(Peculiar use.)
1833. I want you should give me a letter o’ recommend to Pheladelphy, as I ruther guess I shall go back that way.—John Neal, ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 80.
1839. “I want you should observe, sir,” continued Mr. Fingrum, while he polished the skull with the palms of his hands, “that a gentleman may have a development of very bad propensities, and yet be the best and noblest of his race.”—Charles F. Briggs, ‘Harry Franco,’ i. 106.
1837. I want the country should know who they are.—John Q. Adams, House of Repr., Feb. 9: Cong. Globe, p. 263, App.
1857. I want the world should see that. I want to make the slanderers eat their words.—Knick. Mag., l. 18 (July).
1891. I want you should happen down this road in twenty minutes.—Rose T. Cooke, ‘Huckleberries,’ p. 180 (Boston).
