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Yet can they leave one sure delight - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

He refused the most sure sanctuary - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Who surely as the twilight falls, begin - Clara Doty Bates "A Bear-Story" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Never doubt what nobody is sure about - Hilaire Belloc "The Microbe"

What is sureness to the shoreless - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

Sure that the Past is from the Future shut - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Whatever he did he was sure to regret - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

The venomed dart shall bear its sure and speedy remedy - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Rooted sure and slow - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"

Only the hydrofluorocarbons know for sure - S. R. Compton "The Leonids, 11/18, 2002"

His critic friends had surely cried - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"

When I was young and sure of heart - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"

Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

A little vial of sure malignancy - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

This guilt must sure unmeasured be - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Only more sure of all I thought was true - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

Not sure of the paths & turns taken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Sure of a surplus in the heart - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Both of them sure of their beginnings and ends - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Gazing on her hopes so surely shattered - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

The crew making sure nothing goes awry - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

Make sure the orb is glowing before I return - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"

Wild creatures find their surest covert - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Slow, sure round upon the wheels of time - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Sure some fate its sails will guide - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales GrĂ¼nden]"

Those unborn hours that surely follow after - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

The sign that's sure and certain - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

To make their surer paradise of tears - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

The subtle juniper assumed its sure command - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"

Leaves of sure obligation on our paths - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Not sure the breath I hold is mine - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Sure as spring gives warning - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

As surely as words are pleasure - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"

Whatever the awful silence must surely have revealed - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

From loftier triumphs sure must spring - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"


Unsure of the usefulness of inevitable things - Ada Limon "A Little Distantly, As One Should"

Unsure if I am jealous of the web or the fly - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Traveling the heart's way, alone, unsure - John Moncure Wettarau "[For Catherine, someday]"


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