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Conscience in sentence

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Bonne conscience!
a good conscience!
'These people have no conscience,' thought Levin.
What was the good of having a possible act of cowardice on one's conscience?
When she perceived that the child had fled, she shouted and brandished her lean arms, while Pierron, annoyed at the disturbance, strolled quietly away with the air of a husband who can amuse himself with a good conscience, knowing that his wife also has her little amusements.
God, if he believed in Him, his conscience if he had one-- these were the only judges to whom he was answerable.
Enough!"Was it a vow of repentance that had just escaped from this man's conscience . . .
In the supineness of her conscience she even took her repugnance towards her husband for aspirations towards her lover, the burning of hate for the warmth of tenderness; but as the tempest still raged, and as passion burnt itself down to the very cinders, and no help came, no sun rose, there was night on all sides, and she was lost in the terrible cold that pierced her.
The voice of a prima donna seemed to her to be but echoes of her conscience, and this illusion that charmed her as some very thing of her own life.
Old Rouault on his way back began quietly smoking a pipe, which Homais in his innermost conscience thought not quite the thing.
'I have a matter of conscience to discuss with M. Chelan.
If I could take your sin upon my conscience, as you so generously wished that you might take Stanislas's fever!'
During the clamour of the refrain, sung in chorus: 'There,' Julien's conscience warned him, 'you have the sordid fortune which you will achieve, and you will enjoy it only in these conditions and in such company as this!
You will have to see that your conscience is on its guard against this weakness: _Undue sensibility to vain outward charms_.
The fact was that the abbe felt a scruple of conscience about loving Julien, and it was with a sort of religious terror that he was thus directly interfering with the destiny of another man.
But it is in the frank and sincere expansion of an honest man who can keep nothing on his conscience that he shines most.
M. Pirard was beyond question the most honest man in the room, but his blotched face, distorted by the pangs of conscience, made him hideous at the moment.
'Faith!' said Julien, 'the end justifies the means; if, instead of being a mere atom, I had any power, I would hang three men to save the lives of four.'His eyes expressed the fire of conscience and a contempt for the vain judgments of men; they met those of Mademoiselle de La Mole who stood close beside him, and this contempt, instead of changing into an air of gracious civility, seemed to intensify.
But what defence have you left if I choose to take an extreme case, if I am so unkind as to make Julien's father a Spanish Duke, a prisoner of war at Besancon in Napoleon's time, who, from a scruple of conscience, acknowledges him on his deathbed?'
I am bound in conscience to think that one of his avenues to success in a household is to seek to seduce the woman who has most influence there.
'I must,' he thought, 'keep him waiting a long time for the five francs which he wants as the price of his conscience.'
He coughed, then declared that on his soul and conscience the unanimous opinion of the jury was that Julien Sorel was guilty of murder, and of murder with premeditation: this verdict inferred a sentence of death; it was pronounced a moment later.
The letter sent to M. de La Mole had been written by the young priest who directed Madame de Renal's conscience, and then copied out by her.
He could not in conscience - not even George's conscience - object, though he did suggest that, perhaps, it would be better for him to stop in the boat, and get tea ready, while Harris and I towed, because getting tea was such a worrying work, and Harris and I looked tired.
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Were all employees, every one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of hours in the morning on company business?
The passage of a stranger, with an appearance of somewhat doubtful character, and mounted on an animal which, although unfurnished with any of the ordinary trappings of war, partook largely of the bold and upright carriage that distinguished his rider, gave rise to many surmises among the gazing inmates of the different habitations; and in some instances, where conscience was more than ordinarily awake, to no little alarm.
"If, sir," said the surgeon dryly, "the degrees of Edinburgh - walking your London hospitals - amputating some hundreds of limbs - operating on the human frame in every shape that is warranted by the lights of science, a clear conscience, and the commission of the Continental Congress, can make a surgeon, I am one."
With a full stomach, a stout heart, and a clear conscience, he often maintained that a man might bid defiance to the world and its vicissitudes.
The board now fairly groaned with American profusion, and Caesar, glancing his eye over the show with a most approving conscience, after readjusting every dish that had not been placed on the table with his own hands, proceeded to acquaint the mistress of the revels that his task was happily accomplished.
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