Use surely in a sentence
Sentences starting with surely
- Surely that isn't your idea of marriage! [9]
- Surely I've told you about him. [10]
- Surely no one would have predicted when Ruth left Philadelphia that she would become absorbed to this extent, and so happy, in a life so unlike that she thought she desired. [5]
- Surely the master would come back--or Breed. [9]
- Surely you are weeping? [10]
- Surely she might weep a little for herself--she who had been so troubled for others. [11]
- Surely self-preservation, that was the first law; surely no known code of human practice called upon him to share the daily crimes of any living soul--it was a daily repetition of his crime for this traitor to carry on the atrocious lie of patriotism. [11]
- Surely it's like was never seen before. [10]
- Surely there never was a more benign villain and perjurer in the world than Sebastian Dolores! [11]
- Surely the little tumult would pass; surely the little whisper of worldliness could not disturb her ideals. [4]
Sentences ending with surely
- Not going, ladies, you are not going, surely! [12]
- It was an ugly house, surely. [9]
- We have nothing to fear from you, surely. [10]
- If he was the object of her thoughts she would not avoid him, surely. [6]
- He, too, stared, the laughter fading from his eyes, first astonishment, and then anger, growing in them, slowly, surely. [9]
- By the minority, surely. [6]
- Not merely the possession of material comforts, surely. [9]
- I know it, oh so surely! [11]
- No, those were not the words, surely. [9]
- This would tell in their favour, surely. [9]
Short sentences using surely
- Surely Wolff must trust her! [10]
- Surely, he was there! [9]
- Surely you know that. [10]
- Take notice, you surely will. [10]
- You surely must remember. [10]
- He surely did not. [9]
- Thalia's laughter, surely, not Clio's. [9]
- Not Andree, surely not Andree! [11]
- Surely not Mr. Marmaduke! [9]
- Surely you must know! [10]
Sentences containing surely two or more times
- Surely, surely he will, if I beseech him, when we are united, if I tell him. [10]
- Barbara had no objection to this arrangement, and Kit, tracking out the idea which had come upon him so suddenly overnight, began to think that surely Barbara was fond of him, and surely he was fond of Barbara. [12]
- Surely, surely you must be suffering; you shall not go out at night to nurse sick people again! [10]
- Surely, surely he himself had clothed the expression in a totally different, a hundred times warmer form. [10]
- In the great contest of 1840 some more than twenty one hundred thousand votes were cast, and so surely as there shall be that many, with the ordinary increase added, cast in 1844 that surely will a Whig be elected President of the United States. [7]
- Surely, surely not! [10]
More example sentences with the word surely in them
- One word about your absent husband must surely sound sweeter to your ears, than all my music. [10]
- She was so young, and she had shown kindness to a Hebrew surely they might listen to her. [10]
- For she loves you, Richard, as surely as the world is turning. [9]
- Few will resist you, but of those few the first will surely be your own father. [10]
- At the time you took a solemn vow; I know it, know it no less surely, than that I myself swore faith to my husband at the altar. [10]
- It was only yesterday, surely but yesterday, since I rocked her to sleep. [11]
- The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
- Her neighbor's daughter would surely know. [10]
- Anxiety for her would surely have bound me to this house and the city when the time came to make the escape, for without her my life would now be valueless. [10]
- Choosing and bargaining would surely dispel her sorrows and bring other thoughts. [10]
- Yet, if you would only put in a good word, my time would surely come now. [10]
- But surely you would not be so unoriginal, so cliche, as to say the same thing to me that you said to Mr. [11]
- It is not within our best-fenced churches and creeds that the self-governing American is like to find the religious freedom which the Concord prophet asserted with the strength of Luther and the sweetness of Melancthon, and which the sovereign in his shirt-sleeves will surely claim. [6]
- And Katterle agreed with him; she never contradicted his opinions, and surely Biberli must know what treatment befitted a knight, since he was the foster-brother of one. [10]
- He could surely win over the abbess in the course of the voyage, and Paula might be brought to reason, perhaps, this very evening. [10]
- Yes, and I will surely come; for I know there's much trouble in store for me. [11]
- Still, she for whom he waited was surely smaller than the woman, who now came near to him. [10]
- If this landlord, who in the past had seen him so often and so closely, did not recognise him, surely no one else would. [11]
- Your figure is well-suited to the trade of war, and you surely are not wanting in courage. [10]
- They might as well stay here; we can surely protect them. [11]
