| 单词 | conscienceless |
| 例句 | He sued Stanford for injury to his reputation, but suing one of the richest men in the country and one of California's most conscienceless double-crossers was a losing game. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Everything the XL and the Tar Sands represented — the wholesale destruction of the earth, the conscienceless unregulated capitalism, the mind-boggling shortsightedness — was nothing new to me. My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline 2013-01-20T12:45:00Z In other words, perhaps the incoming president of the United States is a great big liar, a conscienceless opportunist and an unprincipled, amoral, convictionless fraud. A three-pronged plan to make peace with a Trump presidency 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Others might regard him as a conscienceless, borderline psychopath, and the riveting central performance by Rhys Ifans, who plays Marks as a charming, raffish boyo from the Welsh valleys, doesn't wholly preclude such an interpretation. Mr Nice ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z He likes being provocative but he's not conscienceless. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Mostly, he is in real estate — a conscienceless mortgage-holder and landlord who cackles with joy at evicting the elderly, indigent and disabled from his properties. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Who’s a bigger baddie: Snidely Whiplash or President Trump? 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z He is one of those phenomena that rise regularly in history to confound us with the possibility—and black comedy—of potent evil: conscienceless, cruel and pathologically dishonest. Why Trump Is Different—and Must Be Repelled 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Our system is not just systemically racist but more generally inhumane and conscienceless. Former Clintonite David Rothkopf on how Biden and the Democrats can redeem themselves 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Our economy is unbalanced because conscious choices, in the aggregate, amount to a conscienceless capitalism. Opinion | Are You Willing to Give Up Your Privilege? 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Each of those followed a period of gambling and irrational market exuberance built on conscienceless exploitation. Opinion | Trump, Chieftain of Spite 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Koen, who starts the series as a selfish, conscienceless exploiter, grows into his powers and his responsibilities. Cleverman’s racial daring gives it an edge most superhero stories can’t match 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z But three lies says you’re dealing with a liar, and deceit is the linchpin of conscienceless behavior. 5 Ways to Deal With a Psychopath 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “You can’t negotiate with a conscienceless political leadership that is fixated on winning medals for its own political reasons.” Dozens of athletes face ban from Rio Olympics in IOC doping crackdown 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Certainly, mercy, forgiveness, and redemption are core Christian beliefs that extend to the most violent and conscienceless members of society. Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z “The ruling elite seems conscienceless enough to be exploiting the crisis, in symbols and in substance.” 20 Killed as Islamic Extremists Rampage in Nigeria 2014-04-16T14:39:14Z This is the conscienceless inner sanctum of the Chianti-swilling unworried unwell—the preserve of some of the most sinister neurochemistry in the business. Wisdom from Psychopaths? 2013-01-04T13:15:05.423Z Now he himself was at the mercy and in the clutches of his conscienceless confederates. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z This book is one of the most lying and conscienceless of its kind. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Then, too, there will be less inducement and less opportunity for incompetent and conscienceless men to disgrace the art of surgery. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z He is the source of all evil and utterly without conscience; he avows his villany to the audience and he works by crafty intrigue with the aid of an equally conscienceless accomplice. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Nor is this philosophy of force either as conscienceless, as brutal, or as ruthless as its common statement would make it appear. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Do you really believe that a handful of conscienceless egoists and corruptionists could have succeeded in setting free all these evil spirits, if the millions of followers did not share in the guilt? A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z The tool of the principal is valuable as he is conscienceless. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z While there is being done enough poor surgery that is honest and well intended, there is much being done that is useless, conscienceless, and done for purely commercial ends. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z Well, it will do to cover some other poor devil's head," murmured that tired Jeffries, "Get it over, and send that conscienceless young scamp to hell with your blood on his head. