"Guilty conscience" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Marie's true and dreadful plan—to give her life for mine! She was sure that once he had slain his victim, Hernan Pereira would not stop to make examination of the corpse. He would ride away, hounded by his guilty conscience, and meanwhile ...
— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard
... saw in him, not darkly or dimly, the sword which was being drawn by avenging Heaven to cut off his family root and branch, perhaps his own head, and break up for ever his blood-cemented kingdom. These suspicions of a guilty conscience came at length to such a pitch, that the day arrived when the innocent youth was to be strangled, so snatching violently away the instrument of vengeance from the hands of inexorable justice! But, on that very day, the Bashaw received intelligence of a threatened ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... feeling due to a guilty conscience, she asked herself, or was an implacable hatred that was biding its time, ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... Zeus. Ask your own guilty conscience, what harm. The pranks you have played me! Satyr, bull, swan, eagle, shower of gold,—I have been everything in my time; and I have you to thank for it. You never by any chance make the women in love with me; no one ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata
... sure hit the mark, whether yuh meant to or not," Pink asserted. "He was the jasper, all right. Look how he was glaring at yuh while you were telling about it. He knew he was the party, and having a guilty conscience, he naturally supposed yuh recognized him from ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
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