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  • While it cer - tainly looked dull, it didn't look unhealthy, and she had not eaten since breakfast.

    Stalling 2010

  • Sly wretch! since the woman who uses a man insolently in courtship, cer-tainly makes that man of more importance to her, than she would wish him to think himself.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The count, said she, is cer-tainly a good man But is not his a strange perse — verance?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • She is cer-tainly one of the most enterprising women in Italy; and her temper is too well seconded by her power.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • And yet, though he convinced me by doing so, that he had before employed another, it was a point agreed upon, that our intercourse was to be an ab-solute secret; and I trembled to find myself exposed to his scribe, a man I knew not, and who must cer-tainly despise the lover whom he helped to all his agreeable flourishes; and, in despising him, must probably despise me.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • 'Well, caro, she cer - tainly knows how to make a man welcome,' a very mocking female voice drawled.

    The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

  • But they decided to play it safe and have as many med-ical personnel available on-site as possible, which cer-tainly made sense.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • Hadrenn's small palace in Synek was cer-tainly not the height of luxury, and from the vantage point of Loiseau, Secca and Anna surely would have seen golds or vast amounts of goods coming from Dolov or anywhere in Ebra to Falcor.

    The Shadow Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 2001

  • And I've cer tainly made enough to repay the loan on Montedoro.

    Rome's Revenge Craven, Sara 2001

  • This is, as I understand it, a gathering of human beings concerned about turning around one of the greatest threats humankind has faced, and cer tainly the greatest after the end of the great wars of the previous century.

    Closing Address at the 13th International AIDS Conference 2000

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