- Its mile-breadth of water seemed an ocean to them, in the shadowy twilight, and the vague riband of trees on the further shore, the verge of a continent which surely none but they had ever seen before. [5]
- Her only fault was that she had not grown with him, and surely he could not reproach her with that. [6]
- This young nature was surely formed for love and contentment, and both had left her weeping. [10]
- But surely there was something in the story of the song itself that had moved her. [11]
- Yet surely it was not his fault that Daphne's features bore the impress of that gentle, winning kindness which he himself and Soteles, imitating him, had often condemned as weak and characterless. [10]
- Yes, surely there was light moisture on the glass. [11]
- If ever there was an unpromising task, if ever there was a hopeless task in the world, surely it was offered here--the task of conquering Thuggee. [5]
- To Margaret, who was able to return the hospitality she received, and whose equipage was almost as much admired as her toilets, all doors were open--a very natural thing, surely, in a good-natured, give-and-take world. [4]
- And surely it was a droll malignity of Fate to bring him here to her whom, in this moment of all moments in his life, he wished far away. [11]
- Moreover, anything performed very often by us, will at last be done without deliberation or hesitation, and can then hardly be distinguished from an instinct; yet surely no one will pretend that such an action ceases to be moral. [1]
- He was a very good fellow, only he was out of luck, and surely that was no crime at that time in France. [5]
- I have taken upon myself no less than they, but my lie will surely be forgiven me, if it is not reckoned against them that they shed blood. [10]
- If you insist upon it, surely I will come. [10]
- Leave your eyes unfettered by your will but a single instant and they will surely turn to seek it. [5]
- That he ordered two wreaths is perfectly certain; and if he meant one for Korinna's picture, he surely intended the other for our mother. [10]
- She was too tremendous a force to be left to herself; she would surely defeat all his plans. [5]
- Perhaps it was too much to hope that he would mourn her sincerely, should the leap cost her life; but he would surely pity her, and he could never forget the moment of the fall, and therefore herself. [10]
- You made yourself too cheap at court here people will surely know how to put a higher value upon a man who is equally skilful in Netherland, Italian, and German music. [10]
- And now a Tomcat has got one of the Fishes and she will surely escape with him. [5]
- Something will happen to-day, gentlemen, something will surely happen. [10]
- What we buy to-day will surely be taken from us tomorrow, for what oath would be sacred to Philip? [10]
- When I fled to the edge of the abyss, I was raving and crazed, but what I then would have done in my madness, I would do now in cold blood--as surely as I hope to see my own people in Arelas once more! [10]
- Another thing seemed to suggest that we were not only lost, but very badly lost; for there must surely be searching-parties on the road before this time, yet we had seen no sign of them. [5]
- Surely, said I to myself, they can not be green, but rather a yellowish white, bloodless, having only fibre, the heart all pinched to death. [11]
- I've always said to myself, "Everybody reads it and that's something--it surely isn't pernicious, or the most acceptable people would get pretty tired of it. [5]
- His back turned to her; if she could have seen the threatening scowl with which he stood gazing on the ground she would surely have remembered the architect's warning and have postponed her address till a future day. [10]
- Everybody was trying to find out what his story was,--for a story, and a strange one, he must surely have,--and nobody had succeeded. [6]
- I don't want to be an evil prophet, but you surely remember these words. [10]
- It is surely time for one of us to go to that room. [5]
- Pellicanus now gazed thoughtfully into vacancy, for what the wounded man could do, he too might surely accomplish. [10]
- The prophet that thought the splendors of the New Jerusalem were revealed to him, surely saw this instead! [5]
- This time I thought surely I'd die, and I was worried about Fay. [13]
- The death-scenes of those we love are surely painful enough; but these we are prepared for and expect to see: they happen to all, and all know they must happen. [7]
- Eva eagerly opposed this view, maintaining that true piety could be most surely found in the order of St. Francis. [10]
- The idea that this great artist, whose sharp eye could so surely distinguish the hideous from the beautiful, should regard him as ill-favored, was odious to him. [10]
- Surely one can't think wisely if one doesn't see widely? [11]
- Surely my--my churchmen think of my soul? [13]
- They told him things which surely would have excited any one else's suspicion, but they did not excite his. [5]
- Surely John was there, and how gladly she would have rushed toward it! [10]
- As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords. [5]
