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Michael sat, compunctious, watching him tick down a long page of entries.

And from the nursery window Fleur would see him, departing at his glum and measured gait, with a compunctious relief.

Then I, as if compunctious for my fault, Said: "Now, then, you will tell that fallen one, That still his son is with the living joined.

Then I thought of the MANHATTAN, towards whom I have guilty and compunctious feelings.

Make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between The effect and it!

Coleman once referred to 'heartbreaking' letters which he heard had been written by practitioners who had gone unprepared into country practice, but he said 'I have no compunctious visitings in the matter'.

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.

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.

There is a strong suggestion that Stransom is ready to forgive Hague; he feels how "the descent of Mary Antrim opened his spirit with a great compunctious throb for the descent of Acton Hague."

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.

Let moguls continue to take meetings; let confrontationalists visit imprecations on one another; let trustees descend on colleges with stern visitations, and let Lady Macbeth fear "no compunctious visitings of nature," but remember - today's successful politicians sailed smoothly into the era of sweet, nonpartisan visits with.