It is not a "blind" query stating that "a prominent citizen has been killed" or that "a regrettable tragedy has occurred.
Three regrettable things were done by the legislature," said President Charles B.
Yet all of us, in every station of life, have committed regrettable indiscretions.
Regrettable as it was, few men in Italy accepted Ministerial portfolios for the sake of the small remuneration paid to them.
She had already cured her fiance of many regrettable habits.
It is regrettable to have to add, in the interests of strict veracity, that the greater part of Lady Adela's carefully reasoned and studiously moderate address was flowing in at one ear and out at the other.
While I believe the above to be a distinct species, the disposition to make new species of varieties is regrettable in many botanists.
It isregrettable that thus far it has not been reported in quantity.
A regrettable lack of foresight was undoubtedly displayed in some particulars.
I was a good deal concerned in the operations in East Africa during the first year and a half of the war, a period of scanty progress and of regrettable misadventures.
Nevertheless, his record here was not clear of blots, showing a few regrettable inconsistencies.
Considering that the revenues of these houses had been granted for women and had been administered by women for centuries, this fact appears somewhat regrettable from the woman's point of view.
My dear mother did not now go out in the evenings, being too fatigued from her most regrettable sleeplessness.
His wife wore blue spectacles, having cried herself blind over the regrettable incident.
It is regrettable that his Holiness does not explain the meaning which he attaches to this phrase, in itself unmeaning, so dear to the Germans.
There is, indeed, a regrettable tendency to deify common clay nowadays," assented the patroon, soothingly.
All my excuses," I explained, "for this regrettable delay.
In America, especially in our cities, we have regrettable traces of mid-Victorianism, and we have to contend with Irish politicians and German contractors.
One of the more immediate outcomes of this regrettable state was the falling under suspicion of Rivera.
This deep-rooted feeling of the whole Press has been once more revived in very regrettable fashion by the recent Belgian deportations.
It is a regrettable fact that, in spite of my repeated warnings to the authorities, nothing was ever done on the German side before the war.
The clumsiness of such formal declarations was, as I have said, only surpassed by the regrettable impression of a juristic argument produced by our first Lusitania Note.
It is a regrettable fact that at the Hague Conference we accepted the English standpoint on the question of war on commerce, and not the American.
We must preserve our full freedom to act as circumstances may seem to us to require in any such unfavourable and regrettable development of the present crisis as the Chancellor contemplates.
Elton's versions of portions of Homer appear to be superior to Chapman, and to make it regrettable that he did not complete the work.
True, there were certain regrettable omissions, but fortunately neither Mr. and Mrs. Head nor Anna seemed aware of it.
More strange andregrettable was the fact that Miss Forsyth's name was also omitted from the list.
It is regrettable that there are not more like it.
The wrinkle having failed of effect, he observed that an agreement was an agreement and spoke, as a man who contemplates regrettable necessities, of his solicitor.
I quote the Tyro's regrettable characterization of these acts of simple courtesy.
The immediate cause of these regrettable disturbances was Hoyo Solorzana, the governor of Santiago de Cuba.
As her only aim is commerce, that is sordid gain, she wages a regrettable war upon a warlike nation that does not know meanness and has no other sentiments than the love of her king and her country.
