One English farmer wrote to the `Farmer's Weekly' that the evictions were effective, but at the same time he regretted that "as long as the Native kept to the public road he still had a resting place for the hollow of his foot.
It must not be supposed, however, that all English colonial journalists regretted the operation of this atrocious law.
He welcomed the deputation and regretted the cold reception accorded to it by the Colonial Secretary.
DOWER'S REPLY He regretted that, as one speaker had said, some people read the Act through the spectacles coloured by their desires.
For that reason, he regretted the amendment proposed by General Hertzog, because the amendment would have bad results if it were accepted.
After this encounter the whites, for the first time, regretted that there were not any arms in the place with which to arm all the Natives.
The President (Sir William Beaumont) said he was sorry to hear that a son of Wietzie found himself homeless, but he regretted that the Commission could not help him.
Besides expounding in private houses, Whitefield added five more sermons to the two already preached; many of his hearers "were brought under great convictions; and the people much regretted his departure.
It is only just to Mr. Gibb to say, that, in after years, he regretted the publication of his pamphlet.
I never saw him again after he parted from us, and many among us regretted his absence, and his daring skill and bravery, in the expeditions in which we afterwards engaged: his place was never filled among us.
He saluted us and rode off; and, not long after, a servant of the Nuwab came with a civil message and some fruit, to say that his master regretted he could not see us, and was sorry that he had been under the necessity of searching our camp.
Not altogether; but I regretted it the more because you were a woman," said Deronda, with an irrepressible smile.
This defect in me was always particularly regretted by my mother, she being an excellent performer herself both on the piano and on the harp.
It was perhaps to be regretted that the police had not succeeded in ascertaining where the money for the stolen object had disappeared to, as this circumstance prevented any possible accomplices being brought to justice.
It was likewise to be regretted that motives for the crime could not be sufficiently explained; but the accused was no doubt herself principally to be blamed for this, through her persistent silence.
I regretted the plain attire, which I had thought would be suitable for my supposed errand; but there was no help for that now; I had to get along as best I could.
Everybody hadregretted the loss of Sir Thomas from the House.
Mr. Trigger regretted that money had been given to Mr. Pabsby.
On the next morning, the morning of the day on which he was to return to town, the arguments did not seem to be so irresistible, and he almost regretted what he had done.
I regretted that this information had not reached me before leaving the city, but still deemed it inexpedient to change my orders, and accordingly returned to the camp.
It is regretted that, owing to the inability of the Department to discover your address, the medal could not sooner be forwarded.
One of them was my beloved possession, so that I keenly regretted the deed, but even here I had not acted consciously; I had simply smashed away because something unknown was approaching me.
I regretted the deed immediately, the more so as the assaulted man bemoaned his misfortune, ``inside they throw him out, outside they box his ears.
It is to be regretted that the names of the persons who committed this outrage have not been preserved, that their conduct on this occasion might have been held up to universal condemnation.
No one, it is believed, more deeply regretted the fatal catastrophe, than the author of the charge upon Logan's integrity, which had led to this unhappy result.
If nothing had survived of Seneca's plays but a collection of sententiae, we might have regretted his loss almost as we regret the loss of Menander.
More important is the lyric poet Caesius Bassus,[413] whose loss is the more to be regretted because of the very scanty remains of Roman lyric verse that have survived to modern times.
It is a tribute to the dexterity of his rhetoric that his influence should have been so enormous, but it is to be regretted in the interests of the drama.
She was amusing in her talk of the quantity of different fires she had seen; she had also seen accidental- death corpses, but never a suicide in the act; and here she regretted the failure of her experiences.
It became plain to Townshend that the Parliamentary majority regretted the repeal of the Stamp Act and resented the theory that America should not be taxed.
It is to be regretted that Pitt began his long period of authority by an attempt as stubborn as it was ungenerous to keep his great rival out of public life.
That a life of this eminent and much regretted man will be written by some competent author, there can be little doubt.
I expressed due sympathy for her losses, and regretted that her health, bodily and spiritual, was so indifferent.
It is almost to beregretted that the satirist gave up his design, for a capital Philippic has been thereby lost to the world.
As soon as we started I began a conversation with her and finding her very affable I regrettedthat the distance to Bethel was not five miles instead of one.
Still in a morbid state of mind, Iris silently regrettedthat the message had not been written, instead of being delivered by word of mouth.
He regretted that circumstances had prevented him from calling on Mr. Mountjoy, before he left England.
I compared a Sabbath-day with another day, and regretted that custom had set it apart for observances which were repugnant to my taste.
We passed Captain Massie's on Monday and regretted to find both Mrs. Massie and the Captain indisposed.
Not giving herself credit, however, for the patience she had acquired, she has often with a womanly tear in her eye, regretted to the author that she was so easily excited and in the excitement so precipitate.
Frazier, who was present, informed us that it was the most felicitous address he ever heard from one great man to another, and he greatlyregretted that a stenographer had not been present to take it down.
Then how heavily, heavily did the weary hours pass away; and Curtis more than halfregretted that his friend O'Blunderbuss did not call upon him.
The magistrate, however, observed, that he felt convinced of George's guilt, and deeplyregretted the necessity there was to discharge him.
I even regretted having left the hulk, so miserable did I feel.
They were childless; and, in spite of their poverty, they often regretted that they had no offspring to become the object of their affection, and to comfort them when old age should overtake them.
It is to be regretted that his heroic services were not on the side of the Union, but the conditions which placed him in hostility to the flag of the United States are forever removed.
His death is regretted by all the many who knew him; the more so by those who knew him well.
He died suddenly in his own house, playing at ombre, as many of his family had done, and was regretted by no person except Mdlle.
It is greatly to be regretted that she is not in the society of more virtuous persons, for she is herself naturally very good; but she is spoiled by bad company.
Annihilation, he repeated, was his aim, and nothing short of it; and he must have regretted the absence of the six of the line in the Mediterranean, imperative as that had been.
I remember," says Colonel Stewart, "that Lord Nelson regretted Sir Hyde being on shore.
In times of failure people listened to this respectable looking fellow, and regretted that they had left home without having brought coppers with them.
In a few days I received a letter stating that want of time prevented him from passing judgment on my work, which he regretted he would have to return unread.
This slow travelling suited me for the time being, for we were having another fall of snow, and I half regretted having left Montreal, although, day after day I was certainly getting a little nearer to the gold of Klondyke.
One lady, who did not recognise the house of Salvation under the address of 96 Southwark Street, regretted that she had already given her letters away, but advised me to go to the Salvation Army, who would most certainly attend to my wants.
It pleased her to tears when a friend saw a likeness between John Bunyan and myself, and she regretted that she saw no prospect of ever tracing a resemblance between our hearts.
I regretted much that I was unable to visit in crop-time one of these factories, and see the working of a system which seems to contain one of the best elements of the co- operative principle.
Only we regretted that, in obedience to the supposed demands of civilisation, and of a rise in life, she had discarded the graceful and modest Hindoo dress of her ancestresses, for a French bonnet and all that accompanies it.
The two first settlersregretted the days when the house was a mere palm-thatched hut, where they sat on stumps which would not balance, and ate potted meat with their pocket knives.
I have heard it regrettedthat we restored Martinique to the French, and kept St. Lucia instead.
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