"I have put before you, quite dispassionately I hope, certain facts.

"You have not threatened, you tell me," he said, "but you have pointed out to me that there is no evidence that you have had a hand in certain transactions.

A moment before he had known, he thought, for certain that his own utter ruin was imminent.

He felt that when he knew absolutely for certain who had said this about him, a force of indignation and hatred, which at present he kept chained up, must infallibly break its chain, and become merely a wild beast let loose.

He had left the road, as the dreamer felt certain he would, and was going over the downs to Brighton.

This interview with the accredited representative of the law also had removed a certain weight from his mind.

Mills might, if he chose, proclaim on any convenient housetop, that his partner had gambled with Morris's £40,000 that according to the ledgers was invested in certain railway debentures and other gilt-edged securities.

Whether happiness makes us good, is a question not yet decided, but it is quite certain that happiness makes us forget that we have been bad, and it seemed to Mr. Taynton, as he sat in his cool dining-room, and ate his lunch with a more vivid appetite than had been his for many months, it seemed that the man who had gambled with his client's money was no longer himself; it was a perfectly different person who had done that.

The business was, yes, of the nature of a dispute, but Mr. Taynton regarded it as certain that some amicable arrangement would have been come to, had the interview taken place.

As it had not, however, since Morris had not found him at his flat in town, he could not speak for certain on this subject.

This, taken in conjunction with the information already given by Mr. Taynton, made it practically certain that the deceased had left London on the Thursday as he had intended to do, and had got out of the train at Falmer, also according to his expressed intention, to walk to Brighton.

But certain fresh evidence which had turned up a day or two before the Assizes seemed to have taken the heart out of him.

That the provocation was great was not denied; it was certain however, that the provocation was sufficient.

The prisoner had learned on Wednesday (June 22d) that aspersions had been made, false aspersions, on his character, and it was on Thursday that he learned for certain from the lips of the man to whom they had been made, who was the author of them.

It was certain also that at that hour the prisoner, burning for vengeance, and knowing the movements of Mr. Mills, was in the vicinity of Falmer.

To proceed, it was certain also that the prisoner in a very strange wild state had arrived at Mr. Taynton's house about nine that evening, knowing that Mr. Mills was expected there at about 9.30.

The first thing that occurred to make a weak link in their chain was the acknowledgment of a certain witness that the stick with which the murder was supposed to have been committed was not left on the spot by the accused, but by himself.

You will remember also that certain circumstances pointed to robbery being the motive of the crime.

Then, we must suppose, he saw himself safer, if he forged against another certain evidence which we have heard.

It is true that some improvements have been recently made, but these relate to the recovery of certain volatile by-products which were formerly lost.

Whether or not this was so I cannot tell; but of this I am certain, that the statement made that the gas does not require purification will not bear investigation.

The story belongs to the "realistic" school, and, although objections may be raised against its nauseating details, there is no mistaking its graphic power and truth to a certain phase of life.

"Oh! that's certain, quite certain," repeated Gervaise.

"Oh! that's certain, quite certain," repeated Gervaise.

"We're thinking of binding him to do a certain amount of picking every day.