1 You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
2 Their reason for choosing so unusual an hour for a consultation was obviously to insure that there should be no other patient in the waiting-room.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 3 Meanwhile, since it is too late to prevent this tragedy, I am very anxious that I should use the knowledge which I possess in order to insure that justice be done.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 4 Even if this lady should never recover consciousness, we can still reconstruct the events of last night and insure that justice be done.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 5 I came personally, Mr. Holmes, in order to insure that you would return with me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 6 To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
7 The least injudicious or impatient movement on the part of David might betray them, and time was absolutely necessary to insure the safety of the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 8 If Edgar Linton meets me, I shall not hesitate to knock him down, and give him enough to insure his quiescence while I stay.
9 To insure an army being victorious in battle you must inspire it with the conviction that it is certain to prevail.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII. 10 Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor and friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company.
11 All this profit-sharing and welfare work and insurance and old-age pension is simply poppycock.
12 I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord's policy of insurance.
13 And then again, when they went to pay their January's installment on the house, the agent terrified them by asking them if they had had the insurance attended to yet.
14 There was the rent to pay, and still some on the furniture; there was the insurance just due, and every month there was sack after sack of coal.
15 The victim was an insurance agent, and he had lost a hundred and ten dollars that did not belong to him.