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While I had been regretting their misfortunes, they had both thought of me as the party to be pitied; each fancying his own fortune more happy than mine.

From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by Cooper, James Fenimore

Ever since he had been a master-printer on his own account, he had been regretting the fact.

From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Zangwill, Louis

"Before you came I had been regretting that you happened to be out to-day."

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

They had been regretting the effect of the fright of the evening upon their children—Vi especially as the one predisposed to undue excitement of the brain—yet hoping it might not prove lasting.

From Elsie's Motherhood by Finley, Martha

All the afternoon he had been regretting his hasty words, and reproaching himself for want of forbearance towards his impetuous girl-wife.

From More about Pixie by Groome, William H. C.