Word: sure
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...stern, and Carlin was sitting near, talking angrily, I judged, though I could not hear his voice for the wind. And then the memory of that dream came over me; I divined what was to come. I think I must have been crazy with terror, - I am sure the captain thought...
...mentioned, sure enough...
...sure that my anger shall fall on thy head...
...first place, you know the fellows had given me several hundred dollars to put up on the game, knowing that we had a pretty sure thing of it; and they had particularly asked me to get odds of at least five to one, as somebody had told them that Harvard would probably back her team; but the very first Harvard man I struck had the impudence to laugh in my face, and ask me "how I had the cheek to ask for odds when our team had beaten Columbia thirteen goals and six touch-downs to nothing, while Harvard...
...pledged us their promises sure...