All right," said Zeke, remembering his potato patch and looking ruefully at the ascending sun as he hurried back to his work.
I thought he was at his tricks," said the Boy ruefully some hours after.
He grinned ruefully as he did so and seemed to hear Al saying, "'Most missed a pelt there, Ted.
Ted grinned ruefully as his daydream faded and he went to call his father to dinner.
He noted, a little ruefully it must be said, that almost every gentleman guest was attired after the conventional fashion he had predicted; but a moment's reasoning repelled any threatening embarrassment with scorn.
The highwayman sat before me on the ground, ruefully handling his skull.
He lookedruefully at Grace, who listened with anxious unintelligence.
She gazed ruefully at the garment, then down at the blue flowering heaped about her ankles.
He got his pipe to going, sat down, and frowned ruefully at the candle.
Sitting that night upon the edge of his bed, with his hands in his pockets and a pipe in his mouth, staring moodily upon the carpet, Peter had thought ruefully upon his shattered fortune.
He laughed ruefully as he read the simple but laborious message from Jacob von Blitz.
In the dark ages," said he so ruefully that her smile grew.
Those who had not already been driven into it were ruefully or gladly looking forward to it.
A few of the Rumpers, seeing what had occurred, ruefully left the House, to return no more; but most remained and amalgamated themselves easily with the more numerous new comers.
Ere long he reported ruefully to Goethe that his first act was already longer than three acts of 'Iphigenie'.
Lawyer Lincoln looked ruefully down at his clothes, then placed all the rails back on the fence as he had found them.
She looked ruefully at her own short, stubby, unintelligent hands, that so perfectly reflected her character in that marvellous way hands have.
The superintendent gazed rather ruefully from unblemished handkerchief to cheek and back again.
She went, and Margaret heard her sniffing along the entry; heard, and told herself she had no business to notice such things; and went back rather ruefully to her buttonholes.
Merton lifted his black head, and looked ruefully at Margaret.
Then we'll have the chasing to do all over again," ruefully observed Nort.
He glanced ruefully down at his now soiled and torn garments.
And he looked ruefully at a few coins he had pulled from his pocket.
Yet it was almost dark when Cyrus stumbled over to the corner, picked up the parcel, and carried it ruefully away to the shed-chamber.
In his flight he had lost his unsold papers, and he felt ruefully in his pocket as he went down the street, pulling his rags about him as much from shame as to keep out the cold.
He grinned ruefully when the thought struck him that, if the bald truth were known, he himself did not have much more than the price of one joyride in his own machine!
Unless we take up a collection amongst the Injuns cached out in the brush," he grinned ruefully to himself.
Peter on being awakened looked ruefully about him, then sprang up and eagerly demanded his money.
Puzzled and alarmed, shaking his head ruefully as he recalled the carouse of the silent, he hobbled down the mountain as fast as he might for the grip of the rheumatism on his knees and elbows, and entered his native village.
Phœbe had assented, though she thought ruefully of the deficiency of the English language, which has but one form for singular you and plural you.
She gave a convincing nod of her head and rubbed a hand ruefully across the grotesquely decorated cheek.
She sighed, and then smiled rather ruefully as she thought of David and his smart maids and motors and his desire to turn her into a modern girl.
The time of night, you mean," said Mhor ruefully "In ten minutes I'll have to go to bed.
Garrick was standing ruefully beside the roulette wheel at which so many fortunes had been dissipated.
It is fortunate I have it now," I answered, looking ruefullyat the battered rim where Nick had missed the skin in his ardor.
Upon this people looked ruefullyat her and at each other, as if the question had given them a glimpse into the darkness in which she was sitting.
But while he was ruefully contemplating it one day, a happy idea struck him.
Most ruefully did he help Dan to carry the candidate undergraduate's library as far as the Town; nor could he take more than a downcast pleasure in Mr. Polymathers's farewell gift to him of the raggedest Euclid.
