"Compunction" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... told me last night," said King, drawing on imagination without any compunction at all, "that the fight in the Khyber was because ...
— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy
... it cannot be written that Bowen felt some compunction at what he was doing. We like to think that, when a man deliberately commits a crime, he should hesitate and pay enough deference to the proprieties as to feel at least a temporary regret, even if he goes on with his crime afterward. Bowen's ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr
... compunction in destroying scores of natives, and, strange to say, the most inhuman atrocities were committed by blacks, who were employed to act as troopers. On one occasion, after the murder of a white man by two blacks, a band ...
— History of Australia and New Zealand - From 1606 to 1890 • Alexander Sutherland
... pray, indeed, poor man! and I trust his prayers are heard with mercy at the throne of grace," said his companion, in his earnestness disregarding the sneering tone of his companion. "He is full of compunction, and admits his guilt." ...
— The Evil Guest • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... strangle herself by the weight of her own body at Caesar's first step towards her. So desperate was the resolution depicted on Meroe's face that the Roman general for an instant remained motionless. Then, urged either by compunction for his violence; or by the certainty that, if he attempted force, he would have but a corpse in his possession; or, as the unscrupulous libertine later pretended, by a generous impulse that had ...
— The Brass Bell - or, The Chariot of Death • Eugene Sue
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