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z I am legate over Alexandria, and a conscienceless pagan, wherefore thou hast not offended my gods nor done aught to deserve my disfavor. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z And you know that when he throws her over—brutally, heartlessly, without conscience—you'll want a man who'll be just as brutal and heartless and conscienceless for you! The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z To my mind she is a conscienceless, hybrid creature. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z She had known of such conscienceless warfare in political life—acts of "character assassins" which knew neither pity nor honourable scruple. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z If Peary is not the most conscienceless of self-exploiters in all history, caught in the act of stealing honor by forcing dishonor, let him come forward and explain the Mt. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z It was gall to the conscienceless junior to be thus baldly snubbed. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z A conscienceless mechanism as soulless as cold steel. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z She made public sport of whomever she pleased, whenever it pleased her to do so, with a conscienceless air of good humor that rendered her a dangerous foe. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Dan, like many another conscienceless scoundrel, slept soundly after his evil work. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z You certainly have made a tangle of things, you heart-wrecker, you conscienceless deceiver! The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z He is no radical unbeliever, no natural mate for the devil, conscienceless and heathen, like the typical villain of the Renaissance. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z If physical coercion were unlawful, a conscienceless nation would take advantage of this at the expense of other nations, and thus a premium would be set on iniquity. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z This great political monograph is a calm analysis of the various methods whereby an ambitious conscienceless man may rise to sovereign power. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Thank God that there were some sensitive consciences in an almost conscienceless age! Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z I will make six bloody sunsets for you," he said, "with which you will deal a blow to all your competitors in a body, especially that extremely conscienceless lady who perpetrates the most impertinent pranks. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z "The mystery of the whole affair is so clear that no one will be able to say whether this valiant and pious Christian ought to be hanged, or this conscienceless reprobate ought to be canonized!" Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z On the 1st of December, 1892, a conscienceless and corrupt oligarchy overturned the republican form of government in Alabama, and installed as the de facto governor, a man who was not elected to the office. Politics of Alabama He knew beforehand that it must have been some creature like this; some degraded, conscienceless, cast-off devil. The Man from Jericho I realised that here was an excuse, hatched up by that conscienceless young Celt, to return shortly. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune The unhappy State had fallen into the hands of double-faced, conscienceless whites, who used the newly enfranchised blacks as tools for their evil purposes. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches But for the intervention of outside assistance doubtless Billings and I might have had our throats cut by the conscienceless old geezer. The Haunted Pajamas But all this is inconsistent with Dorian Gray's cool, calculating, conscienceless character, evolved logically enough by Mr Wilde's "New Hedonism." Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" I intend to paint a woman who would sell her soul for pleasure—a conscienceless, fascinating egotist—a corrupt charmer—saved by a certain na�vet�. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece That conscienceless Celt would make a banking-account of her—nothing else. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune What would such conscienceless men do to her if they found at the last moment she was responsible for their hopeless predicament? The Gray Mask It was that conscienceless, ambitious, treacherous Stoutenburg! at most her brother was blindly acquiescent in this infamy. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Dorian Gray has not got a cool, calculating, conscienceless character at all. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" A conscienceless old prater of the soap and salve school, with not as much idea of drawing or value as a two-year Julianite. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Or were the writers of modern fiction right when they depicted the men of to-day as fortune-hunters, egotistical coxcombs, conscienceless libertines, deliberate destroyers of women's virtue? By Right of Conquest A Novel They went in regular gangs, captained and employed by a few conscienceless old harpies, who took the wages of their infamy and paid them with blows and curses if they fell short of their greed. The Children of the Poor So she picked up Rosie's abandoned responsibility, and turned to survey that conscienceless Salome. Little Aliens In this day it seems absurd to say such things," he added; "but this Schwartzmann is a throw-back—a conscienceless scoundrel. Brood of the Dark Moon The depraved Messalina was contemporary with the philosophic Seneca; the conscienceless Agrippina the Younger was a student of letters and an author. Roman Women I stood aghast at what seemed the consummate acting of a heartless and conscienceless woman, and yet on the instant I saw that there was no acting there. Eleven Possible Cases She is sold as a slave to the merchants, Whose itinerant traffic encounters This cruel and conscienceless couple. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation Then the cruel, the heartless, the conscienceless sea Shall bear me afar from Teresa and Leigh And the other twin friendships of crumpets and tea. Second Book of Verse It remained for one real discovery to resolve all her suspicions into the substance of fact and convict Carlotta of being the most conscienceless of deceivers. The "Genius" The young must be taught, and Holy Mother Church knows only too well that religious training must be woven into the fibre of secular learning if we would not have a conscienceless and irreligious generation. What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People She discovered that this same system was the father of a conscienceless commercial spirit which had existed for many centuries as the basis of all social organization. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century The finger of fate is upon you; The wrongs of your conscienceless mother Were the scar and bane of your childhood. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation And the existence of the Prussian army and its conscienceless masters was incompatible with the free and peaceful life of the world. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" The people are the slaves of their representatives, the representatives of their chiefs, and the chiefs of a conscienceless machine! A Modern Symposium Mr. Lake's invention has the demerit of giving conscienceless profiteers the opportunity to obliterate the oyster from our national waters. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons The fellow was in truth not a man, she perceived, but a creature so conscienceless and loathsome that she seemed contaminated through and through by his touch, his words, and their previous relations. In the Shadow of the Hills And being alone in the world, they were a law unto themselves, they could enjoy and squander and waste like conscienceless gods. The Rainbow It does not affect this view of the case that she unquestionably co�perated with her conscienceless sister and the servant girl in the production of the fraudulent phenomena to which Kerner testifies. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters It was warm and beautiful, and we felt greatly relieved to escape from the dry and dusty town with its conscienceless horse jockeys and its bibulous teamsters. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse See how her simplicity and virginal charm are enhanced by the rugged, remorseless strength, and by the conscienceless greed of the men surrounding her, and yet she sees in them something admirable. The Light of the Star A Novel Knowing the crafty, persistent, conscienceless character of the four men inspiring the trick, he was under no delusion that the “free whiskey” would end with a single case of bottles. In the Shadow of the Hills It was because he happened to be in this mood of conscienceless desire, unreflecting longing, that he had been able to listen calmly at the table, the day before, while Wilmott announced Cleopatra's fall. Too Old for Dolls A Novel Where goodness is weak it is exploited and becomes a victim of the stronger, when, devoid of a sense of mutuality, it is conscienceless. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit For Edith Conyngham he felt only disgust, and for Sister Claire an amused contempt; but sparkling Colette, so clever, bright, and amiable, so charmingly conscienceless, so gracefully wicked, inspired him with pity almost. The Art of Disappearing He could not bring himself to regard her as being so absolutely conscienceless as the circumstances suggested. The Rider of Waroona Each time the telegraph operator entered the anxious father's heart stood still—for there were nests of conscienceless submarines waiting for just such prey! Where the Souls of Men are Calling Such profits make it easy to buy up newspapers that are conscienceless as to the robbery of the unfortunate sick. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Perhaps the most conscienceless class who seek to solve the insoluble is the 'cultured' class. An Anarchist Woman Certainly no tirade of accusing scorn could have so wounded the self-love of the selfish, conscienceless man as did her cool farewell missive. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Napoleon I. 1793–1815 From Revolution’s putrid mess A Conqueror’s born, quite conscienceless, Millions of men and women died Victims to Napoleon’s pride. A Humorous History of England For Lucy's conscienceless treatment of the male she had unmitigated contempt. Virginia It is placed in the drink to form a craving for that drink and thus create a demand that will enrich the conscienceless manufacturers. