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Example sentences for "thou oughtest"

  • Thou oughtest verily at the first shaft Of things fallacious to have risen up To follow me, who was no longer such.

  • Thou oughtest not to have stooped thy pinions downward To wait for further blows, or little girl, Or other vanity of such brief use.

  • So, as I have fled to thee as a suppliant, holy Sthanu, with my mind pierced with grievous woe, thou oughtest even to pardon presumption in me.

  • Thou oughtest to love her, under a double consideration: (1.

  • Thou oughtest also to labour to draw them forth to God's public worship, if peradventure God may convert their souls.

  • God has given thee a rational soul, so thou oughtest to consecrate all the powers and faculties of it to his honor and service.

  • Him, therefore, thou oughtest to fear with holy reverence, and at the same time carefully beware of spiritual pride and presumption: for this would issue in the inevitable loss of the celestial jewel committed to thy trust.

  • But in order to regulate the grand work of salvation with the better order and care, thou oughtest now to walk in a submissive and filial fear of God, guarding against all that would gratify the flesh.

  • And as every cross, however small, is laid upon thee by the particular order and direction of Providence, so thou oughtest to receive it with thankfulness.

  • Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

  • But lead her in, and as thou oughtest, henceforward, Admetus, continue in thy piety with respect to strangers.

  • If in truth this be thy opinion, thou oughtest not to err, but if thou hast erred, be persuaded by me, for this is the next best thing thou canst do.

  • Thou oughtest surely to suffer a little for Christ when many suffer heavier things for the world.

  • If thou wilt stand fast and wilt profit as thou oughtest, hold thyself as an exile and a pilgrim upon the earth.

  • Thou oughtest to bring a bare and clean heart to God, if thou desirest to be ready to see how gracious the Lord is.

  • Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day.

  • Again, thou oughtest to patiently bear this calamity which hath flowed thine eyes with tears and hath greatly afflicted thee.

  • Thou oughtest to bear it with becoming patience.

  • Thou oughtest to be characterized with these, that thou mayest be an example for the maid-servants of the Merciful and a leader of the leaves who are moved by the winds of the love of God.

  • Thou oughtest to enter therein, and this is glad-tidings unto thee and to all those who have been expecting the advent of the Kingdom of their Lord with true heart turned toward God.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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