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Sentences starting with conscience

Conscience had not smitten him hard, because beauty, as he had known it, though often fair and of good report, had bloomed for others before he came. [11]
Conscience thundered that she should be grateful on her knees for this baptism of fire; that through misfortune, sacrifice, and suffering her soul might be fused pure gold. [13]
Conscience won't be reasoned with. [6]
Conscience was graven on the broad forehead. [9]
Conscience thundered at her that there was left her religion. [13]
Conscience itself requires a conscience, or nothing can be more unscrupulous. [6]

Sentences ending with conscience

I disagree with your beliefs, but I do not think that your pursuit of them has not been sincere, and justified by your conscience. [9]
I do not wish to take it on my conscience. [2]
However, even inquests went out of vogue at last, and ceased to torture Tom's conscience. [5]
Is there any way of satisfying that malignant invention which is called a conscience? [5]
The Emperor Charles was sending the old man far away that the happiness of her love might be undisturbed and unclouded, and the consciousness weighed heavily upon her by no means unduly sensitive conscience. [10]
His chief possession was a priceless one--a conscience. [9]
That's to square up Ferguson's conscience. [9]
Do you know Tom Smith's conscience? [5]
Hawkins went straight to the telegraph office and disburdened his conscience. [5]
What, then, is this thing we call conscience? [4]

Short sentences using conscience

Your conscience has warned you. [9]
Doesn't your conscience smart? [9]
Do you know Robinson's conscience? [5]
That's because she's no conscience. [4]
So he soothed his conscience. [11]
Where was her conscience? [11]
You startled the conscience. [11]
My conscience is clear. [11]
Her conscience was clear. [11]
Conscience, my lord-conscience! [10]

Sentences containing conscience two or more times

For conscience sake you ask that, and I for conscience sake say I will not, Monsieur. [11]
Tickets and fares were high, but I traveled for nothing by pretending to be the conscience of an editor, and got in for half-price by representing myself to be the conscience of a clergyman. [5]
If conscience ever reminded her of this, conscience was quieted by the suggestion that now she was in a position to be more liberal than she ever expected to be; that is, to give everything except the essential thing--herself. [4]
Mr. Atterbury and others seem actually to resent my identification of our Lord's Spirit with the social conscience as well as the individual conscience of our time. [9]
Conscience--the old kind of conscience,--and nothing inherent in the deeds themselves, made the tragedy; conscience was superstition, the fear of the wrath of the gods: conscience was the wrath of the gods. [9]
You had a large conscience once; if you've a small conscience now I reckon there are reasons for it. [5]
Think not that I would allure you from the path in which your conscience leads you; for you know I respect the conscience of others, as I would die for my own. [5]
In finding love he had found conscience, and in finding conscience he was on his way to another great discovery. [11]
Every word spoken by this stranger seemed to leave a blister on Tracy's conscience, and by the time the speech was finished he felt that he was all conscience and one blister. [5]
If she had argued the matter with her conscience, she would have told her conscience that she would carry out this new plan in her own way and time. [4]

