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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Well," said Swan, looking up and meeting that "cock-sure" smile, "you think you can do it in a year?" "I'm certain I can." "Of course," Swan continued, not yet convinced, "it's the worst country on earth; full of swamp and yellow fever." "I'll run in a gang of Mexican Indians to lay the ties. They can stand their own climate."
Yes, sir, I don't believe I shall ever die afloat." "Don't be too cock-sure," said Frank dryly. "However, proceed." "Well," Jack continued, "I followed Captain Ames aboard the Falcon and we put to sea immediately.
There was the old gag of their nation or tribe being the chosen one. I don't care where you go, there is always the same thing. Every tribe and nation is cock-sure that theirs is the best. They have the bravest and the wisest men and the best women. But I kept nudging Somerfield. It was hard on him. He was the Judas and the traitor and all that.
Young man," he went on, turning to me, "you puts me in mind o' what I were at your age though, to be sure, I were taller 'n you by about five or six inches, maybe more but don't go for to be too cock-sure for all that. Black Jarge aren't to be sneezed at."
There were finalities on the war, finalities on the social unrest; finalities on art, life, religion, the past, present, and future. A cock-sure magazine, gently, tolerantly elbowing aside the mysteries of existence and holding up between carefully manicured thumb and forefinger the Gist of the Thing. The Irrefutable Truth. The Perfect Deduction.
He is cock-sure that the correct turning is the second on the right, and nothing will persuade him that it is the third. He is positive he can get across the road in time, and will not be convinced until he sees the cart smashed up. Then he is very apologetic, it is true. But of what use is that?
"Ay, but you like to be cock-sure of the stuff you drink, if e'er a man did," said the boatbuilder, whose eye blazed yellow in this frothing season of song and fun. "Right so, Will Moody!" returned the jolly butcher: "which means not wrong this time!" "Then, what's understood by your sticking prongs into your hostess here concerning of her brandy?
We pressed forward in silence through the shadowy labyrinth of the wood for a time, but at the crossing of a small runlet where we would stop to let the horses drink, Tybee burst out a-laughing. "'Tis as good as a play," he said. "Three several times I've had to change my mind about you, Captain Ireton, and I'm not cock-sure I have your measure yet.
He would so much have liked to play familiarly with the pretty, impertinent, pigtailed little girls, the bright, noisy, cock-sure little boys; but he didn't know how to set about it, and they didn't in the least encourage him to try. Children aren't by any means angels to one another. They are, as often as not, quite the reverse.
"'Course. I remember. Gardener up to the Edward Reidses," and McBirney thrilled as if an event had happened. "Uncle Ted" was "the Edward Reidses." It might be her name Reid. "He went away six or seven months ago, I think," McBirney suggested, breathing a bit fast. "I thought he might be back by now." "Nawp," said the cock-sure one. "I remember. 'Course. Family broke Up. Old man died."
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