She took a final look at herself in the dimpled glass that gave back her figure in a series of waves and angles, and suddenly she gave a little half-rueful laugh.
Ishmael informed her of this with rather a rueful smile.
I may not always be a favorite there," Rachael said with a rueful smile.
After all," Rachael said presently, giving him a rueful glance, "what are the statistics?
Next day he appeared with a very rueful visage, and tendered Miss Bertram a letter.
Meg crept in upon her hands and knees, Bertram followed, and Dinmont, after giving a rueful glance toward the daylight, whose blessings he was abandoning, brought up the rear.
She was deep in her housekeeping accounts, adding and subtracting and, between whiles, regarding the result with a rueful frown.
Meg crept in upon her hands and knees, Bertram followed and Dinmont, after giving a rueful glance toward the daylight, whose blessings he was abandoning, brought up the rear.
Then the Britons fell into evil counsel; they took Vortiger anon, and delivered him all this kingdom; there was a well rueful thing, now was eft Vortiger king!
Andrew restored the rest of the documents to his pocket with yet another rueful laugh.
The devil's in it this time, and no mistake," answered his lordship with a rueful shake of his head.
It might be sport, under the right circumstances," said Jack, with a rueful laugh.
Oh, I didn't intend to have him as a pet," was the rueful answer of Jack.
Rueful to thee the thirst be wherewith cracks Thy tongue," the Greek said, "and the putrid water That hedges so thy paunch before thine eyes.
Hilbrough acquiesced with a rueful sense that he should be clumsy enough at entertaining a foreigner and a man of title.
I'd feel like a wretch to be taking pay and pretending to do it all for kindness," said Mrs. Beswick, with a rueful laugh.
Again the Thursday sermon at Mrs. Van Horne's came around, and again Phillida was restored to a white heat of zeal mingled with a rueful distrust of her own power to hold herself to the continuous pursuit of her ideal.
Princess Micomicona this minute, and I should be a count at least; for no less was to be expected, as well from the goodness of my master, him of the Rueful Countenance, as from the greatness of my services.
His own head was swathed in a wet towel that almost hid his rueful grin.
I was diverted from this meditation, by the rueful groans of a great many souls that were under the lash, and the devil tyrannising over them with whips and scourges.
At which word, the old misers brake out into fresh rage and lamentation, tearing their flesh, with tooth and nail, in so rueful a manner, that I was no longer able to endure the spectacle.
You never see such a mess," he added, with an expression of rueful recollection.
A ruefulthing he did, and a more rueful thing befel him.
Christmas Day, with the most rueful aspect that ever greeted the broad, gay beams of the glorious sun.
With a rueful face I placed it on the breakfast table.
The old gentleman looked almost as rueful as Oliver when the key grated in the lock; and turned with a sigh to the book which had been the innocent cause of all this disturbance.
With a rueful smile, I directed that our original course be resumed, and once again we set off toward merry England.
She looked up into my face with a rueful expression.
Yes, in company with my sixteen-shooter rifle," said Giles Jackman, with a rueful countenance.
He saw that MacRummle had risen, and, with a ruefulexpression of face, was making insane and futile efforts to look at himself behind.
He turned to his companion with a half-rueful spark of laughter in his gray, eyes.
If that were true, it was Pleyel that had been hitherto immured in the opposite chamber; he whom my rueful fancy had depicted in so many ruinous and ghastly shapes; he whose footsteps had been listened to with such inquietude!
He could not even pass the city almshouse without giving it a rueful glance, as if destined to be his future abode.
