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Updated: June 22, 2025
I've always heard you Revolutionists held life cheap, but it seems there's a difference when it's your own life in question. I gave you just one chance of saving your dirty skin, and that you wouldn't take!" "They would kill me!" "Well," said Julius pleasantly, "it's up to you. But I'll just say this. Little Willie here is a dead cert, and if I was you I'd take a sporting chance with Mr. Brown!"
"DEAR MR. LEITH, I feel pretty rotten about you. I thought when once a clever boxer gave his honor on a thing it was a dead cert. The mater wouldn't let me write before, though I've been at her over it every day for weeks. But now we're going away, so she says I may write and just tell you. If you want to say good-by could you telephone, she says. P'raps you don't. P'raps you've forgotten us.
"Here, come along, some of you sportsmen! I ain't made the price of my railway fare, s'elp me!" "It's a dead cert, gents." "Can't afford to buy thick 'uns at four quid apiece!" "Five to one on the field!" "I lay on the field!" A "thick un?"
Babcock has learned to cast out devils, will not the world be redeemed? Cert! Let the Women's Rescue League take courage, and bask in the sunny optimism of the ICONOCLAST. We'll soon have all the various brands of bacteria in the bouillon; then there'll be nobody to rescue, nothing to reform, and the Leaguers and the public can take a much needed rest.
And who wouldn't, Miss Molly, not you nor I. 'Blue Peter is a cert, said he; 'my brother Bill will be riding. Could you resist that?" "Hem!" Molly would reply; "and did he win?" "If his neck had been as long as Smoker's he would have won," Joe would explain. After a few days he would return to favour, and continue a pensioner until he found work for a short time.
You played a jolly fine game this afternoon, and if you go on like that you are a cert. for your Firsts next year. You played a damned hard game." "Yes; but it is rather a bad thing for the school, isn't it, if we get a reputation for playing rough?" "But you weren't playing foul, and Buller always tells us to go hard and play as rough as we like." "Yes; but still "
Lizzie, can't you show her how to fix her hair pompadour?" Lizzie brightened. If there was a prospect of changing things, she was not averse to a cousin of her own age; but she never could take such a dowdy-looking girl into society, not the society of the ten-cent store. "O, cert!" answered Lizzie affably. "I'll fix you fine. Don't you worry. How'd you get so awful tanned? I s'pose riding.
'Pretty island, said the Lamb; 'paint-box sands and sea all shiny sparkly. His brothers and sisters had often wondered whether he remembered that island. Now they knew that he did. 'Yes, said Cyril; 'no more cheap return trips by carpet for us that's a dead cert. They were all talking about the carpet, but what they were all thinking about was the Phoenix.
"'Nearer, my God, to Thee. Can you find it, Kalman?" "Why, cert," said Kalman. French glanced apologetically at Brown. "Recently caught," he explained, "but means no harm." Brown nodded. "Proceed with the reading," he said. French laid down his pipe, took off his hat, Kalman following his example, and began to read.
"Price shorter nor ever I remember it since Cloister's year. It's a cert. for the Three J's. What about my little ride-a-cock-horse, Mr. Buckland?" The bookmaker referred to his card. "Four-Pound-the-Second," he said. "Give you forties." "Forties!" guffawed Old Mat. "A young giraffe like him, dropped this spring in the Sarah desert under a cocoanut shy.
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