"To be sure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is tenacious, however, and we awoke one morning to read, what was probably its most remarkable excuse. To be sure, a German torpedo sank the Tubantia, but it was not fired by the Germans. The expert accountant who was in charge of the U-boat learned upon consulting his books that he fired that torpedo on March 6. It did not strike the Tubantia ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... magnificence of faded brocade, long stomacher, peaked hat, and high-heeled shoes. The young officer appeared as Robin Hood, in a sporting dress of Kendal green, and a foraging cap, with a gold tassel. The costume, to be sure, did not bear testimony to deep research, and there was an evident eye to the picturesque, natural to a young gallant in the presence of his mistress. The fair Julia hung on his arm in a pretty rustic dress, as ...
— Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving • Washington Irving
... the favored one," said President Tuttle. If a carpenter must stand at his journeyman's elbow to be sure his work is right, or if a cashier must run over his bookkeeper's columns, he might as well do the work himself as employ another to do ...
— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden
... The lady who was calling said she would call again around lunch time. She said you were to be sure to wait ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... Virginia lay was placed sideways along the wall—as I have said—the Marburys' wall. I drew a chair close to it, and before I looked again at the child I glanced up at the nurse to be sure of her character. Perhaps I should say that I found her to be a thin-lipped person not over thirty, with long, square-tipped fingers, eyes as cold as metal, and colorless skin of that peculiar texture which always denotes to me an unbreakable vitality and endurance, and perhaps ...
— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child
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