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Example sentences for "remorse"

Lexicographically close words:
remonstrative; remontant; remooue; remooued; remora; remorseful; remorsefully; remorseless; remorselessly; remorses
  1. Remorse he felt none, for there was before his eyes the un-healed stump of Snarleyyow.

  2. Oh, if the dog had any spark of feeling, how must he then have been stung with remorse at his ingratitude to so kind a master!

  3. Think of the exquisite suffering which remorse has inflicted on every human being who has reached years of reflexion.

  4. If God made man free, and man by misusing his freedom brought sin into the world, and remorse as a punishment for sin, then we have some explanation of the mystery of evil.

  5. And of all senseless delusions and senseless wastes of power, those which are involved in the feeling of remorse are the worst.

  6. It is a hopeless case to try to banish remorse by making God responsible for man's temptations and sin.

  7. In remorse we wring our hands over deeds which we could not possibly have avoided doing, and reproach ourselves for emitting what we could not by any possibility have done.

  8. The present alone is ours, and we must resolutely make the most of it, without remorse for a past which we can never alter, and without disquietude about a future which we cannot determine, and may never possess.

  9. Ethiopians might as reasonably blame themselves for their black skins, or be conscience-stricken for not having golden hair, as any human being feel remorse for what he has done or left undone in the past.

  10. My genuine remorse and the absence of all concealment on my part would speak powerfully for me.

  11. So, partly with this object, and partly to appease the remorse which now revived and stung me deeper than before, I undertook long and weary pilgrimages after office hours.

  12. Which never yet without remorse Even for a moment didst depart From thy remote and spheréd course To haunt the place where passions reign-- Back to thy solitude again!

  13. Methinks the woe, which made that father stand Baring his dumb remorse to future days, Was woe than Byron's woe more tragic far.

  14. The life of Montefiore was in his hands; he would wash away his remorse in the blood of that Italian.

  15. Diard, at least, did not buy his remorse at a low price; he made himself one of these privileged men.

  16. This her father knew, and his bitterest pang of remorse came from this thought, 'What would Maude say if she knew?

  17. In Frank's heart there was a feeling worse than death itself, for keen remorse and bitter regret were torturing his soul as he sat beside the wreck of all his hopes and felt that he had sinned for naught.

  18. Then realizing that once more she had let go of her fiery temper, she fled from the house up the trail to a great boulder on the summit of the mountain, and threw herself face down in an abandon of shame, remorse and despair.

  19. Toady looked back at the spot which Billiard had adorned a moment before, and remorse overtook him.

  20. They seemed in sullen resentment to have been preserved; and Emmeline could not but reflect with pain on the anger and asperity in which they were written; on the remorse and uneasiness with which they must have been read.

  21. I could now no longer flatter myself that my error would be concealed, since of its consequences I could not doubt; and while I suffered all the terrors of remorse and apprehension, Lord Clancarryl came over.

  22. What remorse I had for exciting your credulity!

  23. It seems a shame, either way, but she undoubtedly loves her settler hubby, and she's just the kind to eat her heart out through remorse and shame.

  24. He had suffered, during his absence, remorse for his own obstinacy mingling in equal proportions with the pain of Helen's coldness.

  25. It all culminated in that moment, and with it mixed deep shame, remorse for her conduct.

  26. A few hours later Hansie was in the train, speeding, with remorse tugging at her heart, to her mother's side.

  27. That the enemy would not have shot him in any case, because of his youth, makes no difference to the blackness of his deed, except perhaps to add to the bitterness of his remorse when afterwards he was apprised of this fact.

  28. But his remorse and hesitation lasted only while he remained silent.

  29. Nevertheless, amidst all this pomp, it was evident that he did not entirely feel the ease he assumed, and that a species of remorse rankled at his heart, spite of the courtier-like gallantry with which he had invested himself.

  30. Compelled to give up hope, the victim of the wildest remorse and anguish, Friedemann fled to dissipation for relief.

  31. I will strive to overcome the anguish and remorse that have wrecked me.

  32. It is a question which he often put to himself when remorse and self-reproach gnawed at his conscience and when he fancied himself scorned and persecuted by all his former friends.

  33. To the shock of a catastrophe they had to add the sinking remorse over warnings disobeyed.

  34. The boys were too far down in remorse to care to bring up any of the subjects near their hearts.

  35. In one of his last letters in which he expressed great affection for the "delightful place of his nativity," he wrote, "I have no remorse of conscience for my past conduct.

  36. Had you not transgressed the obedience of a son by wedding Eveline Neville in secret while a guest at Knockwinnock, our plot might have separated you for a time, but would have left at least your sorrows without remorse to canker them.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "remorse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apology; attrition; bitterness; compunction; contrition; grief; guilt; pang; penance; penitence; regret; remorse; repentance; shame; sorrow