Rueful in example sentence

"So much the better," said the duke, "for many droll things cannot be said in few words; but not to lose time in talking, come, great Knight of the Rueful Countenance-""Of the Lions, your highness must say," said Sancho, "for there is no Rueful Countenance nor any such character now."

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The result of these experiments reminds one of the rueful saying: the operation was a success, but the patient died.

(Full, and somewhat rueful, disclosure: one of my sons is a journalist at the Washington Post.)

Two years later, a rueful Keynes wrote:“It is, it seems, politically impossible for a capitalist democracy to organize expenditure on the scale necessary to make the grand experiment which would prove my case – except in war conditions.”

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."

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