More example sentences with the word conscience in them

For conscience sake, you would crush out evil. [11]
A while ago you said that man's conscience is not a born judge of morals and conduct, but has to be taught and trained. [5]
And yet when you come to think, there is no real difference between a conscience and an anvil--I mean for comfort. [5]
That Thackeray was wrong in his way of treating Fielding's character and vices, my conscience told me. [14]
Then his conscience would be clear once more. [11]
If my conscience would allow me to make a change, but that is out of the question. [5]
This constitutional question will probably never be better settled than it is, until it shall pass under judicial consideration; but I do think no man who is clear on the questions of expediency need feel his conscience much pricked upon this. [7]
Now tell me, why is it that a conscience can't haul a man over the coals once, for an offense, and then let him alone? [5]
Mr. Paul Pardriff, who had a guilty conscience about the clipping, and vividly bearing in mind Mr. Blodgett's mishap, alone avoided young Mr. Vane; and escaped through the type-setting room and down an outside stairway in the rear when that gentleman called. [9]
Yet all the while Chang's moral principles were unsullied, his conscience clear; and so all just men were forced to confess that he was not morally, but only physically, drunk. [5]
The terror with which she started up at his call bore no favourable testimony to her good conscience, but she had already recovered her bold unconcern when he imperiously demanded to know what had become of lame Kuni. [10]
A dance, for which her partner came to seek her, put an end to her discourse with her future directeur de conscience, but the next evening Monsieur de Jobert came to see Helene when she was alone, and after that often came again. [2]
Facile as she was, in all her successful life she had never acted upon impulse, but from a conscience keenly alive to what was just to herself. [4]
His moral nature was thoroughly aroused his conscience was stirred to the quick. [7]
But when it was out, the weight gone, and my conscience rising to the surface, I glanced at her face to see the result. [5]
Yes, his conscience was comfortable once more. [5]
But my conscience was clear before Heaven. [11]
Seitz Siebenburg's conscience was also burdened with something quite different. [10]
Then his duty was accomplished and his conscience free. [5]
For Charles Fox vows that conscience makes cowards of the best of us. [9]
I tell you"--her voice rose again, it seemed to catch the note of freedom and strength of the storm without-- "I tell you, I will still live as my heart and conscience prompt me. [11]
Thus, to sum up, he bought himself free of a sharp pain in his heart, he bought himself free of the tortures of a waiting conscience, he bought a whole night's sleep--all for twenty-five cents! [5]
The answers sorely tried Mr. Satterlee's conscience, albeit he was not a man of the world. [9]
It is a town of wide avenues and noble distances, and is comely and alluring, and full of suggestions of comfort and leisure, and of the serenity which a good conscience buttressed by a sufficient bank account gives. [5]
Was it a tortured conscience that drove him hither and thither, or was he as innocent as she was, and was it longing, love, and anxiety that bereft him of sleep? [10]
Still Philip's conscience told him that it was his plain duty to carry the matter into the courts, even with the certainty of defeat. [5]
I only stand to this: I have noticed my conscience for many years, and I know it is more trouble and bother to me than anything else I started with. [5]
Her impulse was to tell the truth, and so for ever have her conscience clear, for there would never be any more need for secrecy. [11]
He was moved to tears to see that I, a virtuous person only a year before, after immersion for one year--during one year in the New York morals--had no more conscience than a millionaire. [5]
My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me--it ain't too late yet--I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell. [5]
For those appealing to me on conscientious grounds, I have done, and shall do, the best I could and can, in my own conscience, under my oath to the law. [7]
I was determined to fulfil myself; and in doing so to take no instructions except those of my own conscience, impulse, and conviction. [11]
How was he to explain that these degrees had been so gradual that his conscience had had but a passing wrench here and there? [9]
I don't pretend to be a paragon of virtue, but I have a kind of a conscience which tells me when I am doing wrong, if I listen to it. [9]
At that very time, poor thing, I was girding up my conscience to make him move on again! [5]
At the same time my conscience will not allow me to--. [5]
I took no thought of the time, until suddenly my conscience told me I had neglected Patty. [9]
As soon as they were out of the house, she applied a point of conscience to him. [8]
In all conscience they have had time enough, and opportunity enough to know what our intentions are. [9]
Certainly allegiance to these is well; but as certainly a man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor--the party or the country come second to that, and never first. [5]
Troubled in conscience thereby, yet I did marry the twain gladly, for I think a worthier maid never lived than this same Mistress Guida Landresse de Landresse, of the ancient family of the de Mauprats. [11]
He must teach them to silence their conscience and the voice of Roman rectitude; he must take on himself the whole responsibility of this deed, at which the timid quaked. [10]
It has melted the world's conscience in its crucible, and cast it in a new mould, with features less like those of Moloch and more like those of humanity. [6]
Nothing in all the world could persuade me to have a conscience again. [5]
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. [5]
He could endure the three-mile walk in the storm, but he could not endure the tortures his conscience would suffer if he turned his back and left that poor old creature to perish. [5]
That is about the style of conscience I am pining for. [5]
He felt now the smarting anger, the outraged vanity of the wrong-doer who, having argued down his own conscience, and believing he has blinded others as himself, suddenly finds that himself and his motives are naked before the world. [11]
If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. [5]
The idea of the play interested Howells, but he had twinges of conscience in the matter of using Orion as material. [5]
Does it take the place of duty, of conscience? [4]
The conscience of the North was slow to rise against it, though bitter controversies from time to time took place. [7]
The inventor of the language probably got what he knew about a conscience from hearsay. [5]
