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Example sentences for "should cease"

  • A significant scraping and coughing warns the annoying speaker when he should cease: if the warning is not taken, a tempest drowns his voice: when he appeals to the chair, the chair recommends him to yield to the temper of the House.

  • Where but in the capitol of his country, to which all the throbbings and hopes of his heart had been given, would the dying patriot be so willing that those hopes and throbbings should cease?

  • But Clive was a bolder man than Vansittart, and he resolved that "double batta" should cease forthwith, except at Allahabad, where the troops were considered as being actually in the field.

  • If patriotism had departed the land, if the streams of foreign corruption had flowed so far that the people were ready to rise in opposition to their Government, it was indeed time that foreign intercourse should cease.

  • It is ignorantly supposed that the bargain was, that the traffic should cease in 1808; but the only thing secured by it was, the right of Congress (not any obligation) to prohibit it at that period.

  • In another, it is pained by the continued existence of sin and unholiness, and must desire that the sinner should cease to be sinful.

  • If he should cease to concern himself with the stars, if he should cease to prophesy, not alone should he restore peace to his beloved grandmother, and pay the tribute of respect to Sir Tiglath, but he should do more.

  • For we had resolved, sir, by that time that with me the Almanac should cease.

  • Were I to do so, I should cease to be a man.

  • If I could laugh at myself till it had become incredible to you, I also, by degrees, should cease to believe that I had cared for him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    account for; learned friend; should also; should call; should endeavor; should expect; should fail; should get; should here; should imagine; should judge; should leave; should lose; should much; should not; should pray; should produce; should say; should seeme; should speak; should stand; should write; shouldst thou; three brigades; what had; will confess