But in marked contrast to this, no such scrupulousness was demanded of visitors to the United States.
For they too can most nearly appreciate the distinguished beauties of his work--his wide and intimate knowledge of world literature, the opulence of his style, the firmness of his structure, the scrupulousness of his detail.
For many long years Redworth had in his memory, for a comment on procrastination and excessive scrupulousness in his calculating faculty, the blue back of a coach.
He had great qualities, and his excess of scrupulousnesswas most pitiable.
Without speaking of the frenzy of his penances, what scrupulousness of devotion and narrowness of piety was his!
It was certainly an excessive penance which was imposed upon him, not from a desire of persecution or vengeance, but from religious scrupulousness and mimicry of Catholic forms.
There is accidie and scrupulousness and contempt of others, and a host of snares that you know little of now.
But it was all owing to my foolish scrupulousness that I did not carry you off with me when I was leaving town.
When Rosa Bonheur learned that this reduced replica was to find a place in the National Gallery, she exhibited a scrupulousness that well illustrates her honesty and disinterestedness.
From this period disputed elections have been tried with the same scrupulousness and solemnity as any other titles: while previous to it, as Dr.
A celebrated divine once said of him that he "had a very troublesome conscience," referring to its extreme tenderness, and his nervous scrupulousness lest he should wear the remotest appearance of evil.
Turner's biographer, with a scrupulousness that looks a little like timidity, has abstained steadily from all demur to the dicta of Mr. Ruskin.
In the last century this designation was conferred and employed by society with more scrupulousness than obtains at present.
Mrs. Greyson had a deep repugnance to falsehood, and Arthur Fenton had often good-humoredly jeered at what he called her Puritanic scrupulousness in this respect.
Pitt has been sharply censured for his excessive scrupulousness in resigning at so serious a crisis.
In truth, Pitt's excessive scrupulousness at the time of his resignation had enclosed himself and his country in a vicious circle from which the only means of escape was war.
I fear again that the same over-scrupulousness will appear in this affair.
Nothing was comprised in this formula which we employed, except what I perceived it would be scrupulousness not to concede to others.
On the score of delicacy, or anyscrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable.
