sure as can be

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It's as sure as can be that he took the bonds.

From The Tin Box and What it Contained by Alger, Horatio

“I don’t care,” said Jack discontentedly; “I’m as sure as can be that this gun don’t shoot straight.”

From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Hildibrand, Henri Théophile

I'll make the family feud work into my idea, sure as can be!

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

You should have had it, as sure as can be, if I hadn’t.”

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

Widow Brown immediately screamed out, "'Las-a-day! as sure as can be, here are my redstreaks; I can swear to them in any court."

From Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. by More, Hannah