well, to be sure en · INTJ
Meanings
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(obsolete) An exclamation of surprise.
[…]words that were quickly interrupted by a murmur of dismay at finding the room in total darkness. "Well to be sure! The lamp must have gone out!" she exclaimed,
1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 21:“My dear, I never saw him.” “And I never saw him !” returned Ada. Well, to be sure!
1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:
Synonyms
I'll be (well) · well, I never · wow