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Sentences ending with certainty

Well, it was touching to see the queen blush and smile, and look embarrassed and happy, and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot that would have got him shot in Arkansas, to a dead certainty. [5]
Many of those to which his name was not attached can no longer be identified with any approach to certainty. [4]
We have got to wait six weeks, anyhow, for a dividend, maybe longer--but that it will come there is no shadow of a doubt, I have got the thing sifted down to a dead moral certainty. [5]
Carnac was keyed to anxiety, but outwardly seemed moving with brilliant certainty. [11]
But the other thing, the Logan Trial business, is a dead certainty. [11]
He met the swift strokes of the dervish with a cool certainty. [11]
But why castration should lead to the reappearance of an early condition of the horns cannot be explained with any certainty. [1]
Cumner's Son had recognised the voice, and his eye followed its direction with a perfect certainty. [11]
Nothing is proved or provable but by numbers, but they are surer than the rocks in the sea; that is why I believe in our coming doom, for, on those tablets, we have calculated it to a certainty. [10]
During the silent night her worst fears became certainty. [10]

Sentences containing certainty two or more times

My heart overflowed as I saw, look which way I might, no perils, none, nothing, verily nothing that was not well-ordered and brought to a good end, nothing that was not a certainty, and such a blessed certainty! [10]

More example sentences with the word certainty in them

I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
If she had written Science and Health, the oldest man in the world would not be able to tell with certainty what any passage in it was intended to mean. [5]
And I know with still greater certainty that once--you hear me--once, he succeeded in bending the will of these rulers of his to his own. [10]
A hundred signs--I will tell you about it later--make it a certainty to me. [10]
The tender smile which played on his features filled her soul with the certainty that he would vouchsafe to be gracious; nay, she could believe that he moved those marble lips and promised to grant her prayer. [10]
The certainty that when I was no more what I possessed would be divided as I wished was a ray of light in this gloomy time. [10]
If he had wealth, that would be almost a certainty, and he counted Sheila's gold as a guarantee of power. [11]
How often do we spoil our best chances by following an urgent instinct to arrive at certainty as early as possible, and by not being strong enough to postpone opening our business till a favorable moment offers. [10]
But the doubt was worse, perhaps, than certainty would have been,--for then he would have known what to do. [6]
But the advantage was with Iberville, not merely because of more practice,--Gering made up for that by a fine certainty of nerve,--but because he had a prescient quality of mind, joined to the calculation of the perfect gamester. [11]
But now--now something was brought home to her of the magnificent certainty with which they must first have been spoken, of the tone and bearing and authority of him who had uttered them. [9]
In the tone was a quiet certainty suggesting that she would not hesitate to answer. [11]
My wrath flared up, for our house this day was of a certainty the last where such merriment was fitting. [10]
Endless doubt and unrest here below; wondering, admiring, adoring certainty above.--Am I not right? [6]
Still Philip's conscience told him that it was his plain duty to carry the matter into the courts, even with the certainty of defeat. [5]
The two triumphs together with finish the Standard-Bearer--modify him, anyway, to a certainty, and give the rest of us a chance for the future. [5]
I could afford to smile at the weather, at the obsidian sky, at the rain still falling persistently; and yet, as I ate my breakfast, I felt a certain impatience to verify what I knew was a certainty, and hurried to the telephone booth. [9]
Therefore it belongs to history no less certainty than the French Revolution and its consequences. [10]
Nick took easily to accomplishments, and he handled the clumsy tiller with a certainty and distinction that made the boatmen swear in two languages and a patois. [9]
Something warped and thwarted the emotion which would have been love in another, no doubt; but that such an emotion was striving with her against all malign influences which interfered with it the old woman had a perfect certainty in her own mind. [6]
The cost of this structure would soon be recouped by the saving in labor, and with perfect certainty, if only the transport-ships were laden at Clysma with a profitable return freight of Alexandrian manufactures, instead of returning empty as they had hitherto done. [10]
And this is the reason that we cannot with any certainty tell what any person will do or amount to, for, while we know his talents and abilities, we do not know the resulting whole, which is he himself. [4]
While kneeling at the prie-dieu, she had reached the certainty that her patron saint had led Heinz Schorlin to her. [10]
I learned with the most dreadful certainty what people really thought of me. [4]
The letters of the latter show that scarcely one of them but contains the outline of some rainbow-chasing scheme, full of wild optimism, and the certainty that somewhere just ahead lies the pot of gold. [5]
If you do that, you will never have to give him the last and sharpest pain a parent can know-- I mean, the certainty that his son is dead. [5]
What was greater than the certainty of being beloved by the greatest of men? [10]
The oracle, the stars, and other signs announced some terrible catastrophe for the coming year with a certainty that he could not evade; and the few careless days that he had been permitted to enjoy at Lochias had ended with unsatisfactory occurrences. [10]
