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sure-enough

[shoor-i-nuhf, shur-] / ˈʃʊər ɪˈnʌf, ˈʃɜr- /
















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Teacher Anthony is a sure-enough sculptor who has studied under Carl Milles, works not only in soap but in wood, bronze, stone.

From Time Magazine Archive

They seem to be straining every nerve to convince you that they are done with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story.

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One day a sure-enough snake turned up in the plausible person of Henri Gauthier-Villars, a 34-year-old literary hack who married her and then shut her up in his Paris garret.

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A slender amputation case in a lower, still staring through the window into the dark countryside, said: 'I knew a real sure-enough model' and went on in detail about her.

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I've said to myself that it was safe for me to wade around in the edges if you could plunge out in the sure-enough swimming-hole.

From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde


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