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    rueful


    1. ‘Yes … I did, didn’t I?’ he said with a rueful sigh, a yawn catching him mid sigh


    2. Ged looked slightly embarrassed at this point, the rueful half-


    3. a moment’s hesitation and a rueful sidelong glance at the


    4. He did sound genuinely rueful, looked disconsolate although, she reasoned, only because he had become personally attached to her – his special project


    5. ” I saw that George had a rueful smile on his face at this news and I remembered that he had taken quite a shine to Mabel at one time


    6. His smile was rueful


    7. “It’s very difficult to estimate the age, without further study of the rate of deposition, and the source of the, er; crud,” he concluded with a rueful grin at the other men


    8. Then I heard the rueful sound of a gun cocking, and as instinct would have it I froze in place


    9. He paused again, this time his face visibly contorted by a strange mix of exasperation and sorrow, his eyes torn between shedding tears of anger or rueful weeping


    10. “There were many—could not—be saved!” Tears of regret seemed encased in the rueful utterances

    11. Don’t snort it, he thought with a rueful grimace


    12. Robert gave a rueful smile and shrug


    13. sideways, but then collapsed with a rueful laugh back onto the step


    14. He tested her weight with a tug and a rueful grunt,


    15. crowd and he gave us back a rueful grin and then surrendered himself to


    16. He offered a rueful smile to the Casserole Patrol


    17. With a rueful grin of his own, (once their laughter subsided some) Gerry ruefully agreed that perhaps he’d better have one of his men pick up the car for her instead of himself, but he would oversee the transportation of it, and her luggage, to insure she got them expediently and safely


    18. ” Kathy paused in her recital a moment, before continuing in a judiciously rueful tone


    19. With a rueful grin, Annie agreed, for she knew the pup would eventually end up over at her house anyways, for she knew her brother well, so it was easier to gracefully give in now and give her consent than to spend the next month trying to dissuade her brother from wanting the dog


    20. A rueful smile shaped her lips

    21. There was such a rueful note in his voice that I had to chuckle a little, even though I was not all that happy about missing this one chance to see him


    22. As for Lady Shuttleworth, she only smiled a rueful smile and stroked her poor Tussie's hair in silence when, having murmured something about the horses being tired, he reproved her by telling her that it was everybody's duty to do what they could for strangers in difficulties


    23. that he voiced this rueful opinion in his native tongue


    24. Rafael bared his teeth in a rueful grin


    25. Instead the rueful god was hit squarely in the chest by his own shot, whereupon he discovered himself crashing through protuberant bedrock


    26. Madden gave her a rueful smile and grabbed her hands again knotting the rope around one and brutally pulling it behind her back whilst Gisburn moved out of the way


    27. Robert shook his head and managed a rueful


    28. Matthew shook his head with a rueful grin that


    29. He gave a rueful smile


    30. and the king offered a rueful smile

    31. Flint was flying the chopper and Anna noticed him shaking his head, as a rueful smile played across his features


    32. ” His half-grin was more rueful than cruel, but I still didn’t appreciate it


    33. His expression turned rueful and he shrugged his massive shoulders, “It was worth a shot


    34. And said Sancho, "If by chance these gentlemen should want to know who was the hero that served them so, your worship may tell them that he is the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance


    35. On hearing this the bachelor took his departure, as has been said, without making any reply; and Don Quixote asked Sancho what had induced him to call him the "Knight of the Rueful Countenance" more then than at any other time


    36. "That's what I'm waiting for; for all this, word for word, is in store for your worship under the title of the Knight of the Rueful Countenance


    37. The Knight of the Rueful Countenance was still very anxious to find out who the owner of the valise could be, conjecturing from the sonnet and letter, from the money in gold, and from the fineness of the shirts, that he must be some lover of distinction whom the scorn and cruelty of his lady had driven to some desperate course; but as in that uninhabited and rugged spot there was no one to be seen of whom he could inquire, he saw nothing else for it but to push on, taking whatever road Rocinante chose--which was where he could make his way--firmly persuaded that among these wilds he could not fail to meet some rare adventure


    38. He was bareheaded, and notwithstanding the swiftness with which he passed as has been described, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance observed and noted all these trifles, and though he made the attempt, he was unable to follow him, for it was not granted to the feebleness of Rocinante to make way over such rough ground, he being, moreover, slow-paced and sluggish by nature


    39. The other, whom we may call the Ragged One of the Sorry Countenance, as Don Quixote was of the Rueful, after submitting to the embrace pushed him back a little and, placing his hands on Don Quixote's shoulders, stood gazing at him as if seeking to see whether he knew him, not less amazed, perhaps, at the sight of the face, figure, and armour of Don Quixote than Don Quixote was at the sight of him


    40. The Knight of the Thicket, hearing him of the Rueful Countenance talk in this strain, did nothing but stare at him, and stare at him again, and again survey him from head to foot; and when he had thoroughly examined him, he said to him:

    41. "No," replied he of the Rueful Countenance; "though it may be in the dice that we may throw deuce-ace instead of sixes; but all will depend on thy diligence


    42. Seeing this Sancho said, "Good luck to him who has saved us the trouble of stripping the pack-saddle off Dapple! By my faith he would not have gone without a slap on the croup and something said in his praise; though if he were here I would not let anyone strip him, for there would be no occasion, as he had nothing of the lover or victim of despair about him, inasmuch as his master, which I was while it was God's pleasure, was nothing of the sort; and indeed, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, if my departure and your worship's madness are to come off in earnest, it will be as well to saddle Rocinante again in order that he may supply the want of Dapple, because it will save me time in going and returning: for if I go on foot I don't know when I shall get there or when I shall get back, as I am, in truth, a bad walker


    43. "That is true," said he of the Rueful Countenance, "but how shall we manage to write the letter?"


    44. "The order shall go signed in the same book," said Don Quixote, "and on seeing it my niece will make no difficulty about obeying it; as to the loveletter thou canst put by way of signature, 'Yours till death, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance


    45. "The Knight of the Rueful Countenance


    46. Body of me! how your worship says everything as you like in it! And how well you fit in 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance' into the signature


    47. In this way, and in sighing and calling on the fauns and satyrs of the woods and the nymphs of the streams, and Echo, moist and mournful, to answer, console, and hear him, as well as in looking for herbs to sustain him, he passed his time until Sancho's return; and had that been delayed three weeks, as it was three days, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance would have worn such an altered


    48. "That is it," said Sancho; "then, as well as I remember, it went on, 'The wounded, and wanting of sleep, and the pierced, kisses your worship's hands, ungrateful and very unrecognised fair one; and it said something or other about health and sickness that he was sending her; and from that it went tailing off until it ended with 'Yours till death, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance


    49. "otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance


    50. 'Sovereign Lady,' and the end 'Yours till death, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance;' and between these two I put into it more than three hundred
































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    Synonyms for "rueful"

    contrite remorseful rueful ruthful wretched miserable pitiable pitiful disheartened despondent dejected regretful sorry grieving sorrowful mournful

    "rueful" definitions

    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses