What is "surely"

Usage examples of "surely".

Kaiku had always been stubborn and wilful, but to be an Aberrant was surely indefensible?

But even admitting this derivation from a unity--a unity however not predicated of them in respect of their essential being--there is, surely, no reason why each of these Existents, distinct in character from every other, should not in itself stand as a separate genus.

Year 551, we offer up praises to God, His Son and the Holy Spirit for the success of the enterprise, and admonish all loyal subjects within the bounds of the Empire to join with us in this celebration, for surely we are delivered for the purpose of Christian vindication throughout the world.

If Aikido can be said to specialize, it is in arm and wrist locks, finger holds and arm throws, but the man surely recognized a good leglock too.

Surely, with such tremendous power and influence, he might be the man to inform of the existence of Alata and so be discharged of his mission at last.

At first I believed they would surely tear their wings uponthe branches of the trees, but in looking more closely I saw that the great branches of the trees had been cut away to allow about twenty feet clearance, giving the alated an entrance and exit to the world.

Not that he had been anything like Alder or Dogal, but he surely had the advantage of a few inches over his great-nephew, both in height and circumference.

Surely, in these names, and such as these, there can be no uplift or inspiration to young men toward that unselfish service and earnest work which alone shall help toward the amelioration of the world.

Even if they were no more than mendicants and anchorites, he would join them gladly, for surely they would accept him simply for what he was.

Surely no member of the ruling class would help any man to reverse the anima, especially not one who stood about two of her inches high.

If Aris, whom Gird trusted, said he had the healing magery, surely Gird would let him learn to use it.

Every so often, he would take the slowmatch from out the clamp and whirl it around several times in the air before once more securing it back into the serpentine of his clumsy arquebus, for if that scurvy, ill-natured pig of a Seosaidh Scot who had robbed him of his well-earned sleep and set him to this useless, thankless task should come by and find his match unlit, he surely would set about thrashing Raibert.

Madelyne would most surely have recognized him, and I could not believe that I would not have learned from someone--her, Astel, Stroker, one of them--that I might indeed not only be a bastard, but a royal bastard to boot.

Surely this is madness, Atene, for how knowest thou in what likeness thou mightest be sent to tread the earth again?

Surely did I begin to believe they meant themselves to be seen, and yet, when a bloodied male appeared from the side of the dwelling, to stagger and fall nearly upon them, they quickly hugged the ground as though attempting invisibility.