Holes, so to speak, were dug in New England, and in the middle South, and along the frontier, and such leads were found that again and again the certainty arose that at last the real American ore had been discovered. [4]
Her own worth seemed clearer to her than ever before, from a comparison with these miserable creatures, and a wonderful certainty of ultimate victory stole into her heart, for Nitetis was a firm believer in the magic power of virtue. [10]
Her features were regular, her eyes of a greyish violet, her chin strong, yet not too strong--the chin of a singer; her hands had that charming quiet certainty of movement possessed by so few; and her colour was of the most delightful health. [11]
Yet it was precise and hugely expert too; for though there was a strange mist on the brain, the body felt its way with a singular certainty, as might some molluscan dweller of the sea, sensitive like a plant, intuitive like an animal. [11]
This discovery made plain the right and wise course to pursue in order to acquire certainty and exactness in understanding the statements which the newspaper was daily endeavoring to convey to me: I must catch a Verb and tame it. [5]
Her instinct had pierced far; and as she realised his suspicions, perhaps his certainty, and heard his words of covert insult, which, as she saw, David did not appreciate, anger and determination grew in her. [11]
There are dreamy-eyed people to whom I should say all these things with a certainty of being understood;-- That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me To him my tale I teach. [6]
Who can speak or write with any certainty of the feminine character, or declare what unexpected twists perversity and curiosity may give to it? [9]
The Persian part of this inscription can still be deciphered with certainty, and contains an account of the events related in the last few chapters, very nearly agreeing with our own and that of Herodotus. [10]
And how many of these careless, flitting men of fashion I looked upon could feel the ground firm beneath their feet; or could say with certainty what a change of ministers, or one wild night at White's or Almack's, would bring forth? [9]
In the middle of the lawn she stopped short once as if in doubt what to do--as a thought-reader pauses in his search for the mental scent again, ere he rushes upon the object of his search with the certainty of instinct. [11]
A strange certainty of deliverance filled her heart; she thought the god Ra had sent the bird to her, and that as a happy spirit she should take that form. [10]
The baying, emphasized now by the yelp of certainty, came nearer. [4]
I can do nothing, nothing at all, and guide my instruments with hardly more certainty than a sculptor condemned to work in the dark. [10]
Yet she did not regret it; true, she cared no more for Pyramus Kogel than for any one else--the certainty that he, too, had succumbed to the spell of her beauty was associated with a feeling of pleasure whose charm she knew and valued. [10]
The history of no other life of that remote time is known with either the certainty or the comprehensiveness that attaches to hers. [5]
Throughout the long night he had known, for a certainty, that this woman was a vital part of him, flame of his flame. [9]
And now, when New England is prosperous and a certainty, "what think you I undertook when nothing was known, but that there was a vast land. [4]
Then I began my search with a feverish excitement that was brimful of expectation--almost of certainty. [5]
She would not miss or forget a detail of the lesson, she would take it all in with her eye and her mind, and apply it afterward with as much certainty and confidence as if she had already practised it. [5]
Our certainty also misleads us to constrain others to think as we think, and to despise them and persecute them when they differ from us. [10]
It is a matter of absolute certainty that it is a disturbing element. [7]
Thus had my lord Cardinal commanded, and the work was so excellent that, if the Saint herself vouchsafed to look down on it out of Heaven, of a certainty it was pleasing in her eyes. [10]
To take the life of one of their prisoners on the assumption that they murder ours, when it is short of certainty that they do murder ours, might be too serious, too cruel, a mistake. [7]
In his third letter one can almost hear Hay's chuckle in the certainty that his diplomatic, if somewhat wicked, suggestion would bear fruit. [5]
We know at least with certainty that this was the case with those leading to the temples. [10]
One thing he learned with certainty. [6]
She did not learn what had happened until she went to mass, and then it weighed heavily upon her heart that she had not given Wolf her assistance, especially as she suspected, with strange certainty, that she herself was connected with this terrible misfortune. [10]
But he was known as Gaspard the pilot, and on those rare occasions when a vessel did anchor in the bay, he performed his duties with such a certainty as to leave unguessed how many deathtraps crouched near that shore. [11]
So then I knew for a certainty that you dictated the Reply yourself. [5]
There was a kind of devilry at Iberville's large and sensuous mouth, but his eyes were steady and provoking, and while Gering's words went forth pantingly, Iberville's were slow and concise, and chosen with the certainty of a lapidary. [11]
Cases of this kind occur in the Order which includes man, namely in certain genera of monkeys; whilst in other genera, as in Cercopithecus, most of the species can be determined with certainty. [1]
He now approached Katuti with the certainty of success, like a merchant who means to acquire some costly object, and feels that he is rich enough to pay for it. [10]
The certainty that Kasana was wicked and faithless, which had so unexpectedly forced itself upon Ephraim, had suddenly turned his heart from her and startled him back into the right path which he had abandoned. [10]
