Surely

Examples

• Surely, I would say, all men do not wear those shocking nightcaps; else all women's illusions had been destroyed on the first night of their marriage! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Surely he is prepared. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The chateau awoke later, as became its quality, but awoke gradually and surely. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Tears rushed into my eyes; surely this was a wanton display of the power of the destroyer. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Buthe added, you surely have not known me as an old acquaintance all this time, and never mentioned it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That is surely the conclusion to be drawn from the argument. Plato. The Republic.
• There are some events surely in all men's lives, I replied, the memory of which they would be unwilling entirely to lose? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Surely somebody has taught you, she added, with amiable archness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Surely it would not be difficult to find out. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The county police ought to make something of that, said he; why, it is surely obvious that-- But I held up a warning finger. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Surely, surely, said he; a lonely man like me, who has no sistermust be but too glad to find in some woman's heart a sister's pure affection. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Surely the plain inference that follows needs no pointing out? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If you know it already, as surely you must, I may be spared. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Philosophy, he says, is surely the ultimate end of human knowledge, or the object at which all sciences properly must aim. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And surely these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that, and to wait, if you would make proper representations to them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I ought surely to know what I am signing, Sir Percival, before I write my name? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Surely, he said, she might have brought herself to communicate with me before now, and confess honestly what Wildeve was to her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Surely thou must feel it, rabbit. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was surely not gored by a bull? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This, surely, is a reasonable hope. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No, no, a more genial atmosphere, a lovelier habitation was surely hers! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Surely I can live. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No one, surely, would come here to stare about him, he said mildly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation of shopkeepers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• That's all I ask, and surely that's not unconscionable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Nay, Madam, said Adrian, unless my sister consent never to see him again, it is surely an useless torment to separate them for a month. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In the great city all traces of them might be most speedily and most surely effaced. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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