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say The wound she had received from Philip had left her conscienceless towards Pete. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 A two-edged saw is an abomination devised by conscienceless manufacturers for the seduction of innocent amateurs. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 Mentally they were hard, efficient, ruthless, and conscienceless. The Airlords of Han So ineradicable, indeed, was his belief in the inherent virtue of every woman, that he had several times fallen a helpless victim in the financial traps of conscienceless Delilahs. Virginia These mean-souled, conscienceless moneymakers, who could not understand so brave, so fine a spirit, sold him to a Santa Rosa butcher! A Tramp's Notebook Possibly a new specimen of that detestable type of humanity, Euclid, will arise, and perhaps some conscienceless villain may invent a more complicated system of mathematics than algebra. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly By the careless, conscienceless nurse, or thoughtless mother, it is regarded as a real comfort and blessing. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies But all you natives are alike conscienceless, blind to the truth as if a curse from God was on you. The Valley of the Kings Had the man been a gentleman, the folly would have been mitigated, but Jason Jones, in Mr. Conant's opinion, was a selfish, miserly, conscienceless rascal. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery The Synod, the conscienceless villains, declared it vacant. The Northern Iron Thus some of the most conscienceless rogues in a generation go down to posterity with expurgated tablets to their memory, which of course is best for posterity. A Circuit Rider's Wife How far she developed and illustrated that conscienceless and austere doctrine to the girl-friends, who were mere transient shadows to her husband, I could not tell. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The circumstances of his death made it peculiarly touching and sacramental, and I was inexpressibly glad that I had fought his battle so unflinchingly, and defended him everywhere against his conscienceless assailants. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 Old Cap’n Blackbeard would have cheerfully certified to the eminent fitness of many of them for conscienceless deeds of derring-do. Joan of Arc of the North Woods While cruelly conscienceless in pursuit of desired ends, Pierre Lanier, unlike Paul, never permitted passion to interfere with matured or maturing plans. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 The most conscienceless gossips in this world are to be found always among the thoroughly-upright, meanly-impeccable members of any and every church. A Circuit Rider's Wife Satan, inasmuch as he lacks all moral instinct, can know nothing of conscience; and, because of His sinlessness, Jesus must also be pronounced conscienceless. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Even to-night he had looked into the hearts of women of her own former class; and he shuddered at their conscienceless inconsistency. The Genius "The big fellow at the wheel—the nerviest and most conscienceless scoundrel in the Paumotus." A Son Of The Sun Nevertheless it must not be assumed that Edwin’s father was a callous and conscienceless brute, and Edwin a martyr of neglect. Clayhanger A dangerous gift in the hands of a conscienceless girl! A Voice in the Wilderness Managers consciencelessly broke their promises; Mr. Quiller and the other dramatic agents were blandly indifferent. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life When it once gets a firm grip upon its victim it quickly converts the honest, upright man into a conscienceless rogue, who soon becomes the centre of a widespread circle of ruin and untold misery! The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa Many devices have been invented for training or using the memory, and not a few worthless "systems" have been imposed by conscienceless fakers upon uninformed people. The Mind and Its Education The conservative, conscienceless respectability of wealth was, as is usually the case with it in the annals of the Anglo-Saxon race, quite in the wrong and predestined to well-merited defeat. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series I will help him throw off the shackles with which conscienceless capitalism has fettered him. The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure When a conscienceless mind is buttressed by a pugnacious temperament then houses and land, and cattle and maidservants, and such-like, the small change of existence, are easily gotten. Here are Ladies This conscienceless dullness, or immense hollowness, in the Teuton people always suggests to me an eggshell encased in the pomp of steel. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life The old hero was conscienceless—a characteristic apparent in Greek civilization. A Hero and Some Other Folks In business relations he is as conscienceless as Tamerlane, who built a mountain of skulls as a monument to himself. