It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— be commanded or requested to
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Macmillan
— used for saying that you think something is probably true because nothing else seems possible
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Usage
1 use of ‘must’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
308 uses of ‘must’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
31 uses of ‘must’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
87 uses of ‘must’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle