It would be inuspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious of me to disregard such praise, and thus I must. with tremiculous incumbulum thank you for your most kind contrafibularities. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But your friend will have no such compunctious visitings. ❋ Unknown (2008)
June was instantly compunctious; she ran to her aunt and kissed her. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Michael sat, compunctious, watching him tick down a long page of entries. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And from the nursery window Fleur would see him, departing at his glum and measured gait, with a compunctious relief. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She was very white, and she knew — for with her nerves thus sharpened she saw everything — that he was both uneasy and compunctious. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Feeling her own consequence, before she could speak, she had learned the art of tormenting me, and if I ever dared to resist, I received blows, laid on with no compunctious hand, or was sent to bed dinnerless, as well as supperless. ❋ Unknown (2002)
His reflections were not altogether satisfactory, and kindled a few compunctious thoughts. ❋ Warren T. Ashton (N/A)
Considered in themselves, in their style and sentiment, the little digressions, the long conversations, the carefully wrought side-scenes are so rich in a certain tender religious wisdom, yet crisp and piquant withal, and so full of living thought on the great questions of the day, that we dwell in them with enjoyment, though with a compunctious half-consciousness that they ought not to be there. ❋ Various (N/A)
Sara herself, accustomed to anticipating every need of Patrick Lovell's, would have been inclined to feel somewhat compunctious over allowing a lame man to wait upon her, yet, as she watched the eager way in which ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
He impressed this upon her so thoroughly, as they did their shopping for the costume together the next morning, that she had compunctious moments of solicitude when she said he really ought not to .... ❋ Mary Hastings Bradley (N/A)
No compunctious visitings of conscience seem to have haunted her. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Such a person, therefore, could not strike nor abuse his parents, without knowing that he was doing wrong; nor could he tantalize or injure the aged or the helpless, without conscience putting him upon his guard, as well as reproving and punishing the crime by compunctious feelings after it was committed. ❋ James Gall (N/A)
I have not had a letter yet, and that makes me somehow not anxious but compunctious; only writing to you of all I do helps to keep me in good conscience. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Besides, although, mind you, I do not consider myself in any way bound to allay your curiosity and satisfy your compunctious scruples, you should remember that all of us young parishioners of Saint Canon's -- ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The shops, as we drove to the hotel, seemed to expose nothing else for sale, but poppa said that, in spite of the local consumption, it had certainly fallen off, and, as an official representative of one of its great rivals in the west, he naturally felt a compunctious interest in the state of the industry. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
There are others who scorn such compunctious visitations, and set all laws of conscience at defiance. ❋ Various (N/A)
But forget not that nature has her "compunctious visitings," and will rise up in insurrection against you. ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)
The wicked often feel compunctious visitings in the midst of their sins, or smart under the rod of civil justice, or are tortured with natural evils. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
