Certainly

Examples

• Certainly, if you wish it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Women are certainly quicker in some things than men. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mrs. Bennet could certainly spare you for another fortnight. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• That horse certainly did things for him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Certainly not,' replied Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He always kept so far from me that I could not clearly see his face, but it was certainly someone whom I did not know. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Laura had certainly written to say she would pass the night under the roof of her old friend--but she had never been near the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I certainly did not see the proof of Mr. Skimpole's worldliness in his having his expenses paid by Richard, but I made no remark about that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Defarge went back to the counter, and said, Certainly, a little like. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• People always say unpleasant things--and certainly they're a great deal together. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Certainly, answered Miss Eliza Higgins, reddening. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• No, said I, certainly not. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Certainly; she is fonder of geraniums, and seems more docile, though not so fine a figure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Certainly, my dear. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Certainly not, said Mr Rokesmith. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then it was that I worked out my first invention, and necessity was certainly the mother of it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Most certainly it does. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Certainly none until afterwards when I held the clue. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Oh, certainly, certainly, answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of relief. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Laura was certainly not chargeable with any exaggeration, in writing me word that I should hardly recognise her aunt again when we met. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Most certainly, he replied. Plato. The Republic.
• Certainly I know it, replied Mr. Wopsle. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The discovery of America, however, certainly made a most essential one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They are certainly much more useful in the Gredos than here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Certainly I do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She had all her wits about her, and she certainly understood her business. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• O, certainly, she will discover that, and a world of wholesome truths besides, no doubt, said St. Clare. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Certainly, I answered-- unless I relieve you of all necessity for trying the experiment in the interval. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I was certainly very far from expecting them to make so strong an impression. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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