Significados de swift compunction en inglés

I'm sorry... he began, answering his own swift compunction, not her remark.

She heard him grit his teeth; and turned with swift compunction.

And then with swift compunction he kissed her face of disappointment.

There had come upon him a swift compunction.

She joked till tears were near; then with swift compunction Jane was caught in arms tender and strong and loved back to happiness.

Then she thought with a swift compunction of the stranger they were bringing home, and wondered if her father would resent the intrusion.

In the end Piers awoke suddenly to the fact that she was looking utterly exhausted, and with swift compunction piloted her to her room.

"That's not what I ever want to do," declared the young man, with swift compunction.