Cardinal Richelieu, that great and wise Statesman, said, That there was no surer Testimony to be given of the flourishing Greatness of a State, than publick Pleasures and Divertisementsfor they are, says hethe Schools of Vertue, where Vice is always either punish't, or disdain'd.

The more she thought of the scene of the morning, the surer she felt that Jonesor Mr. Dick, as her father sometimes called himwas in some way an instrument in the paternal scheme.

"Yet methinks there is a surer way, master.

But this partial blindness enables it to concentrate attention upon the matter actually under study, to give sharper distinctions and surer guidance.

Remember, the faster you go, the surer you'll be to save us all.

But his kind Hostess, who had vainly tried The force of ridicule to cure his pride, Fertile in plans, a surer method chose, To make him see the error of his nose; For till he view'd that feature with remorse, The Enchanter's direful spell must be in force.

He, however, entirely agreed with the young lady, as the surer way of getting out of the difficulty.

I felt that merit has no surer test Than obloquy; that, if we wish to serve The world in substance, not deceive by show, We must become obnoxious to its hate, Or fear disguised in simulated scorn.

No comet expounded surer.

If anyone were to surprise us, the whole world would accuse us, and yet what is surer than our conscience?

Past us, as we sweated there, the slow but surer wagon-trains ploughed forward.

She seemed on surer ground; it was as if golf had given her a passport.

don't you suppose he thought he'd be sure of you one way or the other, about a million times surer than he could have been any other way; if you stuck by him, don't you see, with old Felix there with all his fascinations, plus Molly's money."

The men would do it a lot quicker and surer, and a lot more willing, than they'd dig a new one.

If Englishmen were not strong in imagination, they were what is better and surer, strong in their hold of the great emancipating principles.

The insincerity of a friend has often inclined men to seek for a surer reliance upon money; these unexpected shocks make us disgusted with our species, and it is for this reason that old men who have seen so much of the world become at last avaricious.

Have you found a better friend, a greater and a surer happiness than this?

The more these jumps are sudden and unexpected, the surer the success.

True, but ours is a way much surer; for we cheat in no language at all, but loll in our own coaches, eloquent in gibberish, and learned in jingle.

By Pierre-Georges Castex, Paul Surer & Georges Becker.

Pierre-Georges Castex, Georges Becker (A) & Madame R. Bazureau, nee Raymonde Surer (NK); 22Sep75; R613820.

Then presently, when he was surer these spider swarms could not drop into the ravine, he found a place where he could sit down, and sat and fell into deep thought and began, after his manner, to gnaw his knuckles and bite his nails.

Next day, the 19th, Sieur de Maintenon, brother of Rambouillet, and Alphonso Corso d'Ornano Were added to the party; only one of them was of opinion that the Duke of Guise should at once be arrested and put upon his trial; the four others were for a shorter and a surer process, that of putting the duke to death by a sudden blow.

Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven, To reach Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment To touch, Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance; How high Unto the saints' slow diligence The sky!

She trusted me, and I who ne'er had trusted, save in self, grew cold With panic lest this precious life should know no stronger, surer hold.