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• Very belike she'd take him along; and he'd be aisy landed home, once he'd got that far And on the morrow Con did actually set off with Mrs. Duff, feeling half appeased and half compunctious, as people do when they get what they have clamoured for; sorry a little to lose sight of Bran, staring open-mouthed after him down the lane; and relieved through all by a vague sense that he was going whither his heart-strings pulled. —  Strangers at Lisconnel
• It is compromise that has suffered her to be in question at all, and that has condemned the freedom of the circle to be self- conscious, compunctious, on the whole much more timid than brave--the consequent muddle, if the term be not too gross, representing meanwhile a great inconvenience for life, but, as I found myself feeling, an immense promise, a much greater one than on the "foreign" showing, for the painted picture of life. —  The Awkward Age
• And curious were her feelings--light-hearted, compunctious, as of one who escapes yet knows she will soon be seeking to return. —  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
• Glossin, partly from some compunctious visitings, and partly out of his cautious resolution to suffer Sir Robert —  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02
• That no compunctious visitings of nature —  Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

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