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1  It ought to be cut down, she insisted.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In II
2  "If you meant to engage a girl you ought to have told me before you started," he said.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
3  "I know I ain't anything like as smart as I ought to be," she went on, while he vainly struggled for expression.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In II
4  Oh, Matt, I thought we'd fetched it," he moaned; and far off, up the hill, he heard the sorrel whinny, and thought: "I ought to be getting him his feed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
5  Ethan felt confusedly that there were many things he ought to think about, but through his tingling veins and tired brain only one sensation throbbed: the warmth of Mattie's shoulder against his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
6  "I felt a little mite better, and Dr. Buck says I ought to eat all I can to keep my strength up, even if I ain't got any appetite," she said in her flat whine, reaching across Mattie for the teapot.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
7  It got about the next day," she went on, "that Zeena Frome had sent Mattie off in a hurry because she had a hired girl coming, and the folks here could never rightly tell what she and Ethan were doing that night coasting, when they'd ought to have been on their way to the Flats to ketch the train.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX