Sentence example with the word 'compunctious'

compunctious

Last update: August 10, 2016


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This disgusting method of alleviating the "compunctious visitings of Nature" would seem to confirm the suggestion of a writer in the _Russkiya Wjedomosti_ (Russian News, 1888, No.)   [Please select]

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Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him.   [Please select]

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Mother and daughter adored each other and revered their son and brother; and Archer loved them with a tenderness made compunctious and uncritical by the sense of their exaggerated admiration, and by his secret satisfaction in it.   [verb]

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This, as poetry, is good, but it does not precisely fit my case; my "compunctious visitings" being distinctly different in origin and character from the poet's.'   [noun]

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The "compunctious visitings" would continue still.   [noun]

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But I believe neither he nor her father had one compunctious misgiving as to their having profaned the holiness of marriage by such an union.   [Please select]

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