"Sure thing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hal," I replied, regretfully. "But we're talking as if it were a dead sure thing that I'm going West. Well, I ...
— The Young Forester • Zane Grey
... secure more game than they now do, for the most of those I have seen them lose in this way went down after the hunter had approached within easy range—say twelve or fifteen yards. They are so anxious, however, to make a sure thing of it that they often try to get too near. I have frequently timed an Inuit as he started for a seal on the ice, and found it takes about an hour from the time he starts in pursuit until the shot is fired. It is amusing to watch the countenance of the ...
— Schwatka's Search • William H. Gilder
... intelligence—those are the ones who understand the magnitude and the security and the ultimate paying certainties of the proposition which I have to offer you. You may consider yourself fortunate. It is not everyone who has the opportunity to get in on the ground floor, as it were, on a sure thing money-accumulating business. By the way, where is ...
— Skookum Chuck Fables - Bits of History, Through the Microscope • Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)
... Maybe nobody but some harmless critter. Can't always tell. But there is one sure thing," added Mr. Hammond slowly. "We crossed the trail of that gang of horse thieves where they broke up into two parties. One party skirted the range, going north. We followed the others because they were ...
— Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch • Annie Roe Carr
... he said to himself, "that's old Lone Pine, sure thing. I reckon we-all's got to make ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White
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