But one thing was niggling away at my conscience (for want of a better word).

They will forever gnaw at our conscience on the social plane.

The crowds were afraid of the veterans, as if at their own bad conscience.

He wanted to know the answer to one question that had been eating at his conscience for nearly two years.

Even so, the situation had begun to nag at his conscience.

The fact that she wasn't quite telling the truth tugged at her conscience.

The look of sheer hope on her face pulled at my heart and my conscience.

Everyone of us here should look at his own conscience and ask why this was not done - but they didn't do it.

But when he started to shift, she made a little sound of distress that scraped at his conscience.

It was like staring at his own conscience magnified many times.