Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. From LearnThat.org. [Clementine Paddleford, author of Clementine Paddelford's Cook Young Cookbook.]
I ought, indeed children, no too soon but a wife if the world went as it ought . From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XIV] Reference
The term ought to be fuzzy because the concept is a bit fuzzy. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I think the title ought to have a scientific sound to it, sir. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
Just sent hey I think the title ought to be "A Spy in the Net.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cuckoo's Egg] Reference
I was so convinced that the title ought to be reversed, and that it should be. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
The title ought to be: men perceive women with large chins as prone to cheating. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
Haley Barbour (R) over when the special election for the rest of the term ought to be held. From Wordnik.com. [MS-SEN] Reference
(The title ought to clue you in that I possibly, maybe, perhaps not really know what I'm talking about.). From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
The meaning determining fact, Kripke argues, must be such that it follows from it how the term ought to be applied (ibid: 11). From Wordnik.com. [The Normativity of Meaning and Content] Reference
Erik begged that some substantial gift should be added to the name, declaring that the bestowal of the title ought to be graced by. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Though the weakness of the title ought to be a warning, no number of labels on the box could prepare you for the horror of the film within. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
“Segelfoss Town” in 1915 and “The Growth of the Soil” — the title ought to be “The. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger] Reference
“Surely a waltz with some angelic creature must have inspired you, Moscheles, with this composition, and that the title ought to express. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian and French Composers]
Every sonnet, in short, ought to be a translation. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3] Reference
His name ought never to pass my lips, only in my prayers. '. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
I am inclined to think that the word ought to have been written. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850] Reference
"She would say -- Doctor Benjulia, your name ought to be Herod."'. From Wordnik.com. [Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time] Reference
A word ought to be said which applies to all the Esquimaux we met. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
The guy who came up with the name ought to get a raise in Washington. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005] Reference
Afterward Basil said they made him feel as if his name ought to be Methuselah. From Wordnik.com. [The Heather-Moon] Reference
He peremptorily refused; saying that his word ought to be sufficient to satisfy them. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac T. Hopper] Reference
The commentators are not all agreed as to the exact sense that the word ought to bear. From Wordnik.com. [The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis] Reference
'Unspeakable,' and, as the word ought to be rendered, not 'full of glory' but 'glorified.'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference
So much for some of the "NOTES AND QUEERIES" (as the word ought to be spelt) of a century ago. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850] Reference
Thus you see I don't think my name ought to head your introductory paragraph -- and there an end. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Reference
Certainly they had seen somebody who looked as though his name ought to be Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard!. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Charles Darwin] Reference
"Your name ought to be Rose," Anne giggled involuntarily as she glanced down at her because someone had stared. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
I did balk at that; I thought my word ought to be sufficient; but he and his mother pleaded and pleaded with me. From Wordnik.com. [Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest] Reference
I had expected the lecture to be, from first to last, so clever that not a word ought to be taken from or added to it. From Wordnik.com. [Youth] Reference
"You ought not to whisper in English, ought you?" was Fanny's very significant response, uttered in the German tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School] Reference
My brother, in short, ought to have composed the distich, because he says so, and because he confided it to me tete-'a-tete. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 01: Childhood] Reference
This handsome young gentleman of title ought not to be escaping with this restored buoyancy of mien, and this complacency of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
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