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- phrase Obsolete form of
shouldn’t .
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Examples
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I'll find another way to make her quiet; or she shall have but very small Allowance: She tells me, Grief will kill her very shortly: I wish it wou'd, I shou'dn't grutch the Charges of giving her a Coffin and a Grave.
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I do vow I shou'dn't knaw how to zet about it -- I should not, indeed, zur.
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801
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_ That's it: if he had chuck'd it away afterwards, I shou'dn't have wonder'd.
John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799
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I shou'dn't wonder if the scoundrel call'd for my clerk, and sign'd my mittimus.
John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799
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_ To be sure it is; -- but men, like you, shou'dn't be too apt to lay hold of every sentiment justice drops, lest you misapply it.
John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799
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But you shou'dn't -- you shou'dn't have quitted your father.
John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799
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The blockhead, I believe, is so attach'd, I shou'dn't wonder if he flew off at a tangent, and married the girl that has bewitch'd him.
John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799
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_ They comed down stairs -- our customer and the brazier; and the head baily he began a bullocking at the old man, in my mind, just as one christian shou'dn't do to another.
John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799
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Maf, Why shou'dn't he, sir? when I've so often heard him protest that he loved you dearly.
Turn out! A musical farce, in two acts Matthew Peter 1812
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