If I may believe what has been reported to me from Your Holiness by Galeazzo Butrigario and Giovanni Ruffo, Archbishop of Cosenza, who are the nunzios of your apostolic chair, I am certain that these details will please you.
There are certain roots which the natives call potatoes and which grow spontaneously.
Other varieties are set aside for the nobles, and certain others for the common people.
Baptista Elysius, who is a remarkable philosopher and doctor of medicine, was in possession of certain small stones they had gathered on the shores of that region, and he thinks they are topazes.
This is due doubtless to certain of the island's fruits they greedily devour.
They also filled their barrels with a certain brew made from native fruits and grain, which was almost as good as wine.
Amongst the explorers of the glacial region a certain Sebastiano Cabotto, of Venetian origin, but brought by his parents in his infancy to England, is cited.
I tell a simple story by means of letters, written freely to give pleasure to certain persons whose invitations it would have been difficult for me to refuse.
If they have to wipe their hands after eating a certain dish, they use, instead of napkins, the soles of their feet, or their hips, or sometimes their testicles.
He therefore left the care of his estates to a citizen of Madrid, a certain Alonzo Nuñez, who was his comrade.
A certain Christopher Columbus, a Genoese, proposed to the Catholic King and Queen, Ferdinand and Isabella, to discover the islands which touch the Indies, by sailing from the western extremity of this country.
It is certain that the natives are extremely lazy, for they shiver with cold among their mountains in winter, without ever thinking of making clothes for themselves, although cotton is found in abundance.
I have treated here in a general sense all that concerns the zemes, but I think I should not omit certain particulars.
The Spaniards discovered certain trees in the province which bear fruits that are sweet, but most dangerous, for when eaten they produce worms.
As winter drew on, and the days grew shorter, I was sometimes almost certain that I heard a noise as if someone was playing on the great organ in the hall.
His manner was so peculiar, that even his mother stayed her talking to observe him more closely; he was in that state of excitement which usually ended in what his mother and certain of her friends esteemed a prophetic revelation.
The two were about the same age, and certain household employments were shared between them.
All this had been to a certain degree arranged on ship-board; but Captain Holdernesse, for want of anything else that he could think of to talk about, recapitulated it as he and Lois walked along.
A quick observer might have noticed a certain tremulousness about her hands, and an occasional twitching throughout all her frame.
Pastor Tappau and certain elders roused her up from a heavy sleep, late on the morning of the following day.
But his reception of such an open declaration of war was certain to be unsuitable for Adèle's eyes and ears, and the subsequent action which a man of his calibre would undoubtedly take might prove troublesome, if profitless.
Confederate Number One stepped noiselessly to his side and listened in silence to certain instructions, which were to us inaudible.
His counsel Is certain to ask for the benefit of the doubt, and they'll give it him.
So far as the number of the car was concerned, Daphne and Jonah never wavered, and we were certain about its colour and style.
Counsel for the defence made a great effort to pin me to a certain estimate of the speed at which the offending car was moving, but I scented danger and refused to be tied down.
An apprehension of certain embarrassment to come extinguished the instant impulse to shriek with laughter which was written plain upon their faces, and my sister gave one wild glance about her before turning to face the delinquent.
A certain defiance gave an undercurrent of sadness to her voice, a mounting rebellion to her tone.
Their position commanded quite a considerable stretch of road toward the city, and as by going that way it would take a good hour and a half of hard riding to get so far, it was certain they did not expect me to pass for some time.
Other documents gave an account of the posterity of this child down to one Francois Rene Alois de Pasquier, who fled to America in 1674 to escape the vengeance of a certain great lord whose son he slew in a duel.
I was a mere lad; I had a sweetheart whose family lived near our own in the vicinity of a certain small provincial town, it matters not where.
One old ram regarded each mirror as a certain avenue of escape, and the radiating fracture of each taught him no greater wisdom concerning the others.
As soon as he found they were not there I felt morally certain he would come and demand them of me.
Admitted to the sanctuary and protection of the monastery this day a certain suckling babe, aged about two years.
You have now in your possession certain traitorous dispatches which were given you by one Carne Yvard in exchange for others which you brought over with you in a vessel called le Dauphin.
There was a certain air of resentment in his manner, as if he would call her to account, and I heartily wished myself otherwhere.
This takes place when the fire-tree bursts into bloom; its fiery blossoms have, to their minds, a certain religious significance.
