Rueful
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Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the
rueful
face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
More example sentences with word rueful
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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