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qualm
1. He felt none of the victor's joy, but he felt a certain calm satisfaction in duty done and honour avenged--mingled with a sickish qualm when he thought of Dan's gory nose
2. He believed her utterly and after getting out of the car he set the alarm and followed her toward the back door of the club without a qualm
3. His helmet was gone, his head ached abominably, he felt a qualm of nausea, and blood was clotted thickly among his black locks
4. You jilted wilted age without a qualm
5. Then the responsible man in the moment of danger and in the exercise of his judgment could close all the doors of these water-tight bulkheads by whatever clever contrivance has been invented for the purpose, without a qualm at the awful thought that he may be shutting up some of his fellow creatures in a death-trap; that he may be sacrificing the lives of men who, down there, are sticking to the posts of duty as the engine-room staffs of the Merchant Service have never failed to do
6. I descended to tell my master that the young lady's qualm of sickness was almost gone, but I judged it best for her to lie down a while
7. The slight qualm of conscience which had been excited by the intended deception was instantly appeased, and he began to collect his thoughts, in order to enact his part with suitable spirit, when he found he was about to be anticipated in his skill by an attempt to prove the power of music
8. What he had felt earlier in the day had been a mere trifling qualm
9. And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering
10. But she took heart at the thought A cold qualm of guilt assailed Scarlett at the thought of Ellen’s consternation, should of the twenty-five miles between Atlanta and Tara
11. Scarlett had no qualm of already come in and the litter bearers were working swiftly in the hot sun, transferring conscience as she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape
12. moral collapse which had sent her to Atlanta and to Rhett, the appropriation of her That he was Suellen’s fiance caused her no qualm of conscience
13. Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which well nigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze
14. I descended to tell my master that the young lady’s qualm of sickness was almost gone, but I judged it best for her to lie down a while
15. My one qualm is that it is hard to see how this poor clientele could include the marginal investor who sets the market price in any given situation
16. Why, then, this hesitancy! Once more he essayed the effort, but a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him
17. It is impossible to picture to oneself the shame and moral degradation to which the jealous man can descend without a qualm of conscience
18. Some men have but felt some little qualm of kindness towards their fellow-men, and the fact has been quite enough to persuade them that they stand alone in the van of enlightenment and that no one has such humanitarian feelings as they
19. I would kill that damnable old hag, and take all she is possessed of, without any qualm of conscience," exclaimed the student excitedly
20. There was something in the young fellow's face that spoke of more than a qualm of nervousness
21. Huldah herself felt a little qualm of fear as she opened the kitchen door to the tall figure buttoned in the big ulster
