"Cert" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I only seen him twicet. Las' time he was sneakin' fum de top flo'. But I cert'n'y ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... on earth!" she exclaimed. "I lef you there eatin' that pie fo' hours ago, an' I come back an' find you settin' there yet! You cert'n'y 'ain't forgot to make out ...
— Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... 'Would you be making a fortune?' Harry asked me. And who wouldn't, Miss Molly, not you nor I. 'Blue Peter is a cert,' said he; 'my brother Bill will be riding.' ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... hug you! It's the most dazzling idea 'at ever a man struck. You have cert'nly got the most astonishin' head I ever see. Oh, this is the boss dodge, ther' ain't no mistake 'bout it. Let 'em fetch along their suspicions now if they want ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... going in for the strangers' mile at some sports at Rutton next week. He'll get booked for a cert. He can't see that. I never saw such ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... to four or something in quids on with a chap in his House at Rugby on himself. He wanted a hedge because he wasn't sure about his ankle being all right. You know he hurt it. So I gave him four to one in half-sovereigns. I thought he was a cert, ...
— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
... wondered transitorily if some complex Providence had indeed brought them together that afternoon. "It's not a cert, you know," he remarked. "There's a cliff like that at Lulworth Cove—as high, anyhow—and a little girl fell from top to bottom. And lives ...
— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells
... a cert in p'int," says he. "Can't go tew fur not 'n these parts—men are tew powerful. 'Twon't do 'less ye wan'if die sudden. When he begun poundin' uv me I see ...
— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller |
