. [4]
It was far worse than he could have imagined, the way his wife took the affair, though he had imagined certain words, or perhaps only looks, from her that were bad enough. [8]
Lest the envious world should not believe his own story, Smith had Baker, his steward, and several of his crew examined before a magistrate at Plymouth, December 8, 1615, who support his story by their testimony up to a certain point. [4]
When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
It was a woman's reason, and it was not without a certain exquisite egotism and vanity, for she remembered so well the letter she had written him--every word was etched into her mind; and she knew by heart every word of his reply. [11]
They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. [2]
I am not without talent for drawing, and even at that time it was an easy matter to reproduce anything which had caught my eye, not only distinctly, but sometimes attractively and with a certain degree of fidelity to nature. [10]
A kindly note, withal, if non-committal,--to the effect that he had received certain communications, but that his physician would not permit him to return for another ten days or so. [9]
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. [7]
His recent interview with the Doctor, certain remarks which had been dropped in his hearing, but above all an unaccountable impression upon his spirits, all combined to fill his mind with a foreboding conviction that he was very near some overshadowing danger. [6]
In our dealings with other nations, we yielded often to imperialistic ambitions and thus, to a certain extent, justified the cynicism of Europe. [9]
His answer, bringing with it her remembrance of her husband at certain times when it was not safe to question him, had silenced her. [9]
He did this with increasing satisfaction, for though Coello's sketches possessed a certain hardness, they were boldly devised and pleased him. [10]
He carried home with him a certain disquiet, to which he had been for months a stranger. [4]
He was taken with her in a certain' measure, in a certain way; the question was in what measure, in what way. [8]
Dicky was dining with Fielding at the Turf Club, when a telegram came saying that cholera had appeared at a certain village on the Nile. [11]
The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages. [2]
And came back with certain annotations on the margin, which were duly incorporated into it. [9]
The episode deals with an easy-mannered gentleman named Potts, who was the agent for a certain Major Colfax of Virginia. [9]
He read it with an air of singular effort, and yet with a certain tenderness. [6]
Asa Waring looked with a stern distaste upon certain aspects of modern life. [9]
For some days, with a certain sense of isolation and a tinge of envy which she would not acknowledge, she had been watching a group of well-dressed, clean-looking people galloping off on horseback or filling the six-seated buckboards. [9]
But what I wish to say is, that notwithstanding certain unfavorable things in the condition of the English laborer and mechanic, his chance is better in the main than it was fifty years ago. [4]
And on this wise he gave us to know for certain that the vast sum demanded was not an error on his part. [10]
There were certain wise and cynical atheists who did not attend the sessions at all except when they received mysterious hints to do so. [9]
A certain Herr Winckler is said to have lost his life. [10]
He expressed his willingness to dispose of the copyright, to publish on shares, or perhaps to receive a certain percentage on the profits. [6]
If the reader will turn back to the end of the fourth number of these papers, he will find certain lines entitled, "Cacoethes Scribendi. [6]
You are the wife of Verus Caesar; you are certain of it if no signs and omens come to frighten Hadrian. [10]
One lady (a widow) was quite certain she should stab him if he hinted at it. [12]
Much as the Widow was pleased with the costume belonging to her condition, she did not disguise from herself that under certain circumstances she might be willing to change her name again. [6]
Not quite certain why he stayed, but talking on reflectively, Gaston at last said: "You will be coming to us to-night, of course? [11]
Yet, on the whole, I felt a certain complacency about it all; I knew that suffering was disagreeable, I had learned how to avoid it, and I may have had, deep within me, a feeling that I might marry her after all. [9]
But on the whole there was a certain exhilaration in the preparation and the going, and her spirits rose as they had not done in months before. [4]
A reverend friend, who thought I had certain projects in my head, wrote to me about lecturing: where I should appear, what fees I should obtain, and such business matters. [6]
No doubt those who signed the document understood that the second clause limited the first, and that men are created equal only in respect to certain rights. [4]
In a little while we were speeding through the streets of Paris and delightfully recognizing certain names and places with which books had long ago made us familiar. [5]
She caught it while I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out--or it might have been four, she isn't certain which. [5]
Among the papers which your old servant Hib brought with him in a small box, there must be some letters from a certain Sonnophre, a celebrated accoucheur, your own father, which . [10]
A certain sentiment which we may call pride was so strong in him that he felt ready to make almost any sacrifice to prevent it. [9]
A certain thing which was sure to happen sooner or later happened now. [5]