But whatever renders the imagination more vivid and strengthens the habit of recalling and comparing past impressions, will make the conscience more sensitive, and may even somewhat compensate for weak social affections and sympathies. [1]
But to pluck the flowers and fruit which the Lord caused to grow and ripen for every one was a different thing, and had never troubled her conscience. [10]
He said: "With the divine assistance of our Lord we require you to expedite these proceedings for the welfare of your conscience. [5]
He was following the dictates of both heart and conscience in his endeavor to rescue his guest from the law; and true zeal is invariably contagious. [9]
March wore through the day gloomily, but he had it on his conscience not to show any resentment toward Watkins, whom he suspected of wishing to supplant him, and even of working to do so. [8]
Do you know the conscience of that publisher who once stole some sketches of mine for a 'series' of his, and then left me to pay the law expenses I had to incur in order to choke him off? [5]
The fact is that the toleration of men who secure wealth by well known dishonest and sharp practices is a chief cause of the demoralization of the public conscience. [4]
I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way. [5]
And not for that day and hour alone were the mind and conscience darkened of this man on whom the responsibility for what was happening lay more than on all the others who took part in it. [2]
Though she inherited that conscience, I have often thought she might have succeeded in casting it off--or at least some of it--had it not been for the fact that in spite of herself she worshipped its incarnation in the shape of my father. [9]
The legend goes that after the Crucifixion his conscience troubled him, and he fled from Jerusalem and wandered about the earth, weary of life and a prey to tortures of the mind. [5]
My own conscience tells me that it is wrong to deprive Bob of his inheritance, and to separate him from his father, whatever his father--may be. [9]
Your conscience will tell you a hundred times over what I need not say. [10]
But I could tell the difference between thet first natural twinge of conscience an' the later look of some secret thing. [13]
These reasonings have sufficed, in a measure, to mend the rent in my conscience which I made by traveling to Baden-Baden that Sunday. [5]
The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling. [5]
My mind is stored full of unworthy conduct toward Orion and towards you all, and an accusing conscience gives me peace only in excitement and restless moving from place to place. [5]
Temperament, Conscience, Susceptibility, Spiritual Appetite, are, in fact, the same thing. [5]
Your conscience, the spirit, tortures you to-day, but you have not had enough torture, you still think to escape easily, to keep the sympathy of a world which despises you. [9]
To draw a somewhat far-fetched parallel, a Captain Kidd or a Caesar Borgia with a conscience would never have been heard of. [9]
Jack was like some other men who lose heart not when they are doing a doubtful thing, but when they have to face the consequences --cases of misplaced conscience. [4]
Twichell went to sleep, but then he had his conscience loaded and it was easy for him to get to sleep. [5]
Among a hundred, sixty would bear the Spanish yoke, even do violence to conscience, if only their liberties and rights were guaranteed. [10]
It was half-past six when I awoke and went to the window, relieved to find that the sun had scattered my morbid fancies with the darkness; and I speculated, as I dressed, whether the thing called conscience were not, after all, a matter of nerves. [9]
But since the sin had been committed only in thought, the kindly guardian of her conscience was quickly disposed to grant her absolution if, as a penance, she would repeat a goodly number of paternosters and undertake a pilgrimage. [10]
All conscience and sensibility, I should say,--a cruel worker,--no kind of regard for herself, seems as fragile and supple as a young willow-shoot, but try her and you find she has the spring in her of a steel cross-bow. [6]
Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment--originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit. [1]
His conscience never seemed to interfere with his slumbers. [4]
I want to say that my conscience has not been clear since, as a member of the prudential committee, I gave my consent to the dismissal of Miss Wetherell. [9]
She made him satisfied with himself, and she didn't disturb his conscience. [4]
But he had said, in a rash moment, that he would wear those clothes till the owner or the owner's friends caught sight of them and asked for that money, and his conscience would not let him retire from that engagement now. [5]
I have already said that no one who is satisfied of the expediency of making improvements needs be much uneasy in his conscience about its constitutionality. [7]
The public conscience, said Mr. Gregory, was being aroused. [9]
One officer told Rostov that he had seen someone from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostov rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. [2]
If I am right, he came here to appeal to your niece's conscience. [10]
Who has the right to dictate to my conscience, and where did he get that right? [5]
And the natural result has fallen to me likewise--for a guilty conscience has harassed me ever since, and I have not had one short quarter of an hour of peace to this moment. [5]
He will consequently resolve more or less firmly to act differently for the future; and this is conscience; for conscience looks backwards, and serves as a guide for the future. [1]
Surely, he should remain his own master, and write nothing except what his own conscience approved. [4]
But this very reflection made me so lighthearted that my Conscience could hardly keep his seat, but was like to float aloft toward the ceiling like a toy balloon. [5]
The news had reached her just before this, the Emperor's, arrival, had made her happy, and, in spite of her evil conscience, had put her in a very cheerful mood. [10]
You did not prove him one, but you, for conscience sake, are trying to remove him, by fixing on him a crime of which he may, with slight show of reason, be suspected. [11]
Nor is it probable that the primitive conscience would reproach a man for injuring his enemy; rather it would reproach him, if he had not revenged himself. [1]
Of course I prefer myself to all others; yet it is neither in my heart nor my conscience to say I am any better man than Mr. Williams. [7]
If it were possible to generalize in this way, we might say that Carmen had neither conscience nor soul, simply very clever reason. [4]
An unusual quiet possessed the village, although it was ordinarily quiet enough, in all conscience. [5]
There was a pestilent heresy about, concerning the satisfaction to be derived from a good conscience, as if, anybody ever did anything which was not to be hated, loathed, despised, and condemned. [6]

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