In my opinion, sirs, we ought not to admit this fellow to the same rank with ourselves; rather ought we to deprive him of his captaincy, and load him with packs and treat him as such.
But mesdames received her so unsatisfactorily, that my own feelings told me, I ought not to be presented at court under her auspices.
Arthur Fletcher was her friend, but at the present moment he ought not so to have spoken of him.
And in regard to money he would say to himself that he ought not to interfere with any whim of hers on that score, unless he thought it right to crush the whim on some other score.
But she did feel that she ought not to be afraid, or that her fears, at any rate, should not be allowed to restrain her.
He had a keen sense of ill-usage, and at the same time a feeling that he ought not to run out of the borough like a whipt dog, without showing his face to any one.
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Perhaps I ought not to be at all surprised to see you as you are now: I know so little of you.
Their notion is, that a man must have some degree of honesty; and that if he has none at all he ought notto be in the world.
As yet I ought not to say the same of Paralus and Xanthippus themselves, for they are young and there is still hope of them.
All at once Diamond thought it was saying its prayers, and he ought not to be staring at it so.
A boy like that," he said, "ought not to be pushed.
What could it matter what people called him, so long as he did nothing he ought not to do?
As to any argument derived from a supposed system of influence, it is a sufficient answer to say that it ought not to be presumed; but the supposition is susceptible of a more precise answer.
Our own experience has taught us, nevertheless, that additional fences against these dangers ought not to be omitted.
I'll bet," replied Sancho, "that your worship thinks I have done something I ought not with my person.
We ought not solely to compare the highest members of a class at any two periods.
He spoke of the theory of evolution as an unproved hypothesis, and declared that it ought not to be taught in the schools, because it was dangerous to the State.
He also said that we ought not to try and make out what Hutton would have taught and thought, if he had known the facts which we now know.
This worthy gentleman declared in open court that it was not legal, and that it ought not to have the least weight in the minds of the jurors; upon which it was ruled, that the witness should proceed no further, and he was dismiss'd.
And I really must say again that you ought notto be in such a hurry, and wait for a few years.
I suppose I ought not to have taken you into that vault.
Oh, it was not much--perhaps a thing I ought not to ask,' she said hesitatingly.
It was that I ought not to think about you if I loved you truly.
Whatever his opinions or beliefs, an unhappy man is, before all else, an unhappy man; and we ought not to attempt to turn his face to our holy mother Church until we have saved him from despair or hunger.
A spy is no longer a man; he ought not to have feelings; he is a wheel of the machinery; Bryond did his duty.
We ought not to ask too much a new arrival, who has been spared great misfortunes and knows nothing of religion; and who, moreover, has only an excessive curiosity about our vocation, and does not yet believe in us.
He, whom a doubtful promise of distant good could encourage to set difficulties at defiance, ought not to remit his vigour, when he has almost obtained his recompense.
Then I ought not to have done business with him at all," Wingrave said coolly.
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