Example Sentences

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And finally, producing a half-rueful grin, he realized that most of all he wanted everything to be normal.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

He turned to his companion with a half-rueful spark of laughter in his gray eyes.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The elder man looked up at his only son with a kindly, half-rueful expression.

From The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie

He smiled, still in that strange, half-rueful fashion.

From Greatheart by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

He took his coat and began to wriggle into it, surveying her meantime with a smile half-speculative, half-rueful.

From The Knave of Diamonds by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)