- Surely two of them were stuck together, then three were fast on a shoal. [9]
- Here, surely, was the war which he had foretold, and I ready to embark in it. [9]
- The doctors of the University had to see those creatures in order to know; and if Joan was deceived, it is argument that they in their turn could also be deceived, for their insight and judgment were surely not clearer than hers. [5]
- Hence now was the time when we might most surely look for tidings from the Levant, and Ann would not be out of the way in case any such might come to Nuremberg. [10]
- History says that the temples of the Acropolis were filled with the noblest works of Praxiteles and Phidias, and of many a great master in sculpture besides--and surely these elegant fragments attest it. [5]
- For of all the strange, and frantic, and incomprehensible, and uninterpretable books which the imagination of man has created, surely this one is the prize sample. [5]
- For of all the strange and frantic and incomprehensible and uninterpretable books which the imagination of man has created, surely this one is the prize sample. [5]
- The membership of the Society, judging by those present, was surely of a sufficiently heterogeneous character to satisfy even the catholic tastes of her hostess. [9]
- He therefore assumed the same attitude as had Mr. Flint, and forced the burden of explanation upon Austen, relying surely on the disinclination of his son to be specific. [9]
- Surely, martyrdom was the right name for it. [5]
- Surely it was the reply he himself would have made. [11]
- But once more the king spoke: 'Thou shalt surely die, but not by fire, nor now; nor till we have come to our great camp in our own country. [11]
- How surely do the habits of a lifetime become second nature to us! [5]
- This surely was the ghost of Mahommed Selim-- this gaunt, stooping figure covered with dust. [11]
- He must punish the fugitive--but yet more surely he would never again let her out of his sight. [10]
- But go with the firm intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostroma used to tell me. [2]
- Surely this was the explanation, if it might be called one! [9]
- I surely have the equipment, a wide culture, and all of it real, none of it artificial, for I don't know anything about books. [5]
- The dwellings of the English residents are spacious and comfortable and commodiously furnished, and surely it must be an odd sight to see half a dozen guests come filing into such a place and dumping blankets and pillows here and there and everywhere. [5]
- Surely it was the Egyptians whom Moses' curse had robbed of thousands of beloved lives, while the Hebrews had escaped their revenge by flight. [10]
- She put down the cup, placed another pillow behind my head with a marvellous deftness, and then began feeding me in dainty spoonfuls something which was surely nectar. [9]
- It is surely the correct idea. [5]
- Finding himself in the company of Napoleon, whose identity he had easily and surely recognized, Lavrushka was not in the least abashed but merely did his utmost to gain his new master's favor. [2]
- Surely not to the Club or to pay calls? [2]
- Gradually but surely, that tiresome old anecdote has sapped my strength, undermined my constitution, withered my life. [5]
- Surely you know that she is my betrothed bride. [10]
- It seemed strange that she did not, for they were surely her natural weapons of conquest. [6]
- How often before that I used to think when I heard you laugh that the sound must surely please our Father in Heaven. [10]
- She warmly replied that he must surely feel that she did; and now, as the others came into the room, she nodded to her mother, whom she had already seen quite early, and offering him her hand shook his heartily. [10]
- But most surely that cannot be. [5]
- But when, after that battle, the Confederate army, under Lee, crossed the Potomac and invaded Maryland, Lincoln vowed in his heart that, if the Union army were now blessed with success, the decree of freedom should surely be issued. [7]
- Vast wealth has temptations which fatally and surely undermine the moral structure of persons not habituated to its possession. [5]
- And his Excellency tells me that the coming governor, Eden, will surely reward him with a seat in the Council. [9]
- She saw him taking his punishment as surely as though the law of the land had him in its grasp. [11]
- Surely monsieur will take them; monsieur shall have them for thirty francs. [5]
- These were signs, surely, which the wise might have read with profit: in the offices, for instance, of the Honourable Hilary Vane in Ripton Square, where seismic disturbances were registered; but the movement of the needle (to the Honourable Hilary's eye) was almost imperceptible. [9]
- She knew now, surely, but she must ask it nevertheless. [11]
- Wrangle it was surely, but shaggy and wild-eyed, and sage-streaked, with dust-caked lather staining his flanks. [13]
- I am creeping surely toward it. [5]
- This masquerade is surely the work of the Queen, who so dearly loves the chase. [10]
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