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will be sure to confer
O.M. Diligently train your ideals upward and still upward toward a summit where you will find your chiefest pleasure in conduct which, while contenting you, will be sure to confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

will be sent to camp
If you are near one of the weather signal stations, daily bulletins will be sent to camp upon request; also the weather map.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

well be supposed to consider
The noise and clamour with which this is attended, and the eagerness visible in the countenances of the buyers, serve not a little to increase the apprehensions of the terrified Africans, who may well be supposed to consider them as the ministers of that destruction to which they think themselves devoted.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

would be sure to come
We thought that you would be sure to come there.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

world be sure to check
The Merchant of Venice PG has multiple editions of William Shakespeare's Complete Works Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!!
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

WILL BE SEEN THERE CHAPTER
RECORDED CHAPTER VI OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY CHAPTER VII OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS CHAPTER VIII WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO CHAPTER IX WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE CHAPTER X WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE CHAPTER XI OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH" CHAPTER XII OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS CHAPTER XIII
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

ways by slaughtering the creatures
Thus the Aino hopes to profit in various ways by slaughtering the creatures, which, nevertheless, he treats as divine.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

will be sure to call
Either she has said on the previous evening "You will be sure to call to-morrow,"—and who could stay away then?—or she gives me some commission, and I find it essential to take her the answer in person; or the day is fine, and I walk to Walheim; and, when I am there, it is only half a league farther to her.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

will be sure to come
“I will come, count,—I will be sure to come,” said Villefort eagerly.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

were bound slaves to Cyrus
When marched the Four of Asia in their wrath, And when they were bound slaves to Cyrus' car, The rivers shrank back from their banks afar.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

would be sufficient to check
Inflammation of a similarly arthritic or rheumatic nature occasionally also attacks the eye, and presents all the usual characters of arthritic iritis under ordinary circumstances: there is the same intolerance of light, pain of the eye, dimness of vision, contracted pupil, and peculiar white ring round the edge of the cornea, which distinguishes this affection; but in the present case, the disease runs a far more rapid course, and defies the remedies which in common cases would be sufficient to check it; the inflammation soon extends to the deeper seated structures of the eye, the pain is excrutiating, and, in two or three days, disorganization takes place, followed by suppuration, staphyloma, and bursting of the cornea.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

which barely served to cover
Dragging his play-box softly out from under the bed, he plunged his hand to the bottom and soon drew out his troublesome boots; then tucking them under his coat, which barely served to cover them, he slid down the banisters to save all noise, and tore out into the yard, and around the corner to the boot-house, as though a pack of wolves was after him.
— from Paul the Courageous by Mabel Quiller-Couch

will be seen that comparatively
By this arrangement of duties, it will be seen that comparatively little time was devoted to actual shop operations, and much time to different lines of duties that might more economically and often quite as efficiently be performed by assistants at a much lower rate of pay.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

would be safest to cut
Probably it would be safest to cut the larger and more difficult piece first, and get both the curved cuts right by your gauge; then you can be quite sure of getting the very easy small bit off quite truly, to fit into its place with both of them.
— from Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass by Christopher Whall

will be sure to carry
I have one or two places in my eye, either of which you will be sure to carry in a canter, provided some fiery fanatical fellow does not start up to oppose you.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 by Various

will be sure to contrive
The conquerors, in such a government, are all legislators, and will be sure to contrive matters, by restrictions on trade, and by taxes, so as to draw some private, as well as public advantage from their conquests.
— from Essays by David Hume

would be sure to come
Not a word was said about a race, but every one knew that one would be sure to come off.
— from Frank, the Young Naturalist by Harry Castlemon

will be sure to come
General treatment, accompanied by a gradual withdrawal of stimulant, will restore his bodily strength, with the result, in nine cases out of ten, that when he emerges from the seclusion he is able to drink more than he was before he was sequestered, and will be sure to come to grief more quickly.
— from Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles Barnes Towns

would be sufficient to convict
I had scarcely opened my mouth to reply, when, with one consent, they laid hold of me, said I was their prisoner, and declared that my accent, together with the correspondence of my person, would be sufficient to convict me before any court in England.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

will be sure to come
They will be sure to come.
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 2 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie


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