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists As metal which attracts the electricity from a thunder-cloud, so they invariably suffer first when a newly appointed, conscienceless governor comes to rule. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond In resources of this nature Blake became quite conscienceless, salving his soul with the altogether Jesuitic claim that illegal means were always justified by the legal end. Never-Fail Blake This practice is too lightly adopted by thoughtless or conscienceless physicians. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence I don't like what you and your sister have said about the Cause and the conscienceless obedience exacted from its members. The Chief Legatee "So far as decent speech could compass it, I have ever sought to tell her what a conscienceless villain you are." The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady But Ottima is steadfast in evil, with the Italian conscienceless resoluteness. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Ephraim was absolutely conscienceless with respect to all his stolen pleasures. Pembroke A Novel I hate this upstart Cyclops and his conscienceless power. Destiny At last, wearied and exasperated, this half-Italian and altogether conscienceless king quite naturally thought of the stiletto. A Short History of France There are thousands like him in my dear New York—conscienceless, invertebrate, sybaritic sons of idleness, college-bred and under-bred little beasts who can buy and then cast off at their pleasure. The Husbands of Edith He knew Colton to be one of the most conscienceless "killers" in the section of the country near Tombstone. Square Deal Sanderson One of the most disconcerting characteristics of advocates, conservative and radical, is their conscienceless treatment of facts. The Business of Being a Woman "The man is a tyrant—and conscienceless," he exclaimed. Destiny So behold in me an active cannery operator when the season opens, a conscienceless profiteer for sentiment's sake. Poor Man's Rock Franklin listened with a quiet smile, which some one at last observed. page 172"Don't you agree," he was asked, "that tailors are a conscienceless and extortionate class?" American Men of Action "You talk as if he were perfectly conscienceless." The Splendid Folly Suppose it were indeed true—this Frankenstein, this conscienceless inhuman superman? The Master Mystery They believe you to be—and rightly—a conscienceless pirate. Destiny And the woman was wise, as women are, and conscienceless, yet suffering a little, too. A Man and a Woman Julian caught his breath and after a silence replied in a voice considerably sweetened that Aquila was a conscienceless pagan and not to be praised till he was dead. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem First, a gradual substitution of the conscienceless property holder for the one responsive to public sentiment. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 She was conscienceless, like the rest of her type. Married Life The True Romance His conscienceless lust for power has unbalanced him. Destiny He hates in his soul the miserable state to which a conscienceless industrialism has brought the daily life of mankind. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality It was not well that this conscienceless man should have discovered that they were traveling near this girl and her old servant. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem Yet proof after proof accumulates that British Cabinets continue to be towards our country as conscienceless as ever. Ulster's Stand For Union The polished gentleman of sentimental fiction has so long served as the type of smooth and conscienceless depravity that urbanity of demeanor inspires distrust in ruder minds. Etiquette Whether the conscienceless or those overburdened with this type of conscience have done more harm in the world is perhaps an open question, which I leave to the historians for settlement. The Nervous Housewife Dorian Gray has not got a cool, calculating, conscienceless character at all. Miscellanies Thus "justice" was perverted to the vile ends of the conscienceless scoundrels who posed as "officers of the law." The Old Franciscan Missions Of California He was thinking of all the water he had carried painstakingly in his hat, for the relief of this conscienceless young reprobate, and he was patently suspicious of some new trick. The Happy Family Kitty's gown that evening was really quite outrageous—the repartée of a conscienceless Parisian designer who took her hint that she wished something that would be entirely novel in the States. Youth and the Bright Medusa It will run its course—a short one, we trust—and be followed or joined by new drugs contributed by conscienceless trade. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Here was a conscienceless attorney, ready to make any number of affidavits in regard to the absence of important witnesses; ready to fight the law by every technicality of the law. The Mystery of Metropolisville She forgot his insolence, his meanness, his conscienceless hectoring, as she saw how his temples seemed fallen in and how his gray hair straggled over his brow. The Precipice At first she revolted against the court he so plainly paid to her in these last few days; it was bold, conscienceless, impertinent. The Man from Brodney's Germany in one brief month has given us a wonderful exhibition of conscienceless strength, of disciplined ferocity. