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The demand was already strong and this section made the call certain.
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Such issuers of that kind of profanity lack even the courage to enunciate their base bigotry in terms certain.
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Of course, whatever tomorrow brings, some things remain certain.
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'That it cannot carry on a war only moderately successful, or a war which from its difficulties and its distance may be generally believed to be ill managed, still less a war stained by some real disaster, seems to me certain -- if anything in the future of France can be called certain.
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832
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Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head off: this he is sure of, and knows as certain.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 25: November/December 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
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But it is a pleasant thing to think how their Basha, Shavan Aga, did tear his hair to see the soldiers order things thus; for (just like his late predecessor) when they see the evil of war with England, then for certain they complain to the Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head off: this he is sure of, and knows as certain.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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But it is a pleasant thing to think how their Basha, Shavan Aga, did tear his hair to see the soldiers order things thus; for (just like his late predecessor) when they see the evil of war with England, then for certain they complain to the Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head off: this he is sure of, and knows as certain.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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But it is a pleasant thing to think how their Basha, Shavan Aga, did tear his hair to see the soldiers order things thus; for (just like his late predecessor) when they see the evil of war with England, then for certain they complain to the Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head off: this he is sure of, and knows as certain.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663
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Yesterday, they warned that a terror attack here was "certain."
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Yesterday, they warned that a terror attack here was "certain."
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