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Example sentences for "rued"

Lexicographically close words:
rudimental; rudimentary; rudiments; rudis; rudraksha; rueful; ruefully; ruego; rufa; rufescent
  1. A vague foreboding seized her; time and again in the past she had seen the Lean Man knit his brows in thought, and some one of his moorside foes had always rued it later in the day.

  2. Beneath its guidance, in their prime of days Scipio and Pompey triumph'd; and that hill, Under whose summit thou didst see the light, Rued its stern bearing.

  3. And there is rued the stratagem, that Troy Of her Palladium spoil'd.

  4. CI Sore rued his fate the monarch beset with twofold care; Still fear'd he most lest Siegfried should chance to perish there, For now the puissant damsel had all but ta'en his life.

  5. Those, whom they left behind them, soon rued that e'er they went.

  6. Had any other done it, he should have rued it straight.

  7. Therewith the strife was parted, so that no one fought, which mightily rued the queen.

  8. The original is obscure here; the meaning is, 'when he heard with what message they were come, he rued the haughtiness of the Burgundians'.

  9. He gave it to his wife and rued it sore in after time.

  10. Their journey rued him sore; he weened that Rudeger wist it, and had told them the tale.

  11. Kriemhild saw them armed, which rued her sore.

  12. This the fiddler saw; greatly he rued the sight.

  13. This King Etzel saw, and sore enow it rued him.

  14. The worsted knights rode back to Denmark, nor had the Saxons fought so well that one could give them aught of praise, and this the heroes rued full sore.

  15. It rued the king that he had held his peace so long.

  16. Full sore it rued the queen when this she heard.

  17. I since have rued it," spake the noble wife.

  18. When the Burgundians were come to the land, old Hildebrand (1) of Berne did hear the tale, and sore it rued him.

  19. When the margravine heard the message, a deal she rued it; weeping beseemed her at the thought whether she should gain a lady as afore.

  20. Hagen counseled the journey, but later it rued him sore.

  21. Like many another man, this scamp, unskilled in thievery, had no sooner escaped the urgent danger of arrest than he rued his impulsive fall to the temptation of a bag of clinking coins.

  22. It depends upon what you mean by accomplishment," he answered, so mildly that I felt more rued than ever.

  23. It was that curious performance of Mr. Rued which caused the first outbreak.

  24. Out of one of the huts, again bound hand and foot, Mr. Rued was being carried by six stalwarts.

  25. Ralph Rokeby with full good will, The fryers of Richmond he gave her till, This sew to mend their fare: Fryer Middleton by his name, Would needs bring the fat sew hame That rued him since full sare.

  26. Then bitterly the Sheriff rued the day that first he meddled with Robin Hood, for all men laughed at him and many ballads were sung by folk throughout the country, of how the Sheriff went to shear and came home shorn to the very quick.

  27. Then the Sheriff turned away with a sore and troubled heart, and sadly he rued his fine show of retainers, for he saw that the King was angry because he had so many men about him and yet could not enforce the laws.

  28. You know the story, how "She fell in love with a false priest, and rued it ever mair"?

  29. She rued more than that, for she was the mother of Lady Caroline Lamb; and if anything more need be said of her misfortunes, let it be added that she was sister to Georgiana of Devonshire.

  30. A's good lady tired of hearing her husband nicknamed the Italian, and it went back to the painter, who partly paid with it a debt to the Pilgrim widow, who long since rued her acquisition.

  31. If those marauders had found us unprotected, young woman, you would have rued the day.

  32. Arrayed in the Southern uniform, of which scouts always had a supply, and favored by the sleepy condition of the guard, one of the scouts had played the trick which Whately rued so bitterly.

  33. The rebel at Port Royal felt The Unity overawe, And rued the spell.

  34. Because you married a bad man, and rued the day, it is no reason that I should do the same.

  35. His dark face turned ashen-grey and his great eyes looked at me in tearful enquiry, but so grievously that I already rued my unseemly deed.

  36. I was afraid you had rued your promise and were not coming," said Marion, springing forth from the door-way eagerly, to greet me.

  37. Since the father of the Duke of Athol had sold his fiscal rights to the English Crown the son had rued the bargain.

  38. And tho' sharp, I ween, was her mocking yet her words was he fain to hear, Nor rued he the bitter speeches that rang sweet to his longing ear.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.