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Example sentences for "sure sign"

  • A professor surely;" showing that she took glasses for a sure sign of a professor, and professor for the highest possible title of honor.

  • We didn't believe it, so he said that the steward had ordered a great pudding full of raisins for supper that day as a sure sign that it was the last on board.

  • To dream of losing your teeth is, by many, considered a sure sign of coming trouble.

  • On the other hand, if the horns are evenly balanced, it is a sure sign of dry weather.

  • If the kettle should boil dry, it is a sure sign of rain.

  • A very large part of the Park is covered with heath or rushes, sure sign of execrable soil.

  • The soil is a mixture of gravel and clay, with big yellow stones in it, sure sign of really bad land.

  • This is for watering the sheep in summer; sure sign of a really dry soil; and yet the grass never parches upon these downs.

  • The bark of the young trees with dark spots in it; sure sign of free growth and great depth of clay beneath.

  • Samuel ran his fingers through his hair, a sure sign of his perplexity.

  • Very good, very good," and Grimsby rubbed his hands, a sure sign of his satisfaction.

  • It certainly is, and a sure sign that a man's in love, so I've been told.

  • A white bat is almost a sure sign of death.

  • Walking alone, it is a sure sign of independence and a total ignoring of smaller spirits.

  • For lovers it is a sure sign of failure to keep promises of a sacred nature.

  • If two ravens, one coming from the north and one coming from the south, meet over the roof of a house, it is a sure sign of the death of one of the inmates of the house.

  • It is an old saying that if ravens are seen flying in a great number in one direction, it is a sure sign of plague or some death among beasts and men.

  • It is therefore a bad sign if such a fly settles on a sick man; a sure sign of death.

  • Betwixt the lightnings could he not see children running about with two heads, and all the boughs swelling out with heads of serpents--sure sign of the presence of the devil?

  • I have shared all my misfortune with Christ and the saints, since I have a sure sign of their love toward me.

  • To receive the bread and wine of this sacrament, then, is nothing else than to receive a sure sign of this fellowship and incorporation with Christ and all saints.

  • That is a sure sign of death, loss, or fire, as every actor knows.

  • The occurrence of plantains and mangoes here is curious, and a sure sign of mild climate, as Kalanchoe is of dryness; nothing could well exceed the barrenness of the road, from crossing Dumria to Benka.

  • Over the Kooree, Euphorbia antiqorum, a sure sign of aridity.

  • Thence the country became more undulated and scarcely a tree was met with: Hedysarum gyrans commenced shortly after leaving Nurtung: a sure sign of decreasing elevation.

  • Such an indication must not, however, be considered as the certain or sure sign of success as when the Line of Fate keeps to its own place and sends branches to some particular Mount.

  • It is more changeable and uncertain and is by no means such a sure sign of riches or solid position.

  • Our officers observed that grass and other plants grew on the beach close to high water-mark, which is always a sure sign of pacific anchorage, and an undeniable proof that there never is a great surf on the shore.

  • If you dream of a black horse, it is a sure sign of death.

  • Should your shoestring come unloosened, 'T is a sure sign and a true, At that very moment Your true love thinks of you.

  • If the stove-lids get red-hot when the fire is first made, it is a sure sign of a storm of some kind.

  • A nickname is a sure sign of something out of the common in man, boy, or horse.

  • She saw his hands clench the chair tightly--sure sign of a strong man's emotion.

  • He saw in his conduct a sure sign that he was in love with her, and he gleaned from Irene's look of disappointment, when she saw Ulick was absent, that she returned his affection.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attack upon; containing many; gaseous state; geographical position; going beyond; half long; know where; miles northwest; national industry; negative voice; peculiar acid; quick time; regain their; spiritual power; sure about; sure enough; sure she; sure sign; sure that; sure thou; sure you; surely enough; these gentlemen; who have; wonderfully beautiful; would rise