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Example sentences for "should live"

  • And Abram inquiring also concerning Ismael, whether he should live or not, God signified to him that he should live to be very old, and should be the father of great nations.

  • He also told me where I should live, also yourself and others, and a great many other things.

  • At 9 o'clock in the evening the Lord said to me that division would take place between the north and south within six years, and much blood would be spilt, and I should live to see it.

  • That silenced them, and when she was two weeks old they presented the child to me; I took it in my arms and blessed it, that it should live to become a mother in Israel.

  • Mr R enjoined me to correspond with him on every opportunity, gave me his blessing, and some urgent advice to eschew poetry, and prophesied that he should live to see me posted.

  • Did I ask how I should live, the answer came from the limitless spaces within me as clearly as though written on this page.

  • He called me the princess and planned great houses in which we should live, and he would talk of our travels and the wonderful places we should see together.

  • I little thought as ever I should live to be one.

  • When he had the power of utterance again, he said with great emotion, that he hoped he should live to deserve this; and added, that he had no other observation whatever to make.

  • Cherry, clasping her hands; 'and oh, good gracious, that I should live to be shook!

  • I wish that thou shouldst live, and thou also wishest that I should live.

  • Reflecting on the Vedas and discharging all the duties (in respect of contemplation and overt acts), he should live, dutifully waiting upon his preceptor and always bowing unto him.

  • And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

  • If we lived in closer fellowship with God, we should live in an atmosphere of continual calm, and nothing, either sorrowful or joyful, would be able so to sweep us off our feet that we should be bewildered by it.

  • The divine message assured him that he should live; it testified of Christ's approbation of his past, and promised him that, in recompense for that past, he should have wider work to do.

  • It is the wish of our heavenly Father that every heart should rejoice and be filled with happiness, that we should live together in felicity and joy.

  • Surely He has created us for love; therefore, we should live in accordance with His will.

  • We are His sheep and, therefore, should live together in love and unity.

  • If it seems good to your Grace, I pray you scotch this snake while he is in your garden, lest he should live to sting you when you walk abroad.

  • The Man who came to visit me in my dream at Avignon and told me that I should live," she answered slowly.

  • When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I was married.

  • That ever I should live to see thee dead!

  • And he ought to be fitted, in case he should live, for as many years as he can fulfill of the duties of his position; its enjoyments, alas!

  • Block and Curling whether it was not necessary that he should live.

  • He had spoken to her, because in the narrow confines of their home it was almost impossible that he should live in the house with her without doing so.

  • But I was so confident that my Master would die, and that I should live, that I would rather perform all offices towards him, than to admit of a partner to plunder the House with me when he was dead.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    should advise; should appear; should attempt; should bring; should choose; should come; should desire; should happen; should haue; should move; should please; should read; should really; should return; should say; should seem; should slay; should soon; should strive; should suppose; should take; should then; should think you would; should very much like; should vote; the darkness