Sport was not withoutcompunction which might well, in an age that counts itself humane, be expected to come oftener.
The woman whose dirty book I have just thrown away--and I feel no compunction for having done it,--is destitute of grammar as well as decency.
Blanche had broken her word for perhaps the first time in her life; but it had never before been extorted from her by duress, and it would be affectation to credit her with much compunction on the point.
At Engelberg he had proposed to her "inside of two weeks," as he had admitted without compunction at the time.
His lack of compunction over the cruelty bears upon it the stamp of his age and environment.
That settled it, he told himself; he no longer had the slightest compunction in cutting Ashton out; the fellow was not worth a moment's consideration.
While we were holding down the man, I examined his countenance, and was sure that he was one of those who had so outrageously attacked our house, I therefore felt no compunction at the way we were treating him.
I do not mean to say for one moment that the white men are not to blame; they have too often deceived the Indians and have driven them without compunction from the region they once called their own.
And this fevered conflict was shot through with yet another pang; for the waking smart of compunction which had risen at Jessica's bitter cry, "You helped to make him what he has become!
She did not catch the deep compunction in the judicial utterance.
She had a keen sense of the compunction he must feel, and longed, as love must, to reassure him.
All this history had been creditable, but nothing more; and Mrs. Emery often looked at her elder daughter with compunctionfor her own earlier ignorance and helplessness.
When I heard that upon Arjuna having been seized with compunction on his chariot and ready to sink, Krishna showed him all the worlds within his body, then, O Sanjaya, I had no hope of success.
In this the high- souled Vasudeva by reasons based on the philosophy of final release drove away Arjuna's compunction springing from the latter's regard for his kindred (whom he was on the eve of slaying).
If they fire, Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down.
I struck him down with no more compunction than if he had been some foul and venomous beast.
But now, as he looked at the figure of the young man beside him on the balcony and noted the frank open countenance, the steady eye, he felt a pang of compunction at doubting him.
Perhaps I did feel something like compunction when I found this out, but that is all past now, and I am married to one of the best and kindest of men.
I should have no compunction if they were fools enough to throw me their money.
There is little in all this of compunction for the act, or of compassion for its victims.
For when was he ever known to relax his grasp on the victim once within his power, or to betray any feeling of compunction as to sweeping away an obstacle from his path?
Andrew Forbes would have felt more compunction had he seen Frank when he was alone; for the lad hurried to his room, where he stood trembling with agitation and thinking of what he should do.
He'd have killed your father with as little compunction as he would a rat.
That famous navigator sailed all along the African shore, between Cape de Verd and the Equator, trading for ivory, for gold dust, and especially for slaves, with as little compunction as Pedro Blanco himself.
They would devour this journal with as little compunction as so much blank paper--and a sermon as readily as the journal--nor would either meal lie heavy on their stomachs.
Even now, perhaps, his fold is broken into by some furious zealots, who will not show the same lingering compunction which is now, for a moment, sparing mine.
On his return he invariably took to his bed, and lay ill from remorse and compunction till a fresh summons for action arrived, when, seized by a sort of frenzy, he rose and led his men to fresh conflicts.
He had not a shadow ofcompunction at the fate that was about to befall these officials.
To the Marchioness this was an agreeable period of spiritual compunction and bodily repose; but to Donna Laura a season of despair.
Never perhaps had he been conscious of cutting a meaner figure; yet shame was so blent in him with admiration for the girl's nobility and courage, that compunction was swept away in the impulse that flung him at her feet.
True, she was very anxious about her mother, and some natural compunction assailed her as to the fate of her brother, in spite of his infamous conduct towards herself.
Even a ruffian like Zouroff would exercise some compunction when his sister was in question.
The Prince loved her in his rough, brutal way, but if she interfered with his plans, he would brush her out of his path with as little compunction as he would kill a fly that annoyed him with its impertinent buzzing.
What heart is forever exempt from the goadings of compunction and the influx of laudable propensities?
She was really and honestly sorry for Godfrey, and felt a genuine compunction about him--though not an overwhelming one.
About them, even as about the new woman who was to come into being, her dominant feeling was not compunction but curiosity.
Even father--" She stopped abruptly, a quick catch of compunction in her breath.
Masuccio felt no compunction in portraying vicious people as he knew them; but he reserved language of scathing vituperation for their enormities.
