But, gentleman and soldier as he is, none can guess his heart by the unmoved brow, the unshaken voice, and the scrupulous deference with which he pays his homage.
She did indeed pride herself on two especial qualities--utter impassibility, and scrupulous attention to details.
Mary, whose attachment to her youthful husband evinced itself by a scrupulous respect for his memory, had ordered a dirge to be performed in the Royal Chapel at Holyrood for the repose of his soul.
Bothwell, too, had been brought up in no precise or scrupulous school.
The Baptist had been a scrupulous observer of the law; his strict asceticism vied with the rigor of Pharisaic profession.
By a strong simile, the Lord stigmatized such inconsistency as comparable to one's scrupulous straining at a gnat while figuratively willing to gulp down a camel.
To prove that it could not, of course needs some not over-scrupulous manipulation of the facts.
If a fishing smack went to the Banks it knew that it ran a chance of falling in with some not over-scrupulous Nova Scotian privateer.
It is an invaluable work, written with fulness and care; on the other hand it is also a piece of special pleading by a bitter and not over-scrupulous partisan.
Though knives and forks were unknown, and each helped herself from the plantain leaf, one had not the least objection to do likewise, for the most scrupulous cleanliness is one of the many merits of these fascinating creatures.
But the love with which he was regarded by the people was as well known to others as to himself, and all chance of a demonstration in his favour had been guarded against with the most scrupulous care.
America is largely in the hands of the Irish electorate, and American politicians would not be particularly scrupulous how they purchased Irish support.
But before committing them to paper, the facts were sifted with scrupulous care, and where personal investigation was impracticable, nothing was adduced except upon evidence of weight and authority sufficient to prove anything.
It shows his scrupulous care not to admit anything as being God's Word of the divine origin of which he was not fully convinced.
Catholic teachers would be the last ones, we imagine, whom scrupulous Christians would choose for instructing them regarding the sin of idolatry and the means to avoid it.
He was a consistent, yea, a scrupulous member of his Church, regular in his daily devotions, reverencing every ordinance of the Church.
Not less romantic in their servility than their independence, and equally importunate candidates for fame or infamy, they require only to be distinguished, and are not scrupulous as to the means of distinction.
Yet though deceptive appearances might lead others to misjudge me, I could never overcome my scrupulous delicacy.
It was Richelieu's great fault to be more concerned about his object than scrupulous as to the means he employed for arriving at it.
Oliver d'Ormesson lost the stewardship of Soissonness, to which he had the titular right, but he did not allow himself to be diverted from his scrupulous integrity.
He knew well when to attack, when to retreat, and, if imperialist and Rajput accounts are to be trusted, was not over-scrupulous in his use of the white flag.
If in his travel he is scrupulous in detail, it is in the spirit of the mariner who will neither court a ship-wreck nor be denied his adventure.
Scrupulous persons must do exactly whatever their confessor advises, no matter what they themselves may think.
Scrupulous persons are those who think almost everything they do is a sin.
I will try to follow the advice they contain with the most scrupulous exactitude.
If we mean to jest, this comparison of your's would form a pretty Irony: but if we are talking in real earnest, we should pay the same scrupulous regard to truth, as if we were giving evidence upon oath.
This proposition is true, yet it contains much that is calculated to offend a scrupulous dialectician.
Correct and scrupulous as empiricism may be when it turns its face backward and looks for the seat, the criterion, and the elements of knowledge, it is altogether incoherent and self-inhibited when it looks forward.
Imagination is often more efficacious in reaching the gist and meaning of experience than intelligence can be, just because imagination is less scrupulous and more instinctive.
Dost know, friend Roderigo, that this very argument hath made me less scrupulous concerning the freight I am called on to carry, in this secret trade of ours.
When seen on his customary stand, he was avoided by all who were chary of their character, or scrupulous of appearances.
Another evil: the Prussians are not the most scrupulous people in the world about other people's property, and their investigations in the Peninsula have excited suspicions as to the object of their cupidity.
He conducted the education of his gifted daughter, therefore, with the most scrupulous care to avoid entirely all considerations of religion in any form.
We are told that the most scrupulous exactitude was required in the Scriptorium of Iona, and that Columba himself, a skilful penman, wrote out the famous Book of Kells with his own hand.
Notwithstanding the heterogeneous appearance of the crew, the galley of Trimalcyon-Reis was kept with scrupulous cleanliness.
Reine and Stephanette, released from their bonds, were respectfully deposited in the cabin of the chebec, which Erebus had arranged with the most scrupulous care.
No individual could have acted with more scrupulousand faithful regard.
