10 Metaphors for certain

Certain of these personages, Moses, Aaron, Gideon, Daniel, Ezekiel, are not merely accessories and attendant figures, but in a manner attributes, as expressing the character of the Virgin.

No jousting game was e'er so brisk as that which then he waged; On arm and thigh with deadly blow the slashing weapon raged; Though certain was his death, yet still, with failing heart, he prayed That till his lady could escape, that death might be delayed.

Incapable of hatred, he never placed his remarkable talent as a writer at the service of political animosities, however certain might have been his gains." [Footnote 1: Ramón Rodriguez Correa, Prólogo, in Obras de Becquer, vol.

This agreeable prophecy does not spring from a heartening belief in victory, but only from the procrastinating attitude, "Why get ready?" To prepare for anything less certain than death seems folly to many of the sex, over-trained in patient waiting.

What is more certain than deduction when the principles from which it reasons are indisputably established? Is induction, great as it is, especially in the explorations of Nature and science, always certain?

How it will come about no man can tell; that it will come about is as certain as fate.

It is as certain as fire kindles and water wets that he will act according to the motive which has proved to be stronger for him.

Are you sure of it, Wren?" "As certain as hydraulics can make me, sir," and the lesser man began drawing lines with his stick in the dust of the path in demonstration.

Some are much more certain than others, and, indeed, 'self-evident' and 'intuitive.'

Poisoning by the skin is no less certain than poisoning by the mouthonly it is slower in its operation.

10 Metaphors for  certain