Ruefully

Ruefully, he recognized in Miss Willison the type of unusually honest witness whom he had always found difficult.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Ruefully: When had I become the parent to her child?

Life is Digital 2009

Ruefully, he regretted that they had not abducted him from, and duplicated the surroundings of, say, a suite at the Four Seasons.

Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

Ruefully noting the amount of work left to be completed, Eleanor reluctantly decided that the quilt would have to be an anniversary gift instead.

The Quilter's Legacy Jennifer Chiaverini 2003

Ruefully noting the amount of work left to be completed, Eleanor reluctantly decided that the quilt would have to be an anniversary gift instead.

The Quilter's Legacy Jennifer Chiaverini 2003

Ruefully noting the amount of work left to be completed, Eleanor reluctantly decided that the quilt would have to be an anniversary gift instead.

The Quilter's Legacy Jennifer Chiaverini 2003

Ruefully he turned his back on the sea at St. Kilda and Elsternwick, the pleasant spot of earth in which he once believed he had found a resting place; gave the green gardens of Toorak a wide berth — no room there for an elderly interloper! — and, stifling his distaste, explored the outer darkness of Footscray, Essendon, Moonee Ponds.

Ultima Thule 2003

Ruefully noting the amount of work left to be completed, Eleanor reluctantly decided that the quilt would have to be an anniversary gift instead.

The Quilter's Legacy Jennifer Chiaverini 2003

Ruefully noting the amount of work left to be completed, Eleanor reluctantly decided that the quilt would have to be an anniversary gift instead.

The Quilter's Legacy Jennifer Chiaverini 2003

Ruefully he told Abigail that “all the fortune that I have been able to make for myself ” and his children amounted only to “liberty, and the right to catch fish.”

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002