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  • Must be a bad conscience.†   (source)
  • From an unexpected corner had come an expression of romantic interest, which could not in good conscience be ignored.†   (source)
  • A kind man with a good social conscience.†   (source)
  • I don't want your brutal murder on my conscience.†   (source)
  • I quickly reviewed my conscience.†   (source)
  • As painful as the solution was going to be, he knew he could carry it out with a clean conscience.†   (source)
  • The conscience told the tears†   (source)
  • The incomprehensible egg weighed more heavily than ever on Harrys conscience that evening, and by the time he had got into bed, he had made up his mind — it was time to shelve his pride and see if Cedric's hint was worth anything.†   (source)
  • Bod thought about the reassuring things that he could say, like "there's nothing bad down there," but the tales of hair turning white and people never returning meant that he could not have said them with a clear conscience, so he said, "I'll go down.†   (source)
  • "Maybe it means you still have a conscience," Reynie said.†   (source)
  • And even though it bothered my conscience, I'd lean in and whisper answers to him, hoping that maybe I could spend lunch with him instead.†   (source)
  • He portrays himself as a preservationist with a social conscience.†   (source)
  • Her eyes tugged at my conscience, trying to pull out the secrets.†   (source)
  • Leave it to Daddy Cool to torture human kids at school all day long and never have his conscience bother him but to feel sorry for a stupid little grayish brown bird.†   (source)
  • Guilty conscience?†   (source)
  • He had a heart, she realized, and a conscience.†   (source)
  • When alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call The chief turned his head from side to side as if trying to understand what I was saying.†   (source)
  • "It'll depend on the Christian conscience of strangers," Bud jokes.†   (source)
  • If you had a clear conscience, why were you scared?†   (source)
  • I didn't want the Swedish supermodel on my conscience either.†   (source)
  • I figured it was my chance to clear my conscience once and for all.†   (source)
  • It was for herself, for her own crime which her conscience could no longer bear.†   (source)
  • Sampson jumped out of the car and left them there, glad to be able to breathe fresh air and celebrate his birthday with a clear head and a clean conscience.†   (source)
  • I thought maybe that was his conscience speaking.†   (source)
  • She would like to stand here before him with a clear conscience.†   (source)
  • But the pangs of her conscience wouldn't let her.†   (source)
  • Her mother wasn't a woman I wanted to offend or to hurt, but my conscience wouldn't let me refuse her if she wanted to learn.†   (source)
  • Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.†   (source)
  • You got a guilty conscience about something?†   (source)
  • Are you certain in your conscience, Mister, that your evidence is the truth?†   (source)
  • Am I right in following my own conscience?†   (source)
  • I know, you're right, I shouldn't burden you with my conscience.†   (source)
  • But my conscience is clear before God, says Mrs. McGrath.†   (source)
  • To have Peeta's death on my conscience for whatever is left of my life.†   (source)
  • And was his conscience not pricking him, leeching the sweetness from his victory?†   (source)
  • I would never understand why this girl made me grow a conscience.†   (source)
  • Or like having a bad conscience.†   (source)
  • And then later, at Gil'ead, how could I have left with a clear conscience?†   (source)
  • Clear Conscience†   (source)
  • I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees.†   (source)
  • But the attack on Bressia had mobilized the Hegemony toward true interstellar war as had nothing else in three centuries, and Kassad's voice was either drowned out or dismissed as the guilty conscience of the Butcher of South Bressia.†   (source)
  • They both developed a conscience, as we refer to it, with no outside guidance.†   (source)
  • "My conscience would be clear if we gave him a chance," he said.†   (source)
  • Schulz must have been seized by am attack of conscience.†   (source)
  • With its gorgeous classical buildings packed with art, its clean water and electric lights, and its overstaffed police department, the exposition was Chicago's conscience, the city it wanted to become.†   (source)
  • She faces her conscience.†   (source)
  • Guilty conscience!†   (source)
  • Of all the illegal activities I had on my conscience, this was probably the one I knew least about.†   (source)
  • My conscience was pricked, just a little.†   (source)
