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Example sentences for "should fall"

  • It was in all our minds that at daybreak our men would attack from Bridgwater, driving the Danes back on us, and so we should fall on them while they were retreating, and complete the victory.

  • There must I lie still, lest I should fall and be made to look more foolish yet, and when I sat up, crosslegged thereon, they stopped shouting and stared at me.

  • If I should fall," he whispered to him, "take my last greetings to your wife, and tell her that I died with her name on my lips!

  • I should go mad first, I should die, I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water.

  • It was time that this vast man should fall.

  • Foreseeing this contingency, I arranged with him that in the event of his finding it necessary to retire, he should fall back on the little creek, near the old Depot.

  • Before dawn we were up, and drained the last drop of water, if so it could be called, out of the little trench we had made, and reserving a gallon for the first horse that should fall, divided the residue among them.

  • The natives had previously informed us, as far back as the place where we shot the first bullock, that we should fall in with other cattle hereabouts; we did not however see any of them during the day.

  • If now he should fall in a fit thou wert to blame.

  • On deliberation it was resolved, however, that only the tower, which commanded some portions of the castle, should fall.

  • Her fear for her Wenceslas was that he should fall in with street prostitutes.

  • If it should fall out so unfortunately that she is not married before she is five or six-and-twenty, it will be extremely hard to marry her at all.

  • I was pleased, yet I trembled lest he should fall in love with her!

  • In spite of that, it was doubtless decreed that I should fall in love with her skin, for that was all she had.

  • You will ever reproach yourself if it should fall.

  • If I should fall, you must take the command of the army.

  • Although he had been out for some hours, he insisted on accompanying me when he found that I had resolved on proceeding, till we should fall in with his brothers.

  • I was somewhat fearful lest he should fall, but I caught him, and we shook hands for a minute at least, his voice almost choking as he exclaimed, "I am glad!

  • The Jew to whom I applied traded with me also upon the belief that my brother Saladin, with whose character and circumstances he was acquainted, would pay my debts, if I should fall.

  • When a bullet killed one of their companions, they only observed, scarcely taking the pipes from their mouths, 'Our hour is not yet come: it is not the will of Mahomet that we should fall.

  • And two men there were who led between them Beorn, holding him lest he should fall, either from weakness or terror, close to the jarl.

  • Yet I thought it well to take his dagger from where it lay, lest he should fall on me in some frenzy.

  • Now at that I was very glad, for of all things I had most feared lest I should fall on the Frisian shores, for if so, I should surely be made a slave, and maybe sold by the lord of the coast to which I came.

  • But I made after a solempne vowe unto my selfe, that if ever he and I were matched together at that boarde agayne, whan we should fall to our flattrye, I would flatter in latin, that he should not contende with me no more.

  • He had long before told Mr. Johnson, that 'he was very sensible he should fall a sacrifice; arbitrary government could not be set up in England without wading through his blood.

  • Suppose I should fall asleep, and be robbed?

  • Up hill and down we galloped, until it seemed to me I should fall off my horse and die.

  • I remembered what the colonel had told me, about the general being a strict disciplinarian, and wondered if it wouldn't help matters if I should fall on my knees and say a little prayer, or ask him to spare my life.

  • Yet they say that the larks are much afraid of it; for if it should fall, they must all be taken.

  • And if by some mishap I should fall sick, I would be looked to very waywardly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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