sartainty

If they can get anybody to put in their place, they may get out o’ the bargain; for they can, of a sartainty, give oceans o’ money to people, but can’t take any themselves, plase your Reverence.

The Lianhan Shee 1921

He seems to get just as much satisfaction out of the promise of heaven as he does out of the sartainty of t'other port.

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"I can't fix it to a sartainty," said the storekeeper.

Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters William Murray Graydon 1905

Ef we dive at first we may get off; it'll be so dark they won't see us with any sartainty beyond fifty yards.

True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence 1867

On the one side there is a hard life, with bad food and the chance of being shot at, and the sartainty of being ordered about and not being able to call your life your own.

The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain 1867

Now she'll be froze to death, 'less I goes out in de storm to look for her; an' maybe she'll be froze anyway; for dere's no sartainty 'bout my findin 'of her.

Ishmael In the Depths Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

"My boy," said the landlord, "you'll have the nightmare to a dead sartainty."

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

"My boy," said the landlord, "you'll have the nightmare to a dead sartainty."

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Ever since that time, I have been wide awake with a wounded bar - sartainty or stand off, being my motto.

The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports 1854

What I wants is a sartainty for myself, and for Dory.

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852