  • I was ashamed of my conscience, ashamed to be doing the right thing.†   (source)
  • But in her heart, she's already feeling the pangs of conscience.†   (source)
  • Yet if you look at the growth between conception and birth, which is greater than in any period between birth and death, no one can say in good conscience it isn't life.†   (source)
  • If Denise was a pint-sized commissar, nagging us to higher conscience, then Bee was a silent witness, calling the very meaning of our lives into question.†   (source)
  • Anyone could see she had a guilty conscience.†   (source)
  • Apart from it being tactically the right thing to do, this disjunction between the man and his job helped Comrade Pillai to keep his conscience clear about his own private business dealings with Chacko.†   (source)
  • If I do this and it kills them, will you be able to live with it on your conscience?†   (source)
  • People do have a political conscience of sorts here.†   (source)
  • And now we have blood-guilt on our conscience for the dreadful injustice of murdering the Jewish inhabitants.†   (source)
  • I didn't want the deaths of innocents on my conscience.†   (source)
  • For the first time in my life, I've gone out of my way to help someone in need, and my conscience is clear.†   (source)
  • But my conscience forces me to go against this decision.†   (source)
  • It doesn't sit well with my conscience.†   (source)
  • It was the great mistake of his life, as his conscience was to remind him every hour of every day until the final day of his life.†   (source)
  • That was all she meant to him anymore, a life he didn't want on his conscience.†   (source)
  • "I leave that to your own …. ah …. conscience," the Duke said.†   (source)
  • While we knew we weren't supposed to hop trains, I placated my conscience by deciding to get on only the slower trains.†   (source)
  • It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience.†   (source)
  • Still, both of these young people were culpable and must look to themselves now, examine their souls, consider this a matter of conscience.†   (source)
  • What is meant by conscience?†   (source)
  • So I told those monsters that I would never ask XXXXXXXXXX to go against what his conscience told him was right.†   (source)
  • Neither could do without or do with the other; yet the constrictions of conscience and society, morality and ethos dictated a separation.†   (source)
  • I love you as I always have and God forbid your conscience should give you any trouble.†   (source)
  • Where's your conscience?' he shouted at me, all four bars on his collar shaking.†   (source)
  • He has a guilty conscience.†   (source)
  • Cullivan could scarcely credit so detached an attitude; Perry was confused, mistaken, it was not possible for any man to be that devoid of conscience or compassion.†   (source)
  • And they haven't developed a conscience.†   (source)
  • You want to clear your conscience.†   (source)
  • A school system such as this could create an entire nation that would obey unquestionably, even to death, an ayatollah who served as the intelligence and conscience of the land.†   (source)
  • But God help me if I don't grow a conscience.†   (source)
  • I told him that I had and that I could not in good conscience serve on the SRC.†   (source)
  • It occurs to me that my conscience stopped me from killing August at the very moment someone was attempting to carry out his orders to kill me.†   (source)
  • And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like — free at last!†   (source)
  • Or was that her own conscience talking?†   (source)
  • No sound but distant coyote song, I silenced my conscience, quieted my screaming nerves and slipped away unnoticed, for the moment.†   (source)
  • These harangues must not have bothered his conscience much because that year he sent no money.†   (source)
  • Guilty conscience?†   (source)
  • I'm telling you, I can't have any more flower homicides on my conscience, I said.†   (source)
  • You gotta wonder about his conscience, huh?†   (source)
  • Anyway I dont have a bad conscience.†   (source)
  • A while ago, he had looked at her with hard, cold eyes and talked of death and destruction, and she'd had no doubt that he could kill her or any of the children without hesitation, without conscience.†   (source)
  • It is a great relief to my conscience that you are not drowned, Gen. He patted my shoulder awkwardly.†   (source)
  • His conscience was still.†   (source)
  • Sunitha's first employee was Akbar, a former pimp who had developed a conscience.†   (source)
  • It's my conscience talking.†   (source)
  • Sick or a professional without a conscience.†   (source)
