Should

Examples

• Constantly she talked to me about what I should do to be thy wife. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Which of them had a step so quiet, a hand so gentle, but I should have heard or felt her, if she had approached or touched me in a day-sleep? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The vestry was larger than I should have supposed it to be, judging from the outside only. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In both, as I should imagine, he replied. Plato. The Republic.
• Legree, in a fury, swore she should be put to field service, if she would not be peaceable. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I should like to know in what I'm your inferior? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All the troops you can quickly assemble should be brought. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But pray, Colonel, how came you to conjure out that I should be in town today? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• We should lose no time, Prince, replied Kantos Kan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, said Estella, and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But why should I not bear it as others have borne it before me! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It's a pity he should break his neck himself, and disappoint the sight-seers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was determined not to open my lips, lest my voice should betray me to Berkeley Craven. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• If I were to let her come, he said to himself, I should have to let her go again. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• You that should be models of industry are just as gossip-loving as the idle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Be dazed if I should like a relation of mine to have been made such a fool of by a man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There should be somebody with her, said Rebecca. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He wished, too, that the officers should be appointed altogether by himself, and not be nominated by the people, as the bill had proposed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• However opinions may differ on a variety of subjects, I should think it would be universally agreed, Sir Leicester, that I am not much to boast of. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We looked forward to the day when I should go out for a ride, as we had once looked forward to the day of my apprenticeship. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Why should I mind saying I want to get into society? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Worcester declared that he looked forward to no hope nor rest until we should be really married. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It was not possible that the occurrence should not be strongly recommending each to the other. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Resolved, as your discriminating good sense perceives, that if you was to have a sap--pur--IZE, it should be a complete one! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Both should be forbidden, in my judgment; I would take the annual produce and no more. Plato. The Republic.
• You should do so, Sir,' said Pott, with a severe countenance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Had you been rustic, clownish, awkward, I should have been content. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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