A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

Usage examples of surety.

Perhaps there was the faintest echo, but if Stafford was bespelled, it was so well done or the spell so small that he could not sense it with any surety.

For surety, Mammy Venus parted the pecking lot of birds, dragging her feet to erase all signs of her art.

She had weight, and heft, and her surety was like the sharpened edge of a killing blade.

He put up a great deal of money, pledged as surety for his good behavior, and they let him gobut it was a near thing.

It was not likely she would come to harm-not if Beata planned to ransom her back to King Voth of the North-and yet there was no surety of this.

Know, then, that among this people there is great reverence for the growing of hair, and he that is hairiest is honoured most, wherefore are barbers creatures of especial abhorrence, and of a surety flourish not.

Further, just as our faith receives its surety from Scripture, so were the disciples assured of their faith in the Resurrection by Christ appearing to them.

But this morning had found him uprooted from the security of his home, the long-ingrained routines, the surety of his woodshop job and the status accrued in the course of living twenty years within those foreboding walls.

While my papers were being handed round I saw expressed on every face surprise and indignation, but the superintendent replied haughtily that he was at Amiens to administer justice, and that I could not leave the town unless I paid the fine or gave surety.

While the bloodhounds were dawdling along the trail, untangling it slowly, but with the surety of death, these swift hounds would kill enough food for the entire pack.

I know of a surety what this Sword will do, and I wot the oil he distilleth strengtheneth Shagpat but against common blades.

At Naples he had cheated the Chevalier de Morosini by persuading him to become his surety to the extent of six thousand ducats, and now he arrived in Florence in a handsome carriage, bringing his mistress with him, and having two tall lackeys and a valet in his service.

Martinelli translated what I said to the old woman, who told me that if I liked to keep her on as housekeeper I need not have a surety, and that it would only be necessary for me to pay for each week in advance.

I would not stand surety for the most learned of men, and I know nothing about your learning.

Then the two rascally servants said that if I would not be surety in the same manner on their account, they would have Medini arrested.