  • But with CAI under serious financial strain, Mortenson says he couldn't, in good conscience, have accepted more, even if the board had offered him a raise.†   (source)
  • So it was with a less heavy conscience that I pushed myself through the (small) window, trying to be stealthy, and pretty much succeeding until I kicked the back of the house on my dismount, leaving a scuff mark by the electric meter.†   (source)
  • However, my conscience still can't come up with a good enough argument to convince me to switch classes.†   (source)
  • To this rhetorical question, his conscience answered with a cold shoulder.†   (source)
  • Anyone would have thought you had a guilty conscience.†   (source)
  • There were a few politicians sitting up late into the night, weighing conscience against expedience.†   (source)
  • She even had a conscience.†   (source)
  • And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret.†   (source)
  • "This is to assuage our conscience, darling," she would explain to Blanca.†   (source)
  • He ate with a guilty conscience.†   (source)
  • That I had composed the letter that had ruined Snow Flower's reputation raked across my conscience, so I hushed this talk whenever I heard it.†   (source)
  • The convocation speaker is Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor, scholar, poet, philosopher, and all-around conscience for hire.†   (source)
  • My conscience began to be busy.†   (source)
  • He murdered Narciso because he ambushed him in cold blood, but he will not find me so easy to ambush— He is like an old wolf who drags around the ground where he has made his kill, his conscience will not let him rest.†   (source)
  • Her guilty conscience was as vague as original sin.†   (source)
  • Ghosh's words pricked Hema's conscience.†   (source)
  • And we all have that on our conscience.†   (source)
  • Now I was tempted to tell my father that Jack Rose was probably using his money to salve a bad conscience.†   (source)
  • Use your conscience.†   (source)
  • It was she who eased his conscience, convincing him that it would hurt her more if he missed this amazing opportunity.†   (source)
  • I wasn't either, when I said my conscience should be.†   (source)
  • Why waste time creating a conscience for something that doesn't exist?†   (source)
  • Already he was being compared to Einstein and to Bohr as a scientist with a conscience,, an overview, an appreciation of the significance: of events.†   (source)
  • The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything.†   (source)
  • Well, it's how your ancestors behave, said her conscience.†   (source)
  • To General Burgoyne he had written, "I would abandon the contest were I not most intimately convinced in my own conscience that our cause is just and important."†   (source)
  • An attack of conscience had her walking to him.†   (source)
  • It might be that he was just a flawed man, a man without conscience, who let his wife and children suffer and just didn't care.†   (source)
  • He has no conscience-†   (source)
  • With no pang of conscience he slit open the envelopes.†   (source)
  • Parson Stanley had told us then that he could not in conscience accept the order to use the Book of Common Prayer, and that he was but one of hundreds of priests who were resigning his pulpit on that day.†   (source)
  • Now, as a parent, my conscience could no longer let me turn away.†   (source)
  • Ignoring the question, Joe said, "If something's on your mind—or on your conscience—take time to think about it.†   (source)
  • The storm did accomplish without conscience what we had been too fainthearted to do.†   (source)
  • It will be for you to clean it from your conscience; to go down on your knees and pray — pray that your sin of intention, as well as your other sins, may be forgiven you.†   (source)
  • The Demon's offer was an immense burden upon a mind and conscience already laden to capacity.†   (source)
  • He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then.†   (source)
  • They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to the people on the ground.†   (source)
  • My conscience is clear.†   (source)
  • A man with a bad conscience, and stubborn enough to lug something this heavy all the way from Texas, he ain't a-go'n lug it back home.†   (source)
  • The power of evil burned through the conscience of the regiment, and it was the same as the power of love and grief.†   (source)
  • He is a man who knows history is always present, is the last hour of his friend Lakdasa blacking out in the blue sea at Mount Lavinia where the tourists go to sunbathe, is the burned down wall that held those charcoal drawings whose passionate conscience should have been cut into rock.†   (source)
  • Grabeau, my conscience, my very good friend.†   (source)
