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David, realizing he has sinned, is conscious-stricken.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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David, realizing he has sinned, is conscious-stricken.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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David, realizing he has sinned, is conscious-stricken.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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David, realizing he has sinned, is conscious-stricken.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Others feared the coach had his eagle eye fastened on them, being doubtless conscious-stricken with the knowledge that they were not in their element.
Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums Mark Overton
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Fabrici made no answer, being conscious-stricken; but Rizzo turned upon her with blazing eyes.
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull
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Beduin shepherds bowing all unconsciously before the brother whom they had sold into slavery, and who now holds in his hands the power of life and death; of Joseph's disclosure of himself to the conscious-stricken suppliants; of Jacob's cry when convinced at last that "the governor over all the land of Egypt" was his long-mourned son.
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In the next instant, the Maruja who had been standing beside Guest, conscious-stricken and remorseful in the presence of the man she had deceived, and calmly awaiting her punishment, changed at this luckless exhibition of her own peculiar womanly weapons.
Maruja Bret Harte 1869
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This long wandering with the conscious-stricken one over her past was difficult to bear, but he dared not again urge her with a question.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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[FREDERIK, _conscious-stricken for the time being, bows his head.
The Return of Peter Grimm David Belasco 1892
qroqqa commented on the word conscious-stricken
Not in OED, and it looks like an eggcorn, but it has been used by George Eliot, Bret Harte, and Georgette Heyer among others.
January 14, 2009