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War Beautiful, passionate, and conscienceless, she condemns an innocent rival to the worst of fates, without a pang of conscience, and dies a violent death at the hands of one who was once her lover. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook "We are not so easily frightened," she asserted; adding, with a touch of the austerity which was her Puritan birthright: "Nor quite so conscienceless as you men." The Grafters He was also made the victim of a conscienceless swindler who fleeced him of many thousand dollars, and, to crown all, his old and indefatigable enemy, F.O.J. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II I confess that in the beginning this brilliant, pitiless lawyer, this consciencelessly powerful advocate, at once mocker and poseur, all but failed to interest me. A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction Having little morals to start with, he is now as utterly conscienceless as it is possible for a man to be and keep out of jail. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Here was the culmination of the knavish trickery of these conscienceless pirates who had attacked the port. The Great War Syndicate A slight outthrust of his lower jaw made his face strangely brutal, conscienceless. Black Jack It leads a man to a shameful loneliness and selfishness, so to speak—the more shameful, because it is so good-humored and conscienceless and serene. The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy For instance, Jeff Rankin was by far the most equable of the lot, but, given a little whisky, Jeff became a conscienceless devil. Way of the Lawless Perhaps the conscienceless tiger listened when she was "seeing the proper people were treated properly"? The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Beneath that gossamer veil of airy language which he flung over vicious theories, the conscienceless, unrelenting character of the man had been discovered by those clear eyes of the meditative onlooker. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Though conscienceless, he was more or less fastidious. Thoroughbreds He had none of the direct, passionate, conscienceless resolution of Laertes. The Man Shakespeare When, conscienceless, the nations Rebellious rose to smite the thorn-crowned Head Of Christendom, their proudest aspirations Ambitioned but a place amongst the dead. Purgatory This Fox was one of the most conscienceless wretches and desperadoes that ever lived. The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. The court scintillated with brilliant wits, conscienceless libertines, and scoffing atheists. Palamon and Arcite It leads a man to a shameful loneliness and selfishness, so to speak—the more shameful, because it is so good-humoured and conscienceless and serene. The History of Pendennis And, having concluded this bit of conscienceless and transparent management, the old lady remarked that she, herself, was going for a walk, and left him. The Late Mrs. Null Hence conscienceless friends and house servants of some men flourished greatly. Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster It is made up of conscienceless States, the disease of capitalism, and is become the monstrous machine called Civilisation, full of intolerance, hypocrisy, and violence. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War An immoral government presupposes a demoralized people, a conscienceless administration, greedy and servile citizens in the settled parts, outlaws and brigands in the mountains. The Reign of Greed I have found it necessary," Wingate remarked slowly, "to be prepared for all sorts of tricks when I am up against anybody as conscienceless as you. The Profiteers She might show herself as irritable, as conscienceless, as nerve-racked and disagreeable as she chose without fear of displaying "symptoms." Up the Hill and Over About it he was as conscienceless as a savage. Miss Lulu Bett And when his bloody vengeance was at last glutted, Sulla ruled as an extravagant, conscienceless, licentious dictator. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) We do not believe that he was a conscienceless impostor. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Of the discussions about "Monte Beni" I remember hearing a good deal, as my mother laughingly rehearsed passages in letters and reviews which scolded about Hawthorne's tantalizing vagueness and conscienceless Catholicity. Memories of Hawthorne They might easily have expected just such an ending to the affair, knowing as they did what conscienceless scamps were in all probability engineering the kidnapping affair. The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for the Silver Cup From first to last James was a valiant, plausible, conscienceless, heartless liar, with a keen feeling for the point of honour, and a truly Celtic passion of affection for his native hand. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Charles of Anjou was the latest and most efficient champion of the papal cause; and he lives in history as the forerunner of the conscienceless and shameless statesmanship of the Renaissance epoch. Medieval Europe I am being protected against that conscienceless varlet—Love! The Prince of Graustark Her visits to his office and her conscienceless use of his time were finally brought to a sudden close when one day he deliberately called other patients in, leaving her unnoticed in the waiting-room. