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Example sentences for "would show"

  • But any way I had a hold of this letter and a peace of another letter that Shaffer really did write it and I thought I would show them to Capt.

  • I was mighty glad to hear from you and learn you would show me around Cologne.

  • We had again got very near the castle, when John Jones told me that if we would follow him, he would show us something very remarkable: I asked him what it was.

  • He hurried away, and presently returned with his nephew, to whom I offered half-a-crown provided he would show me all about Pen Caer Gyby.

  • He asked me whether I could read Welsh, and on my telling him I could, he said that if I would walk in he would show me a Welsh book.

  • But he would show to the meeting that there was one individual who could do such an act.

  • The following extracts from the published addresses of some of the most eminent and gifted supporters of the Colonization Society, would show, that the compulsory removal of the colored population, had from the first been contemplated.

  • I tore the paper into ten thousand pieces, and then vowed, that as I was with criminals, and classed as such, I would show a felon's spirit.

  • Charley intimated that he would show us the way, but Fred held back.

  • However, von of the chaps said that he would show me a man vot helped in the business to-morrow night, if I vished.

  • Occasionally I could hear the sharp crack of the American rifle, and I felt sorry to think that my countrymen were fighting against men who would show them no mercy if victory perched upon the banner of the government officials.

  • It would show, that although we are willing amicably to adjust our differences, yet that we are not only resolved on, but prepared for that resort which cannot fail to restore our violated rights.

  • To agree to the motion proposed, would show a degree of cowardice, and effectually put it out of their power to consider and determine upon the subject.

  • Whatever gentlemen may now think or determine on, it was probable we should at some time become a naval power; and even with the most distant prospect of that, it would show economy to prepare for it.

  • Having discussed my ale I asked the landlord if he would show me the grave of Huw Morris.

  • We had again got very near the castle, when John Jones told me that if we would follow him he would show us something very remarkable; I asked him what it was.

  • Any man once getting footing there, and leaving it, except on compulsion, would show himself of weak mind.

  • Any man once comfortably settled there in an easy chair, who fetched anything for himself when he could get any one else to fetch it for him, would show himself, in my opinion, a man of weak mind.

  • He would show us a good place, in a fork, where it was impossible to cross on two sides, and where they would be easily kept together; that was, if we liked to risk it.

  • I would show my mistress how little I cared.

  • It was not so much that I would show Nancy what I intended to do--I would show myself; and I felt a sudden elation, and accession of power that enabled me momentarily to despise the puppets with whom she danced.

  • I would show my father, these companions of mine, and above all Nancy herself the stuff of which I was made, compel them sooner or later to admit that they had misjudged me.

  • Old man as he was, a braver man than myself might have been excused had he declined the task of tackling him, and I had the additional spur of knowing that if he got the better of me he would show no mercy.

  • To my surprise Pharos received the news with greater equanimity than I had expected he would show.

  • Poor blind worm that I was, I hugged this conceit to my heart, and the more I did so the more resolved I became in my own mind that, when I did meet him, I would show no mercy.

  • But E-li-jah said that he would show him-self to A-hab that day.

  • And God told A-bra-ham to leave his home and go to a land which he would show him.

  • I would show it next when, having left the harbour, the Zouave began to lift on the swell.

  • I would show it fluttering and astonished, as if feeling the first premonitions of distress.

  • I would show it to you first at the departure, proud and stately as it was then, crowning that noble Tarascon head.

  • Would you not be obliged to me if I would show you a public-house?

  • When I had tried a couple of mouthfuls the squatter came down to me and said he would show me a bed where I could lie down.

  • The storekeeper where I bought it, as well as one good friend after the other, would show me how I could save two-thirds of the rum and still keep it over-proof by mixing it with water and tobacco.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little powdered; pale gray; really have; would ask; would choose; would consider; would create; would hardly; would have been glad; would have been the; would have thee know; would help; would indeed; would kill; would make; would needs; would remember; would ride; would seek; would seem; would sell; would sometimes; would stay; would still; would want; would wish