Eleven tricks would surely earn him a top score, and settling for nine by rejecting the finesse might be a bottom.

"An attempt on my life," he muttered finally, "surely earns me the gold you brought."

Because Williams managed a hit in five at-bats and played center as if he did not need a compass, he surely earned more playing time.

People who require household employees to manage their lives surely earn enough to contribute something toward these women's elder years.

He felt a sudden alarm for the boy, an urge to protect him from the disaster that his rhetoric would surely earn him.

The piece had entertaining stretches, and at a time when "attitude" counts for something, it surely earned points.

A victory by Schilling would surely earn him the most valuable player award and make him the first pitcher to win five games in a postseason.

To hand her over to them would surely earn her a high place.

Professor Marsden, who has written influential studies of fundamentalism and, more recently, the secularization of higher education, surely earned every penny.

Bringing them Voth transwarp technology would surely earn their favor.