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness At almost the same time, by a series of conscienceless machinations, he had compelled the King of Spain to abdicate, and had occupied Madrid and the fortresses of the northern provinces. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century She had seen no signs of that conscienceless, grasping policy usually imputed to big business. The Iron Trail Then, close to their hearts, we uncover a greedy, conscienceless worm, gnawing away in the dark—and consign the whole to the waste-barrel. Felix O'Day Death" he explained, "would certainly rid the German protectorate of such conscienceless scalawags as these, but might not be enough to discourage the bad element that disliked German rule. The Ivory Trail I made her feel that, wicked as I had been, I was not the conscienceless wretch she had imagined, and that she was mistaken as to the motives which led me into her presence. Agatha Webb To a conscienceless rogue it's no more unnatural to conspire against one's relatives than against total strangers. The Auction Block He could think of her now as she deserved to be thought of, as a consummate woman of the world, selfish, heartless, conscienceless. The Tempting of Tavernake His meaning was plain, had always been so from the first day he laid eyes upon her, and he was utterly conscienceless. The Spoilers She had expected it, for Sam Kirby had the name of being a hard, conscienceless man, and Danny Royal had given proof that he was not above resorting to desperate means to gain time. The Winds of Chance He dropped his iron and rushed after Rex, the conscienceless hoodlum joining in the chase. Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will Brewster sat on the edge of the bed and listened to diabolical stories of how conscienceless females had fleeced innocent and even godly men of wealth. Brewster's Millions Though some there be Would beard contingencies and buffet all, I'll not command a course so conscienceless. The Dynasts His widowed mother's indulgence, his own innate selfishness, and the hardening influence of war combine to render him a villain of the Richard III type, absolutely heartless and conscienceless. Balzac How such good knights can be deemed conscienceless and void of courtesy one knows not, except by a survival of the Puritanism of Ascham. Alfred Tennyson His aldermen, powerful, hungry, fighting men all—like those picked soldiers of the ancient Roman emperors—ruthless, conscienceless, as desperate as himself, had in their last redoubt of personal privilege fallen, weakened, yielded. The Titan In my time I have seldom seen such daring things marketed at any price as these conscienceless folk have worked off at par on this confiding observer. Essays on Paul Bourget He made another of those conscienceless speeches of his, all dripping with hypocrisy and guile. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Finally an adroit and conscienceless scheme was invented by which the entire rights of the French Canal Company were to be stolen by the Colombian Government. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times In truth he scorned no source of information, and was conscienceless in the compilation of this somewhat chaotic record. The Clue of the Twisted Candle A little later Haguenin printed editorials which referred to Cowperwood as "the wrecker," "the Philadelphia adventurer," "a conscienceless promoter," and the like. The Titan Comrade Parker," he said, "I fear that you have allowed constant communication with the conscienceless commercialism of this worldly city to undermine your moral sense. Psmith, Journalist The concentration of the Press into the hands of a few conscienceless schemers was threatening to reduce the journalist to a mere hireling, and the better-class men were becoming seriously alarmed. All Roads Lead to Calvary In tawdrily gorgeous apartments, where gathered the larger figures, the proconsuls of the world of crime, cold, conscienceless brains dissected the work of a colder and swifter brain than theirs, with suave and bitter envy. The Bat How far she developed and illustrated that conscienceless and austere doctrine to the girl-friends, who were mere transient shadows to her husband, I could not tell. Chance A Tale in Two Parts They are dying out, these careless, good-natured, conscienceless Bohemians; but quarter of a century ago they still lingered in Alsatian London. Paul Kelver, a Novel This is so important that I should hold it conscienceless to engage in the profession of criminology without knowing the dialects. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students That night Penrod awoke from a sweet, conscienceless slumber—or, rather, he was awakened. Penrod and Sam The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation. The Mirror of the Sea They are not conscienceless because they do nothing worth while; they do nothing worth while because they are conscienceless. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students |
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