I can vouch for one instance in which the inhabitants of a certain village offered to pay the parish priest if he would say mass for the continuance of this luxury.
A certain sum was necessary to maintain the colony.
He knows that he is going tocertain death--that is but the door to Paradise!
I soon discovered that I was interfering with the business of a certain priest, who was also in the same line of business.
During the continuance of the monopoly, in certain districts in northern Luzon, only tobacco plants were permitted to be placed in the ground.
It is capable of keeping its head under water for two minutes at a time, exploring the bottom of streams or pools for certain favorite plants.
The farmer, or proprietor, announces that the contest is about to begin, and from every hand dollars rain into the ring, each person staking a certain amount upon his favorite.
The islands of Leyte and Marinduque, and certaindistricts in the large island of Luzon yield the finest quality of hemp.
There were certain public funds in Manila that offered themselves to speculative uses.
As to the Philippines, those duties are complicated by the irresistible tendencies which seem to make certain the dismemberment of China, and the subjection of that immemorial empire to all the influences of Western civilization.
There are certain ones who do not want my boy to return; it is to their interest that he should not come back, so they try to think that he is dead.
The success of her canvas shoes and her underwear had inspired her with a certain amount of confidence.
Perrine had absolute faith in the doctor, and was certain that he would perform the miracle.
She imagined all sorts of ways, but she could not feel certain of anything, except that she was not to be sent back to push trucks.
Honored Sir: "It is with great grief that I inform you that we have lost our Reverend Father Leclerc, to whom you wrote for certain important information.
Your excellency will have noticed, in his statement, certain allusions to the Austrian surrender, and to French troops in Austria.
The former is certainthe man entered the inn yard from the street; the latter are just as positive that he did not.
Just as fast as one lot was killed, the others, knowing that they were going to certain death, came on, thinking they would wear us down by sheer numbers.
Our ideal would be to preserve in the future the beautiful things--certain flowers of tradition and privilege--of the past.
Certain it is, the best patriots in the greatest commonwealths have always commanded and promoted such connections.
A new project was therefore devised by a certain set of intriguing men, totally different from the system of Administration which had prevailed since the accession of the House of Brunswick.
What shall we think of him who never differed from a certain set of men until the moment they lost their power, and who never agreed with them in a single instance afterwards?
I am very sure of the integrity of the motives on which they are published: I cannot be equally confident in any plan for the absolute cure of those disorders, or for their certainfuture prevention.
But as the title to the Crown grew stronger by long possession, and by the constant increase of its influence, these helps have of late seemed to certain persons no better than incumbrances.
As this power is attached to certain situations, it is their duty to contend for these situations.
An opinion prevails, that greatness has been more than once advised to submit to certain condescensions towards individuals, which have been denied to the entreaties of a nation.
No conveniency of public arrangement is available to remove any one of them from the specific situation he holds; and the slightest attempt upon one of them, by the most powerful Minister, is a certain preliminary to his own destruction.
They had parted with certain hopes, but they had had a windfall; and two of them were looking forward with absolute assurance to a profitable meal and deal with Sir John Pilgrim on the morrow.
He even found a certain peculiar and perverse satisfaction in the fact that he had as yet been recognised by nobody.
In certain picturesque details of costume Wilkins's was coquettishly French.
Though certain famous people inhabit Marloes Road, no street could well be less fashionable than this thoroughfare, which is very arid and very long, and a very long way off the centre of the universe.
Mr. Bryany, observing the peculiarity of the spill, seized it and unrolled it, not without a certain agitation.
And he was happy and rather proud in this discovery, and began to feel a certain vague desire to tell Mr. Seven Sachs the history of his career--or at any rate the picturesque portions of it.
In the best bedroom he had talked of it, but even there with a certain self-consciousness and false casualness.
He enjoyed life, but not with rude activity, like the grosser members of the ruling caste, rather with a certain rare languor.
In spite of himself, he could not keep a certain flippant harsh quality out of his tone.
The photographer arrived withcertain cases, and at once Rose Euclid and Carlo Trent began instinctively to pose.
Once, on a short visit to London, Edward Henry had paid half a crown to be let into a certain enclosure with a very low ceiling.
Accounts differed, afterward, as to the exact order of events; but it is certain that the leader of the band lost his fiddle, which was broken by the lusty Isabel on the Purser's head.
It was by no means certain that in the face of such humiliation and suffering Faustina would continue her resistance; indeed, she could hardly be blamed if she yielded in the end.
