scruples

• Placing the question before the Crown officers in this simple light, their scruples were at once removed, and they cordially acceded to my proposition to recognize our ministerial character. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• Alice looked doubtfully at the crazy little craft and hung back--the thought of husband and children at home is always a sedative--but her eager sister overcame her scruples, and they were soon fairly out from shore in deep water. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• If I had any Jewish scruples, they were lagging away behind my interest in school affairs. —  The Promised Land
• Cromwell writes to him to remove his scruples, and makes a characteristic allusion to this circumstance--_improves it, as we should say We must apprise the reader, however, that it would be dangerous to form any opinion upon the religious sincerity or insincerity of Cromwell, upon extracts from his letters and speeches, or even upon any single letter or speech. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
• Thanks to Murray's scruples, and the "translation" of MSS. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry

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