Some scruples as to a theologian and pastor being so entirely preoccupied with educational questions he had, however, to overcome.
It was not forscruples against looking that she paused.
The Baptist would hasten straight to Lopez, and Lopez, Driscoll foresaw, would interpret his scruples into a disguised acceptance.
He began, with coy hesitancy, to beat his scruples around the bush, which was not a bad lead.
His scruples are insufferable, and they are continually increasing; accordingly, we dread the lengths to which they may carry him.
It is my duty to pay no more attention to these scruples of yours than a nurse pays to her child's tantrums.
But this does not make thescruples less real, less religious, or less political.
I am sure--for instance--I could trace Charles's scruples about sitting in a cabinet with Trebell back to a sort of academic reverence for women generally which he possesses.
No wonder the fellow has some scruples about seeing me again.
She had long since abandoned the idea of that self-deception--with which upon starting forth she had tried to still the scruples of her conscience.
He was too well exercised in conquering the scruples of maiden modesty, to feel despair at such primary repulses.
Not to follow their scruples means: (a) that scrupulous persons should recognize their scruples for what they really are (i.
By reason of extension, some scruples are limited to interior actions, others extend to external manifestations.
Scruples may be divided in various ways, but the simplest division seems to be by virtue of object, extension and duration.
By reason of object, scruples may center on only one or, at most, a few moral activities, e.
Now the Stranger shall hear the truth of the matter: I never believed it, but I was forced by scruples of conscience to put a good face on it.
Then you're like my daughter--she, too, has no scruplesand no conscience.
Madame le Claire regarded him with a lofty scorn meant for these antiquated scruples of his; but before she could find words, the knock of the bell-boy called her attention to the door.
Again her doubts and fears and scruples rose--rose instantly in full strength.
These events, coupled with his want of scruples and known capacity for intrigue and indolence, made him an object of such distrust that the Senate, in spite of his social and political connections, barely confirmed him.
I have been brought up among people of civilisation, and I have scruples about killing any one.
But herein he found a great source of anxiety on account of the scruples with which he was annoyed.
He knew well that these scruples caused no little harm to the spiritual life, and that it was most expedient to get rid of them, yet they continued to torture him.
He obeyed, and even after he had confessed these sins, his scruples still continued to fill his soul, and he was constantly recalling minor details that he had not confessed.
On the other hand, the tears and despair of poor Miss Hyde presented themselves; and still more than that, he felt a remorse of conscience, the scruples of which began from that time to rise up against him.
They supped in the most agreeable manner possible Matta drank five or six bumpers to drown a few scruples which made him somewhat uneasy.
The perfidy of Cerise, and the high-crowned hat, were still fresh in remembrance, and enabled him to get the better of a few grains of remorse, and conquer some scruples which arose in his mind.
It is said that at one time Heiberg had held back; the well-bred old man, a little shocked by the somewhat noisy ways of the young genius, is said to have expressed to his friend Krieger some scruples at inviting him to his house.
A young man who hated the August Association and all its deeds could not fail to feel scruples about engaging in any collaboration with its founder.
As I felt scruples at taking up these gentlemen's time, he exclaimed wittily: "My dear fellow, take up their time!
Pilate, we must assume, was well acquainted with their religious scruples in this regard, and his open defiance of their prejudices was an illustration not of courage, but of weakness in administrative matters.
As impurity," says Doellinger, "formed a part of religion, people had no scruples in using the temple and its adjoining buildings for the satisfaction of their lust.
Numberless decisions of the pontiffs, decrees of the senate, and even answers of the aruspices, free you from religious scruples of this character.
Their purposes and scruples were announced to Pilate; and, in a spirit of gracious and politic condescension, he removed the difficulty by coming out to meet them.
Another cause, most pregnant with inconvenience to the public, is the practice in which we persist in letting our known criminals go about at large, on constitutional scruples against shutting the door till the steed be gone.
Hunter, having proclaimed them free, felt noscruples in making them fight for freedom.
Schiller in two apposite epigrams, entitled Gewissensskrupel (Scruples of Conscience) and Entscheidung (Decision).
For instance, that which he attributes to conscience, at the beginning of the paragraph, as its peculiar property, applies equally to all other scruples of an entirely different sort.
I commended Maria for feeling scruples which proved her to be the best of good girls, and promised to relieve her from all fear of future temptation.
Having quieted my friend's needless scruples by this perfectly sincere expression of opinion, I ventured to approach the central figure in his domestic circle, by means of a question relating to his wife.
This method of picking a quarrel is constantly resorted to by powerful States when they are bound by scruples of honour or like considerations.
Now although these scruples of his were wise and good, we ought never out of regard for what is good, to suffer an evil to run its course, since it may well happen that the evil will prevail over the good.
He was constantly at the other house; he used to walk across the fields from his own place, and he appeared to have fewer scruples than his cousins with regard to dropping in.
Mr. Wentworth was rather wide of the mark in suspecting that Clifford had begun to pay unscrupulous compliments to his brilliant cousin; for the young man had really more scruples than he received credit for in his family.
But, to guard against all scruples in your dear conscience--for I well know how ready it is to torture you--you will find herewith a will in due form bequeathing these certificates to Monsieur Savinien de Portenduere.
I had scruples as to your son's feelings; for Ursula has been much tried lately about a supposed lover.
At first Beersheba was sceptical, but when he saw the writing in real ink, his scruples vanished, and he chopped off the amount of souvenir demanded.
Should Don Symposio pass that way and communicate this information--and he was in a position to know--the moral scruples of the conscientious plotter would vanish like the baseless fabric of a beaten cur.
Why, then, should you have any scruples about wearing the Brotherhood's clothes?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scruples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
