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Then she paused, glanced away from the camera, and took a long, rueful breath.

Gwynne regarded the thin sole of his house shoe with so rueful a countenance that the judge laughed outright.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

Pale, lean, taciturn and somewhat deaf, he bore much resemblance to the Knight of the Rueful Countenance.

By this time he was in a wholly different mood; angry with himself, and full of rueful thought about his wife.

At the rueful outcry, Clifford turned, just in time to see the bobbing bundle disappear in the muddy water.

In order to carry out my wife's orders, I had to disentangle Susan from Liosha's embrace and pack her off rueful to the nursery.

JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKE

She smiled into his eyes and made a rueful little gesture with both hands, which she allowed to fall gracefully to her sides.

THE ENVOY, HERHORACE BROWN FYFE

The man gave a sort of rueful laugh and came and delivered the pick and coolly watched the cradle.

Isabel laughed a little to herself, in a rueful fashion, as she hurried along the road.

Duty, as he conceived it, pointed him forward on the rueful path that he was travelling.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985