If he felt any compunctions, she read nothing of the kind in his brown face and the steady stride carrying her straight to punishment.

I hadn't been able to lie to Diana; but I had no compunctions about doing it now, if it were to help Maxine.

[Footnote 7: He has compunctions, but it needs failure to make them potent.]

Ninon was the acknowledged guide and leader, and all submitted to her sway without the slightest envy or jealousy, and it may also be said, without the slightest compunctions or remorse of conscience.

It was the next morning, when we met together at breakfast, that our faces betrayed some compunctions; but these did not prevent us eating prodigiously.

" "'Twill appease Moll's compunctions into the bargain," says I, heedlessly.

"What compunctions?" "The word slipped me unintended," stammers I; "I mean nothing.

I overcome Moll's honest compunctions, lay hold of three thousand pounds more, and do otherwise play the part of rascal to perfection.

you also," adds she, overcoming her compunctions, "for this offer.

"The trial is severe," said the judge, who began to feel compunctions that were rare to one of his habits, "but it is as necessary to your own future peace, as it is to justice itself, that the truth should be known.

But you have the courage of your convictions; you have no compunctions about tearing open old wounds; and you come here, unasked and uninvited, to let me know what you think of my conduct, to let me understand that it does not agree with your own ideas of what I ought to do, and to tell me how I, who am old enough to be your father, should behave.

And she need have no compunctions about lowering the standard of art because the picture she had found out in the back room and surreptitiously hung in the night belonged in the gallery a great deal more than some of the pictures which had been solemnly carried in the front way.

But with a grimace she banished her compunctions in the thought of its being for the child's good, and hence a duty to society.

You needn't have any compunctions about playing the game.

The great charm, therefore, and comfort of Becky is, that we may study her without any compunctions.

Our little governess is now summoned away to attend her aunt's death-bed, who is visited by some compunctions towards her, and she is absent a month.

This time he felt some compunctions of conscience, but they were not as powerful as before; the first step had been already taken, and a second was much easier.

Now, sandal-wood was supposed to be used for the purposes of idolatry, being said to be burned before the gods of that heathenish people, Idolatry being one of the chiefest of all sins, Friend Abraham White had many compunctions and misgivings of conscience touching the propriety of embarking in the trade at all.

" Marco was displeased to hear the sailor call his cousin an old prig, and he felt some compunctions of conscience about forming and continuing an intimacy with such a person.

'He has compunctions, brother Masham,' said his worship: 'I told you so; he has compunctions.

'He has compunctions, brother Masham,' said his worship: 'I told you so; he has compunctions.

I had no compunctions on the score of their discomfort, for I felt that I had a score to settle with each of them.

" Mrs. Barsaloux, with many compunctions, and with some pangs of pure motherly sympathy, nevertheless agreed.

He was a young man, with no dependents, and we felt no compunctions of conscience, that dark night, when two wagon-loads of us, one of which came from the direction of Monterey Centre, drove quietly up and knocked at the door.

" Sophie looked troubled: she had some compunctions for the neglect of the last few days, perhaps.