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This surely is a day, of all others, in which is set before us the heavenly excellence and the acceptableness in God's sight of that state which most men have, or may have, allotted to them, humble or private life, and cheerfulness in it.— Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
"This surely is a surprise When they were all comfortably seated before the open fire, Mr. Wilkinson explained their mission, and the good woman seemed amazed at their news We had no idea Frieda wasn't still at school.— The Girl Scouts' Good Turn
Her own mother surely were the fittest to do the same.— Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
This surely was the ghost of Mahommed Selim--this gaunt, stooping figure covered with dust Soada, in the name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful, Soada, beautiful one Mahommed Selim, once the lithe, the straight, the graceful, now bent, awkward, fevered, all the old daring gone from him, stood still in the middle of the room, humbled before the motherhood in his sight Brother of jackals," cried old Fatima, "what dost thou here?— Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
This surely is a wild hyperbole.— Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era

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