  • All this is to say that I believe in conscience, not as something implanted by divine act, but as something learned from infancy, from the tradition and society which has bred us.†   (source)
  • "You'll be helping exercise the horses, so you can consider it a job if it eases your conscience."†   (source)
  • Maybe a writer of conscience.†   (source)
  • If that's so, how can we, in good conscience, chase them down?†   (source)
  • She lay on the floor of the cabin, motionless, conscience-stricken, filled with horror.†   (source)
  • Every man must answer these questions, according to his conscience and understanding.†   (source)
  • But apparently that action preyed on King's conscience.†   (source)
  • I'll place no bonds on yer will, but I'll have yer oath, for me own good conscience, that ye'll never raise this weapon against the people o' Ten-Tbwns!†   (source)
  • Your duty is to determine the truth, and after you've done that, to vote your conscience.†   (source)
  • If you're good to them, you might appeal to their conscience—if they have any conscience.†   (source)
  • They don't have a conscience just as much as they don't have a life.†   (source)
  • I told conscience to go to sleep.†   (source)
  • And John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience."†   (source)
  • I have a guilty conscience.†   (source)
  • If so, I'm scared stiff that if ever you gain any weight you'll be as victimized as the next young actor into contributing to the reliable Hollywood amalgam of prizefighter and mystic, gunman and underprivileged child, cowhand and Man's Conscience, and the rest.†   (source)
  • I'd do that as a matter of conscience anyway," I said.†   (source)
  • For the last few weeks his conscience had been pricking him.†   (source)
  • He was a disk jockey who worked further along the Peninsula and suffered regular crises of conscience about his profession.†   (source)
  • I have to act according to my conscience.†   (source)
  • But in addition it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it.†   (source)
  • HORNBECK I charge you with contempt of conscience!†   (source)
  • All the others were there with him waiting, and Lucy's conscience smote her when she saw their anxious faces and realized how long she had forgotten them.†   (source)
  • We must all follow the dictates of our conscience, don't you agree?"†   (source)
  • Rather an accidental social conscience and some right mistake-making, I fear.†   (source)
  • I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did.†   (source)
  • If, however, there is no reasonable doubt—then you must, in good conscience, find the accused guilty.†   (source)
  • Don't tell me Smiley's conscience goes that far.†   (source)
  • No one had a clear conscience.†   (source)
  • That's one more person on my conscience.†   (source)
  • So we ate with easy conscience, for I would not like to have taken from the store of a family who were for all their kindness only strangers to us, and who moreover had enough mouths of their own to feed.†   (source)
  • The less you say about Edmund's sickness, the better for your conscience!†   (source)
  • With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.†   (source)
  • His actions and protests, his courage to risk safety, and even to risk his life, have awakened the conscience of this nation.†   (source)
  • Please take note our conscience is dear.†   (source)
  • That's because you're not a man of conscience.†   (source)
  • His conscience had to punish him.†   (source)
  • The shoemaker's conscience did not trouble him; he was satisfied with the Saturday date.†   (source)
  • Why should he have a conscience when no one else did?†   (source)
  • I suppose it was some sailor, down at the harbour, they have no more conscience than a flea.†   (source)
  • I do hope your conscience plagues you because you may have ruined things for many others.†   (source)
  • There was also a question of conscience.†   (source)
  • I assuaged my conscience with empty words.†   (source)
  • At least your conscience would be clean.†   (source)
  • It eased my conscience that she was safe, far from all this killing.†   (source)
  • "Do you want his beating on your conscience?" she continued.†   (source)
  • Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah,' said Harry; this was perfectly true, although his conscience squirmed slightly all the same.†   (source)
  • Commander, we cannot in good conscience do nothing about the missing cardinals!†   (source)
  • He's a grown-up now, with much worse things on his conscience.†   (source)
  • 'If you want that on your conscience, Hermione…'†   (source)
  • He kept me around, like a bad conscience.†   (source)
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