Meryl and Diana descended reluctantly at the hotel, and looked round disparagingly at their little hot bedroom, thinking regretfully of their tent in the wilderness.
He is going to see two young miners named Macaulay a few miles away, and was regretfully compelled to decline," and the humorous smile on his face widened, for he knew that Diana would be piqued.
Well, we must be going," he said regretfully at last, and they went to the place where they had left their horses tethered a little lower down.
Martha regretfully obeyed, and by evening was ready to agree to the exclusion of the child altogether, when she saw how her mistress's temperature had risen.
Malone wondered how best to announce himself, and regretfullygave up the idea of tiptoeing up to the girl, placing his hands over her eyes, kissing the back of her neck and crying: "Surprise!
He sighed deeply, thought about a cigar and decided regretfully against it, here on the public street where he would be visible to anyone.
This was our last view of Flanders, and, as we regretfully saw the lights of the city sink out of sight behind the tossing waves that gleamed brightly under the moonbeams, we knew that our pilgrimage was over.
Our visit was unfortunate--as we regretfully told one another at the time--in that it came in July, before the season had really opened.
As no one seemed desirous of availing himself of this offer, the man returned the bottle regretfully to his pocket.
Very much grown up looked Betty in this costume, as her mother had regretfully told her.
If I had only thought of it, I might have been a real valentine, too," regretfully said the shepherdess.
Disappointed because their efforts had been unavailing, the lads regretfully folded the flag.
Ned smiled a trifle regretfully as he related briefly the adventures of the four lads with those who have read the previous volume of this series are already familiar.
My thoughts turnedregretfully to the woody shores of Greenwater Broad.
From the moment when I dropped into this degradation, I might sometimes think regretfully of Mary--at the morning time, when penitent thoughts mostly come to us; but I ceased absolutely to see her in my dreams.
The little man's eyes gleamed pleasurably yet regretfully upon the gem as he spoke.
He whispered regretfully to his solicitor: "If we had got hold of that girl, by George!
At the end of an hour I would wake up regretfullyand find my face as smooth and as soft as an infant's.
But I am afraid I don't;" and Meg shook her head, as she thought regretfully of all the pretty things she wanted.
Yes, I should think so;" and Laurie thought regretfully of his own idle days.
She was regretfully bounced out of three department stores in six days for "sassing" the customers and the aisle-manager.
She was readily accepted by a stage-manager, but when he found that he could not teach her the usual figures or persuade her to keep in step or line with the rest he regretfully let her go.
Regretfully from its more or less nondescript companions, she picked up the Bengal Tiger now and pulled at its real, bristle-whiskers.
And from the tattered old landscape paper on the walls Civil War heroes stared regretfully down through pale and tarnished frames.
You will have a lot of time on your hands," Aunt May regretfully sighed after her husband had declined the use of the typewriter for himself.
Sir Hector when he had presented Jasmine with the second small green disk, for which the management had regretfully but firmly exacted another payment.
Jasmine was expecting every minute to hear her aunt regretfully inform her that owing to Sir Hector's condition it would be impossible for her to go to the ball, because somebody would be required to stay at home and look after the invalid.
The following afternoon it was definitely decided that Sir Hector was too ill to be left in the hands of servants, and, very regretfully as she assured her, Lady Grant told her niece that she must ask her to stay at home.
The manageress of a cafe lost in Marylebone had heard her kindly, but had looked at her boots plastered with mud, then at the dirty fringes of her petticoats and said, regretfully almost, that she would not do.
Yet, something in the book interested her, and it was regretfully that she handed the volumes back to Farwell when he called for them at half-past six.
Victoria surveyed the difficulty for a moment; then she regretfully decided that she must ask Mrs Holt for a cardboard box, for her hat-box was already mortgaged.
Chillon accused him, and he regretfully grinned; he would have owned to it eloquently, excited by the extreme ingenuity, but humour at the criminal bar is an abject thing, that has to borrow from metaphysics for the expository words.
How had he come to this pass, which swung him round to think almost regretfully of the scorned multitude of fair besiegers in the market, some of whom had their unpoetic charms?
She hesitated, comparing the two; then, having formed her decision, walked rapidly away with the resolute stride of the woman who tears herself regretfully from the artful temptations of the shop-window.
Thinking discretion the better part of valour, I regretfully turned away from Mafeking by the road leading up an incline to the laager, still several miles distant.
He himself tellsregretfully how at the time of his cousin Eliza's death, soon after the appearance of his first book, he joined sorrow and vice in tragic manner.
There is hardly a more poignant story than the one he tells regretfully in the Confessions of the time when he first began to drink and how his mother never voiced her reproach.
Brunhild regretfully left her own country, escorted by the thousand Nibelung warriors; and when they had journeyed nine days, Gunther bade Siegfried spur ahead and announce his safe return to his family and subjects.
Regretfully Lohengrin led her into the great hall, where, in the presence of the assembled knights, he told her that he was Lohengrin, son of Parzival, the guardian of the Holy Grail.
I knew that I had gathered all my roses, and I thought regretfully of the chill loneliness of the world that lay beyond the limits of this paradise.
A few hours later you regretfully bid adieu to the charming little author, and watch her until the bend of the road hides her from your sight.
You are rising regretfullyto leave, when the door opens, and Captain Chetwynd comes in.
After turning these over with reverential care, we regretfully leave behind us one of the most interesting and important literary collections ever presented to the Nation.
Our attention is constantly directed to it during our stay in the pleasant city; it is a landmark when we are on the tramp; and it is the last object to fade from our view as we regretfully take our departure.
We regretfully record the fact that since our visit, both porch and figure have been demolished.
Long before it was half-way up the hillside he had lost sight of it, and had turned back regretfully to his hoeing.
The Boy gave a little derisive laugh; and Jabe, dropping the end of the sapling, acknowledgedregretfully that there was no fox at home.
We were all sorry to hear this and doubly sorry when on Sunday the 11th he mounted a mule and regretfully rode away with Mr. Harrell.
Reluctantly Tom reloaded his weapon and thrust it back into its shoulder holster; regretfully he murmured: "Doggone!
The more Gray pondered the matter, the more regretfully he realized that he had overplayed his hand, as it were.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regretfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
