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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Sure
 
Sure as monument of brass,
Their fame to future time shall pass.
            —Arthur Acheson		  1
  Sure as a club.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Sure as a stone drops from the hand which lets it go.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Sure as birth and death.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Sure as day and night succeed each other.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Sure as eggs in April.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Sure as gravity.
            —Anonymous		  7
  As sure as Heaven.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Sure as God’s in heaven.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Sure as I’m standing here.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Sure as March in Lent.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Sure as needles point to the north.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Sure as Silas Wegg is to drop into poetry.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Sure as tares.
            —Anonymous		  14
  As sure as that bubbles are in the form of a hemisphere.
            —Anonymous		  15
  As sure as that wild goose never laid a tame egg.
            —Anonymous		  16
  As sure as that the world is turned upside down every twenty-four hours.
            —Anonymous		  17
  Sure as the coat’s on your back.
            —Anonymous		  18
  Sure as the foot of a mule.
            —Anonymous		  19
  Sure as the opportune arrival of the detective on the final curtain of a melodrama.
            —Anonymous		  20
  Sure as the sun shines.
            —Anonymous		  21
  Sure as the steeple bears the bell.
            —Anonymous		  22
  Sure as two and two make four.
            —Anonymous		  23
  Sure as water is water.
            —Anonymous		  24
  Sure as you’re alive.
            —Anonymous		  25
  Sure as shootin’.
            —Anonymous		  26
  As sure as eggs and bacon.
            —Anonymous		  27
  Sure as an obligation sealed in the butter.
            —John Baret		  28
  Sure as a gun.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  29
  Sure as wedlock.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  30
  Sure as stars of hope.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  31
  Sure as sunrise.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  32
  Sure as you are there.
            —John Bunyan		  33
  Sure as death.
            —Pedro Calderón de la Barca		  34
  Sure as the wold gulls make seaward.
            —Bliss Carman		  35
  Sure … as the witch-hazel towards treasure.
            —George W. Curtis		  36
  Sure as a rock.
            —John Davies		  37
  Sure as sun-up.
            —Charles Dickens		  38
  Sure as the gospel.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  39
  Sure as roundness in the dewdrop.
            —George Eliot		  40
  Sure as the devil’s in London.
            —Henry Fielding		  41
  Sure as the fishes swim and birds do fly.
            —Gerhart Hauptmann		  42
  Sure as a juggler’s box.
            —William Carew Hazlitt (English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases)		  43
  Sure as Dover stands at Dover.
            —Thomas Hood		  44
  Sure as a horse when he knows his rider.
            —Richard Hovey		  45
  Sure as Time.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  46
  Sure as the shaft that leaves the Parthian bow.
            —Lucan		  47
  As sure as Heaven rained manna for the Jews.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  48
  Sure as the date on a bill.
            —George Meredith		  49
  Sure as earth lives under snows, and Love lives under pain.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  50
  Sure as fate.
            —G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)		  51
  Sure as God made little apples.
            —G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)		  52
  Sure as I’m alive.
            —G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)		  53
  Sure as you are born.
            —G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)		  54
  As sure as Christmas comes.
            —George Outram		  55
  Sure as is the march of doom.
            —Sandor Petöfi		  56
  Sure as death and taxes are.
            —Poor Robin’s Almanack		  57
  As sure as cold engenders hail.
            —Alexander Pope		  58
  Sure as key of lock.
            —Matthew Prior		  59
  As sure as a gun is iron.
            —Opie Read		  60
Sure as the sun rolls up the morn,
Or twilight from eve is born.
            —Charles Sangster		  61
  Sure as bark on a tree.
            —William Shakespeare		  62
  Sure as day.
            —William Shakespeare		  63
  Sure as I live.
            —William Shakespeare		  64
  Sure as I have thought or soul.
            —William Shakespeare		  65
  Sure as God made Moses.
            —Sam Slick		  66
  Sure as eggs is eggs.
            —Sam Slick		  67
  As sure as any gun.
            —Horace Smith		  68
  As sure as wax-candles have wicks.
            —Horace Smith		  69
  Sure as I hobble on ten toes.
            —James Smith		  70
  Sure as night is known from day.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  71
  Sure as present pain is.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  72
  Sure as truth.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  73
  Sure as sense of beast or bird.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  74
  Sure as comes the postman and the sun.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  75
  Sure as creed.
            —Izaak Walton		  76
  Sure as the most certain sure.
            —Walt Whitman		  77
  Sure as brook to run to river.
            —A. C. Wilke		  78
  As sure as there’s a moon in Heaven.
            —William Wordsworth		  79
 
 
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