shouldst
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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John Donne, thou shouldst be living at this hour!
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2015
His epigraph from George Herbert perhaps speaks most adequately for him: "O that Thou shouldst give dust a tongue to crie to Thee."
From Time Magazine Archive
And the Preacher counsels: Be not over muck wicked . . . why shouldst thou die before thy time?
From Time Magazine Archive
Freud, thou shouldst be living at this hour .
From Time Magazine Archive
“They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets, and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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