When he thrashed about, one could not be sure if his character's distress was caused by a serious illness or a troubled conscience.

Had lived with a troubled conscience ever since: had in fact expected a summons to the cabin.

She didn't know if it was the look of a troubled conscience or of fever.

For many whites, his public canonization relieved their otherwise troubled racial conscience.

Garion went up on deck to wrestle alone with his troubled conscience.

But what am I going to do about my troubled conscience?

This book would have eased a troubled conscience.

The fact that a man with a troubled conscience must wield that weapon makes this, too, a very human story.

That helped to quiet my increasingly troubled conscience.

Ms. Allen was strong in her near-stillness, rising from the group as its troubled conscience.