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Like Major Scruple Number One, Orlando's moral decision is not only self-defeating, but also negatively affects several other people.
Religion 2009
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Enter Major Scruple Number Two: Orlando refuses to intervene, even though, by doing so, he could support his remaining siblings.
Religion 2009
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Gargamel, too, got a friend in the form of the unscrupulous Scruple.
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Exilia, (continu'd the Queen) that this my Retirement is the Will of Heaven, and my own seeking; therefore, make no Scruple to accept of those Honours offer'd thee by his Majesty.
Exilius 2008
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Husband to another, till well assured that she is no longer living: But as to that Scruple, you make of going along with us, I beg you to dismiss all apprehensions, and be assured that you shall be very safe under our
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Husband to another, till well assured that she is no longer living: But as to that Scruple, you make of going along with us, I beg you to dismiss all apprehensions, and be assured that you shall be very safe under our
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Besides, Certainty gives a Man a good Air upon his Trial, and makes him risque another without Fear or Scruple.
The Beggar's Opera 2007
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I shall make no Scruple to violate my own rule of Criticism, by introducing on the same page with Hector and Andromache, a Story of
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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Will The Expressions were Will your judiciary Whip and hang without Scruple.
John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961
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Scruple! no, no, but -- Two thousand pounds, you say?
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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