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Example sentences for "ought never"

  • Bees however, ought never to need feeding in Winter, and if they do, it will always be unsafe at this season to feed them with liquid honey.

  • It deprives them, at once, of all disposition to sting, but it ought never to be used for such a purpose.

  • Second swarms and all late and small first swarms, ought never to be purchased by one who has no experience in Apiarian pursuits.

  • Poetry ought not to take its course through the frigid region of memory; it ought never to convert learning into its interpreter, nor private interest its advocate with the popular mind.

  • Such a character--pardon the observation--ought never to have been made a confidant, or should never have been roused to enmity.

  • I ought never to have indulged my wishes, but have grown gray in the same dull manner in which I was brought up!

  • Republics, sir, ought never to be engaged in a foreign, offensive war; they are calculated only for defensive war.

  • War, in this country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so, as not to require the aid of logic to convince our reason, nor the ardor of eloquence to inflame our passions.

  • One part of the nation delights in using the sea; another in agriculture; we supply each other's wants; we ought never to dream of separation.

  • She had no nerves; he ought never to have married a woman eighteen years younger than himself.

  • If her grandfather would only buy it and settle that wretched claim that ought never to have been made on Phil!

  • I ought never to have such a thing to settle!

  • He ought never to have allowed the engagement.

  • You should have made him know--which he will do nearly intuitively--that a whip can punish him, though he ought never to have suffered from it.

  • The surgeon is bound to be skilful, but he ought never to be in a hurry.

  • The water in which salt meat has been boiled ought never to be employed.

  • Your cowardly seducer must pay with his life the penalty due to his crime, and he ought never to receive, by marrying you, an unjust reward, for he is not worthy of possessing you after degrading himself by the vilest conduct.

  • This mark of great confidence, and affectionate freedom, ought never to degenerate into an offensive familiarity.

  • I will briefly add, that those who are witnesses of all these ridiculous actions, ought never to notice them, unless they wish to be still more ridiculous themselves.

  • I ought never to have met you as I did--I ought never to have said what I did.

  • I ought never to of allowed you on our dock, let alone mixing with you.

  • I ought never to forget that my body is dwelt in by the third Person of the Godhead.

  • I ought never to forget that sin grieves the Holy Spirit,--vexes and quenches Him .

  • I am persuaded that I ought never to do anything without prayer, and, if possible, special, secret prayer.

  • It seemed to him that was the beginning of many unlawful glimpses, discoveries of things he ought never to have seen.

  • He ought never to have taken that little cup of black coffee!

  • He ought never, never to have been there.

  • He ought never to be in it excepting when asleep, and at night.

  • We ought never to appear before God, to tender him our homages or supplications, without trembling, and without being deaf to all creatures, and shutting all our senses to every object that can distract our minds from God.

  • He observes, that the silence of the night is peculiarly adapted to devout prayer, and the sighs of compunction: which exercise we ought never to interrupt too long; and by watching, prayer becomes more earnest and powerful.

  • Of course you're all right, and I ought never to have been born.

  • I ought never to have been born, of course; but that's quite another matter.

  • I ought never to have been born," he said, and his voice broke.

  • But I am wanted at home, and I am going back to my father; I ought never to have left him.

  • He who is of so lofty a rank as to be above repartee, ought never to joke in a racy kind of way.

  • Nothing has prevented my making her irrevocably mine, but her too scrupulous adherence to a promise she ought never to have given, and which your Lordship ought never to have extorted.

  • Your promise to my father is nugatory; for it ought never to have been given.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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