shouldest
- a variation of shouldst.
Example Sentences
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Why shouldest thou degrade it so far, as to subject it to the frail, base, and frivolous things of this life?
From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann
If any of us, O king, transgress the boundaries of justice, thou art at hand to correct us; but if thou shouldest exceed them, who is to condemn thee?
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Then answered I and said, What man is able to do that, that thou shouldest ask such things of me?
From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by Holyoake, George Jacob
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.—John xvii.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph
"Better is it," says the Book of Ecclesiastes, "that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay."
From The High Heart by King, Basil