Like Balancing Rock, which waited darkly over the steep gorge, ready to close forever the outlet to Deception Pass, that nameless thing, as certain yet intangible as fate, must fall and close forever all doubts and fears of the future. [13]
If certain things, which seem to me essential to a millennium, had come to pass, I should have been frightened; but they haven't. [6]
A certain sullenness which Rudyard and no one else had ever seen came into her eyes, and her lips became white with an ominous determination. [11]
After the fish, which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with the other committeemen. [2]
A marble mantel, which holds a clock and certain ornaments, is just beyond this door. [9]
The same logic which had carried him to certain conclusions with reference to human nature, this same irresistible logic carried him straight on from his text until he arrived at those other results, which not only astonished his people, as was said, but surprised himself. [6]
The centrifugal principle which grows out of the antipathy of like to like is only the repetition in character of the arrangement we see expressed materially in certain seed-capsules, which burst and throw the seed to all points of the compass. [6]
The manner in which certain letters or sounds change when others change is very like correlated growth. [1]
For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine. [6]
It maybe questioned whether these views have not interfered with the sound training of certain young persons, sons of clergymen and others. [6]
I knew well where I was, and at once started off in a northwesterly direction, toward the St. Charles River, making for a certain farmhouse above the town. [11]
At the hour when the ladies went to their rooms the day was just beginning for a certain class of the habitues. [4]
During those weeks when I was making my first desperate attempts at briefing up the law I was sometimes interrupted by his exclamations when certain figures went by in the corridor. [9]
He was experiencing what one or another drowsing, geographically ignorant alien experiences every day in the year when he turns a dull and indifferent eye out of the car window and it falls upon a certain station-sign which reads "Stratford-on-Avon! [5]
He figures up what all these taxes ought to amount to in a certain district. [5]
It was at Werowocomoco that Smith observed certain conjurations of the medicine men, which he supposed had reference to his fate. [4]
All these effects were produced by impressions on the organs of sense, seemingly by direct agency on certain nerve centres. [6]
He says there were certain modifications made in the bill in committee that he did not vote for. [7]
In these ranks were certain maiden ladies and widows who found in church work an outlet to an otherwise circumscribed existence. [9]
For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
The Boyne Works were buying up coal-mines, and this was a contract looking to the purchase of one in Putman County, provided, after a certain period of working, the yield and quality should come up to specifications. [9]
These great avenues were at all times, from three till seven, filled with vehicles; and at certain points, and late in the day, there was, or would have been anywhere else except in Paris, a jam. [4]
But his perceptions were as keen as Nelson Langmaid's, and like Langmaid, he had gradually become conscious of a certain baffling personality in the new rector of St. John's. [9]
When the Colonel went away they were engaged to be married, as soon as he could make certain arrangements which he represented to be necessary, and quit the army. [5]
But he likes well that "they do not observe the confecting of the Ointment under any certain constellation; which is commonly the excuse of magical medicines, when they fail, that they were not made under a fit figure of heaven. [6]
We see this well illustrated in certain breeds of the fowl. [1]
Yes, he might well be certain of his success! [10]
We might as well attempt without any definition to decide whether a certain number of houses should be called a village, town, or city. [1]
You know as well as I that there is no money to pay them," said he, with a certain pompous attempt at severity which characterized his kind nature. [9]
Before him, as well as before me, hovered--since you wish to know it--in Alexandria, when we first began to model the head of the goddess, a certain charming face which is as dear to one as to the other. [10]
Crosses or Mr. Weekes's acarus should show himself all of a sudden, as they said he did, in certain mineral mixtures acted on by electricity. [6]
What these were we need not stop to mention,--only remarking that there were dresses of various patterns, which might afford an agreeable series of changes, and in certain contingencies prove eminently useful. [6]
You know how we live at our house, plainly, but with a certain degree of cultivated propriety. [6]
We discussed everything we knew, during the first fifteen or twenty minutes, that morning, and then branched out into the glad, free, boundless realm of the things we were not certain about. [5]
With certain persons we are lifted up, inspired to face the battle of life and overcome its difficulties. [9]
In a certain way, an insult, though incredibly stimulating. [9]
They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
In no other way could certain phases of our society be made to appear so distinctly as when reflected in the once pure mirror of a woman's soul. [4]
I used to watch Mr. Grosvenor Kyme as he sat at the end of the dinner-table, dark, preoccupied, taciturn, symbolical of a wealth new to my experience, and which had about it a certain fabulous quality. [9]

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