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1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxxiii. f. ccciii/2 Let vs holde styll our beleue, and lette no man put it fro vs, without there be greater apparaunce of a surer foundacyon, than we se as yet.

1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes xii. 15 Carpenters to be brought from the sure lande to repayre the navey.

1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) 2 Tim. ii. 19 The sure grounde of God remayneth.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxviii. C I wil laye a stone in Sion,..for a sure foundacion.

1616 P. Hay Vision Balaams Asse To King sig. ¶4 The prosperity of the Church and the felicity of this kingdome haue no sure fundament now.

1651 H. Delaune Πατρικον δωρον 28 Humilitie..alone Opens the Gate to blest Eternitie; No surer Base; no firmer Corner-stone.

1665 J. Sergeant (title) Sure-footing in Christianity, or Rational Discourses on The Rule of Faith.

1732 J. Anderson Royal Genealogies 223 Romulus having rest from War since the 21st Year of his Reign imploy'd his Time in settling the Government upon the surest Foundation.

1760 T. Warton Descr. Winchester 85 The Church of Winchester is situated in a low Ground, which, without great Precaution and Expence, affords no very sure Foundation for so weighty a Structure.

1832 H. Martineau Homes Abroad ii. 32 I am anxious to go on sure ground.

1888 A. C. Freeman Amer. Decisions 96 246 If the filling up of plaintiffs' lot be done so that the improvement of the street may have a sure base upon which to rest, their machinery and building must be removed at enormous costs.

1902 M. Maclean Lit. Celts i. 5 Though early British and German history is so elusive, we are on sure ground with the main facts of Celtic progress on the Continent.

2012 B. Regan Gothic Pride x. 95 The majestic site in Morningside Heights disguised..the amount of excavation required to put the cathedral on a sure foundation.