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  • This afternoon I outwitted you, robbed and sold you for -- for what you call a scruple.

    The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • And these chaps, too, had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple.

    Heart of Darkness 1960

  • And these chaps, too, had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple.

    Heart of Darkness 1902

  • And these chaps too had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple.

    Youth And Two Other Stories 1899

  • And these chaps too had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple.

    Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1890

  • And these chaps, too, had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple.

    Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Tom was certainly alive to the advantages of the situation, and entered on his kingdom without any kind of scruple.

    Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

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