Priscilla, in rueful remembrance of many trips to the dressmaker's. From Wordnik.com. [Just Patty] Reference
With wry insight, he views the Steins ensconced in rueful domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Salt: Summary and book reviews of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong.] Reference
In fact, it could be the kind of flop that folks around the blogosphere discuss in rueful tones. From Wordnik.com. [Paint it black: DC Comics solicitations for July 2009 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
Lochte smiled, the kind of grin that some might call rueful, but for him it was just a chuckle. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Absolutely," he said with a kind of rueful joviality. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
It'll be all right, "he concluded with a pleasant but kind of rueful smile. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade on a Transport] Reference
So little as I ever got for all I have borrowed, "added Frank, with a kind of rueful amaze. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
She smiled a rueful smile and entered the back seat. From Wordnik.com. [Stones] Reference
"Principally loss," he remarked with a rueful smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
"What did I warn you?" he exclaimed with a rueful laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
His tone was somewhat reminiscent of a rueful schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Conference of Catholic Bishops and he gives a rueful laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Shepherd To A Flock In Pain] Reference
At sight of his rueful face the Major burst into fresh laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
"Oh, I didn't intend to have him as a pet," was the rueful answer of. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
He was interrupted by a loud, rueful "Ha!" from Microsoft's chairman. From Wordnik.com. [The Microsoft Mess] Reference
"But my story is not finished," Grandpapa replied, with a rueful face. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Mrs. Dean could not repress a faint smile at Jerry's rueful admissions. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
He smiled a pearly-toothed, avuncular smile, rueful in some distant way. From Wordnik.com. [Let the shitbirds fly] Reference
Bascombe does indeed live in Haddam, and he's as rueful and ornery as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Seems Like Old Times] Reference
"Because -- oh, because -- it wouldn't come," she cried, with a rueful laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
"Well, if it is," said Billie with a rueful little smile, "the joke is on us.". From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion] Reference
"It's a long way to shore," said Phil, with a rueful glance over his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
"I'm afraid you'll have to kidnap me, then," repeated Nan, with a rueful smile. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
"I haven't all the say about that, Dashaway," confessed Ridgely in a rueful way. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
Mary looked after the moving car with a rueful smile that changed to one of glee. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
"I suppose it is something along that line," assented Larry, with a rueful laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
Still, a rueful laugh is all I can manage, sitting in the room, head in my hands. From Wordnik.com. [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference
It was exactly like shutting a door in one's face, she thought with rueful amusement. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
"Good-bye to tennis, also golf, for the rest of my stay," was Roger's rueful comment. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Corporal Wilson smiled at the perplexed and somewhat rueful faces of the four Army Boys. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Janetta looked so rueful at this remark that her father laughed a little and pulled her ear. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Bobby Kennedy was always rueful about being called "ruthless," but he was and deserved to be. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to the Family] Reference
Beside him, looking down with a rueful smile, stood a young man wearing space medical insignia. From Wordnik.com. [Survival Tactics] Reference
The bluntness of her retort gave him an almost rueful conviction of the needlessness of caution. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
"Poor fellow!" quoth Mother Rigby, with a rueful glance at the relics of her ill-fated contrivance. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
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