remorseful
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“Jirga”: Remorseful and resolute, an Australian soldier travels back to Afghanistan to beg forgiveness of those he hurt while serving there.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2019
The first is 1975’s “Last Bus to Woodstock,” the last 1999’s “The Remorseful Day.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2018
In what turns out to be their final meeting, the detective duo drink beer beside the Cherwell at sunset, and Morse recites the AE Houseman poem that gives The Remorseful Day its characteristically punning title.
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2018
The character died in The Remorseful Day, published in 1999.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2017
Remorseful in the thought of betraying them, Boots at one moment declared, that rather than combine any longer against them, he would by preference "have had it out in half-a-dozen rounds with the governor!"
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster
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