To us, indeed, it was as yet a mystery, but that it was sweet and full of joy we deemed a certainty. [10]
Solomon says there is "a time to keep silence," and when men wrangle by the mouth with no certainty that they mean the same thing while using the same word, it perhaps were as well if they would keep silence. [7]
By it the innocent are proved innocent, without doubt or question, for they drown; and the guilty are proven guilty with the same certainty, for they do not drown. [5]
The vast expenditures incident to the military and naval operations required for the suppression of the rebellion have hitherto been met with a promptitude and certainty unusual in similar circumstances, and the public credit has been fully maintained. [7]
Last night--the night in which once before such terrors were wrought, the stars confirmed the fatal oracle with as much naked plainness, as much unmistakable certainty as if they had tongues to shout the evil forecast in my ear. [10]
He lost himself in contradictory statements, and although he did not directly admit it, he left his interrogator in the certainty that Hadrian was in Alexandria. [10]
What was that in comparison to the certainty that to the last Charles did not forget her! [10]
He troubled her in a way too, for his sane certainty, set against her aspiring credulity, arrested, even commanded, her sometimes. [11]
So it was impossible to determine at present whether Chello had seen the finished statues or not, yet Hermon desired the former with actual fervour, that he might have positive certainty. [10]
You know that I have learned to love a man; and many things, and, the certainty that the gods are good, have come to me with that love. [10]
Through it the hovering, protecting sense becomes instinctive, and prescience takes on uncanny certainty. [11]
Some said he hoarded gold somewhere about the old house, but nobody knew this for a certainty. [6]
He had laid his plans, as he thought, with perfect skill, and the certainty of their securing their end. [6]
The thought of his lost inheritance doubtless flitted through his mind, but it seemed merely like worthless dust, and the certainty that Myrtilus still walked among the living filled him with unclouded happiness. [10]
Rage was in his heart, and it blinded him to the certainty of his defeat, for he was not expert in the lists. [11]
Herdegen's love for his brother had, of a certainty, suffered no breach; but, like many another disciple of Minerva, he was disposed to look down on the votaries of Mercury. [10]
The object of her ambush was gained: she knew now with perfect certainty who was "the other. [10]
But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat--at least, not with certainty. [5]
She could not help thinking of the time when she could fall asleep on her mother's bosom in the certainty that tender love was watching over her. [10]
Many an one held it for a certainty that Satan himself had been his treasurer. [10]
Then she had heard a slight sound in the court, which any one else would not have noticed; but she not only perceived it, but knew with perfect certainty with whom it originated. [10]
The conviction that he was attacked by robbers flashed on his consciousness as immediately as the sense of pain, and with it the certainty that he was a lost man if he did not defend himself stoutly. [10]
And long after he had passed this canyon and felt secure once more in the certainty that they had been unobserved he never relaxed his watchfulness. [13]
The last result he can arrive at is the probability--since certainty there is none--that it is impossible ever to know anything, be it what it may. [10]
And yet--he would have willingly borne it all, and more, for the certainty that she had really loved him once; that her heart had been his, if only for one short hour. [10]
For you will have come to know, with a deep and restful certainty, that you are not going to meet two people sick of the same theory, one right after the other. [5]
Ann clapped her hands but lightly, sat looking into her lap, and for some time could say not a word; indeed, if she had trusted herself to speak the game would of a certainty have been lost. [10]
Indeed, although Edith had seen Gilbert Fletcher only a few times since her marriage, she felt that she could go to him any time if she were in trouble, with the certainty of sympathy and help. [4]
How often she had rejoiced over the certainty that this son, on whom Antony, after his victory over the Parthians, had bestowed the title of Co-Regent, would never rebel against his mother's guardianship! [10]
Nevertheless, if I had not been more than common strong, thank the Saints, long sitting with the sick man would of a certainty have done me a mischief, for body and soul had much to endure. [10]
This esteem gave greater certainty that any backsheesh coming from the estate of Benn Claridge would not be sifted through many hands on its way to himself. [11]
I would fain go hence with the certainty that the one burning desire shall be fulfilled which still warms this frozen heart. [10]
It may not get this start at all, and may have no career; but, if a crown prince introduce the precedent, it will attract vast attention, and its chances for a career are so great as to amount almost to a certainty. [5]
Now she knew for a certainty what had happened to her sister. [9]
And now was flooding in on her the certainty that he had not failed her; that he had, with a sublime indifference to a worldly future and success, defied the powers. [9]
But I must first have the certainty that it shall not be in vain. [10]
You will never find it in the Magister's arms, and that your heart is of a certainty, not set on marrying a well-to-do man at any cost . [10]
Even the lady Euryale had advised her to trust fearlessly to herself, and sitting with her lover she had acquired the certainty that it was best so. [10]

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