I recognised all this, I say, in the momentary glance I cast at their stern and unresponsive figures; but the courage which had served me in lesser extremities did not fail me now, and, kneeling down before my dead betrothed, I kissed her cold white hand with sincere compunction, before attempting the garbled and probably totally incoherent story with which I endeavoured to explain the inexplainable situation.

Live well, I conjure you; and you will not feel the compunction at the last, which I now feel."

Noting the lack of compunction with which she played upon him before my very eyes, I divined that the late Colonel Lansdale had not found the need of pistols entirely done away with even by the sacrament of marriage.

The Pandavas and the Kauravas flew at one another's throats without compunction although they interdined and intermarried.

After a while a feeling of compunction seemed to come over him.

And the canon is just nobody, always bothering her for subscriptions; though he is very fond of her, like everybody else," she added, with compunction.

So, without compunction, Piero had taken the needful, sure that when he returned Marina's husband or her father would repay it.

Men die and kill without compunction; they excite revolutions and overthrow governments, sparing neither themselves nor others.

I had no twinge of compunction, for was this not fulfillment?

It is the part of sanity to throw it aside without compunction.

By these means the organized tours only take runners up to the standard advertised, and no one need feel compunction at leaving members of their party behind in the village, because they know that the elementary runner will also get a chance of a run.

" Ignorance had indeed been bliss in our case, and I felt some compunction when I remembered how disdainfully we had treated the ragged sergeant and his men.

"When our friends we lose, Our alter'd feelings alter too our views; What in their tempers, teazed or distress'd, Is with our anger, and the dead at rest; And must we grieve, no longer trial made, For that impatience which we then display'd? Now to their love and worth of every kind, A soft compunction turns the afflicted mind; Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

Quinby made room for me beside him, with a civility which might have caused me some compunction, but I repaid him by coming promptly to my point.

She knew that this was not quite fair, and the look that it brought to his facea twinge of pain like neuralgiaawakened a sharp compunction in her.

He was unaccustomed to compunction, but for a fleeting second, as he studied Tony Holiday standing there with bowed head, laving her hands in the sparkling purity of the water, he had an impulse to go away and leave her, lest he cast a shadow upon her by his lingering near her.

It was not the fashion of that period even for Princes of the Blood to make concessions whence they derived no personal benefit, and it was accordingly without any compunction that M. de Condé declared the terms upon which he would undertake the proposed mission.

And, though he had no morbid sense of responsibility in the matter, it struck him with something like compunction that he had put Greatorex into Alice's head chiefly to distract her from throwing herself at his.

Him the mighty-armed Jamadagni, of great austerities, addressed, saying, "Kill this wicked mother of thine, without compunction, O my son."

If a man was not in some degree akin to another he was no better than a beast, and might be killed like one without compunction whenever occasion arose.

On another page (406) he remarks that while a California boy is not "taught to pierce his mother's flesh with an arrow to show him his superiority over her, as among the Apaches and Iroquois," he nevertheless afterward "slays his wife or mother-in-law, if angry, with very little compunction."

But the people forget, that while they permitted, and even applauded, the past horrors, they were also accessary to them, and if they rejoice at their termination, their sensibility does not extend to compunction; they cast their sorrows away, and think it sufficient to exhibit their reformation in dressing and dancing

He knew, or thought that he knew, Mountjoy Scarborough to be a thorough blackguard; one whom no sense of honesty kept from spending money, and who was now a party to robbing his creditors without the slightest compunction,for it was in Harry's mind that Mountjoy and his father were in league together to save the property by rescuing it from the hands of the Jews.

Macgregor presently inquired with compunction as well as satisfaction.

There was no sting in her grief, no compunction, for she knew perfectly well how happy she had made him; and there was not the anguish, of personal loss, and want, and bereavement.