Though his epistle was not a model of literary style it contained certain phrases that came from the heart.
And yet, incertain branches, Tiberio Colaisso was a learned man.
A certain person whom I will not name discovered your intention, and conceived the idea of preventing the meeting by sending you a note purporting to come from the lady.
It was certain that if there were a quarrel between husband and wife, and if Giovanni had the smallest show of right on his side, the old man's sympathies would be with him.
San Giacinto's action was therefore spontaneous, and if it needs explanation it may be ascribed to an inherited magnanimity, to a certain dignity which had distinguished him even as a young man from the low class in which he had grown up.
I devoutly trust that heaven in its mercy may avert such a catastrophe from our house," replied Montevarchi, who, however, seemed to be occupied in adding together certain sums upon his fingers.
You have been drinking too much," said Colaisso suddenly, and with a certain brutality that startled his friend.
You propose to me to introduce this clause, as I understand, in this document and in the original," said the librarian, as though he wished to be quite certain of the nature of the scheme.
It was also certain that his superiors would not allow anything of the kind at present, and Gouache for his part was glad of the fact.
If Isa Isban is connected with such a gang, I am certain it is against her will.
There is nothing more hurtful than cigarettes used to excess, and one who smokes them regularly is almost certain to use them to excess, after a time.
At last, overcome by his terrible exertions, he might sleep, feeling certain that in a few more hours he would be beyond their reach.
If he escaped and hastened to any of the nearby towns, it was pretty certain that he would be taken for Black Harry and lynched.
Now, to a certain extent, I have taken the place you left vacant at Fardale.
At length the carriage in advance stopped before a certain house, and the driver got down to open the door.
I am certain we are very near the place," said Frank.
He remained calm and collected, much to the dismay of the some nervous passengers, who were certain the train would be held up by Black Harry's Braves, who would be on hand to rescue their chief.
There was considerable discussion over this, and Long finally gave in, although he expressed himself as certainthat the boys would prove a great incumbrance.
Not being a physician, Frank could not tell how severe it was; but, with considerable difficulty, he finally succeeded in stanching the flow of blood to a certain extent.
Yes, it seems quite certain that the hermit is the child's father.
Out of this he climbed at a certain point, and they made their way over a ridge into another ravine, from which they branched into yet another.
His forehead indicates a certainorder of intelligence, but this simply makes him all the more dangerous.
I have been reading over a part of a short poem I have composed lately, called Lamia, and I am certain there is that sort of fire in it which must take hold of people in some way.
Of the Devonshire girls Keats thought better than of their menkind, and writes and rimes on them with a certain skittishness of admiration.
Though exerting all his faculties of observation, it was impossible to be quite certain how many wires there were.
On the other hand, her toleration would be almost certain to have a bad effect upon Bressant, no matter how sincere and well-meaning he might be at the outset.
But it was not certain that she knew any thing about him more than the little Cornelia had herself told her: if not useless, it would certainly be rash to make inquiries of her, especially since it would have to be done by letter.
It's so convenient to be certain that nothing can change your love for me, Cornelia!
The pulling at his heart-strings seemed to draw him steadily in one certain direction; he traversed acres of field and pasture-land blind and insensible to every thing save this mysterious guide.
Perhaps Professor Valeyon was not one of the exceptions, and was haunted by the idea that, were some certain event to come to pass, life would be more pleasant and gracious to him than it was now.
Certain it was that dress-making might have been seen in progress through the windows of any farm-house within ten miles; and at the Parsonage no less than elsewhere.
Nor was the bolt ever drawn, save at certain hours of the morning and night.
Things never take their own course, in a certain sense; what we do, and say, and think, creates circumstances and shapes results.
Especially was he fond of looking at a certain open space, near the summit of a high, wooded hill, directly opposite.
It would appear to have been a difference of degree--the maturation in the 19th century of certain features of the 17th.
The movement of the mercury over a certain minute distance within the tube served as a switch to energize an electrical recording system.
I certainly do not possess anything of it, and many a scrape I get into at the Works through forgetting to order certainthings at the proper time.
All I can say at present is that a certain farmer named Hardy has consented to take him.
But I feel certain there must be a mistake somewhere.
We are perfectly certain of getting disinterested advice from him, though I see no reason whatever to doubt the policy of what I have done or the intentions of our backers.
The discrepancy is not easily accounted for; but probably in Chronicles in the number for Israel certainbodies of troops were included which were not included in Samuel, and vice versa in the case of Judah.
Two considerations make it all but certain that its date is earlier than Absalom's rebellion.
In his eagerness to get a certain thing done, Joab showed little or no regard for those higher interests to which outward acts should ever be subordinate.
The placing of garrisons through all their country shows how obstinate these Edomites were, and how certain to have returned to fresh acts of hostility had they not been held in restraint by these garrisons.
It was prompt, it seemed certain of success, and it would avoid an unpopular slaughter.
For even the world has a certain faith in godliness,--to this extent, at least, that it ought to be consistent.
In addition to these, there is also a notice of certain wars of David's, not previously recorded, and a fuller statement respecting his great men than we have elsewhere.
Is it not certain that Jesus Christ is an unrivalled Commander, pure and noble above all His fellows, that His life was the most glorious ever led on earth, and that His service is by far the most honourable?
It is certain that whatever extra power could be given by careful organization to the fighting force of the country, the army of Israel under David possessed it in the fullest degree.
Certain young men of the more idiotic sort launch into dog-carts and raiment of English cut, and here in Buffalo they play polo at four in the afternoon.
Remember that the men who stocked California in the fifties were physically, and, as far as regards certain tough virtues, the pick of the earth.
Certain bars and fences are unshipped, and behold!
It is the use of this city, her men and women folk, to parade between the hours of eight and ten a certain street called Cairn Street, where the finest shops are situated.
I did not remember the fact, but since he was so certain of it, why, then--I waited developments.
I cannot, of course, be certain whether the Frenchman who signalled to her in the Café Noir was himself the favoured individual.
To prove that this is so, I must place you in possession of certain incidents which took place after we parted at the Gare du Nord.
In the first place, you may be certainthat they have provided a strong alibi to prove that they were in Paris on the days when we are certain they were in London.
But even the most vulgar or brutal Frenchman is endowed with a certain amount of politeness, and in this instance Gros Jean felt that his visitor should be treated deferentially.
If those diamonds are not recovered, a revolution in Turkey is the almostcertain outcome, and Heaven alone knows what that means to the European Powers most concerned.
The only way in which you could be positively certain was to enter into conversation with him, was it not?
Not until the three cabs had crossed the Place de l'Opera and passed the Madeleine could Brett be certain that the occupant of the second was following his friend Gaultier.
Though he is not in favour at Court just now he has plenty of friends in the various departments, and he could give you letters which would be certain to secure you some excellent orders.
He acted in this manner in order to make certain that his presence in Paris should be known to the police at the first instant they endeavoured to trace him.
It was from his elderly assistant in London, whom he had told to make a close scrutiny of all inhabited houses within a certain radius of the Carlton Hotel.
Then comes a letter illustrated at the top with a certain gentleman greatly reduced in face and figure through following Dr.
I was certain that Alec had torn it out of the dead man's hand, and almost certain that he must have thrust it into the pocket of his dressing-gown.
Denviers was emphatic in his determination to meet the Russian on the morrow, and so it was arranged that at a certain hour Marie Lovetski should leave the catacombs and secretly watch the result of the duel.
His dark eyes were perhaps somewhat dreamy and intensely sad, but they had a certain expression of gentleness and candour which won all hearts.
Crinoline, in spite of certain opposition, enjoyed a slight revival in the present day, and in 1897 the divided skirt threatened to spread universally.
It was early one November that this horny-handed pair planned the burglary of a certain safe located in a wholesale establishment in St. Mark Street.
They were also, by certainstrict rules, enabled to foretell the attire of posterity.
As in proportionyng of vittayles, for the Army, either remaining at a stay: or suddenly to be encreased with a certaine number of Souldiers: and for a certain tyme.
It will be seen in the above examples that a certain clue is given by writing the syllable with which the proverb commences in a capital letter.
I should have died for certain if I hadn't been taken to the hospital, for I was awful bad; and so's he.
When a child reaches a certain age it will begin to want amusement, when, if there are no toys, you may give it the poker and tongs, or set it down on the floor before the coal-scuttle.
Do you agree with a certain female lecturer, that it is the duty of the fair sex to captivate the other?
THE COOK For ages it has been believed that a certain wicked person sends cooks; but Johnson has well observed, and so by the by have Smith and Brown, that "if we had no cooks, we should be as bad as cannibals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
