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But most of them must be delivered from on the peninsula, where Bob is standing, casting a rueful eye on the whole show.

“You can pick which lines can come out,” Spitzer said with a rueful smile.

Gwynne regarded the thin sole of his house shoe with so rueful a countenance that the judge laughed outright.

Pale, lean, taciturn and somewhat deaf, he bore much resemblance to the Knight of the Rueful Countenance.

By this time he was in a wholly different mood; angry with himself, and full of rueful thought about his wife.

At the rueful outcry, Clifford turned, just in time to see the bobbing bundle disappear in the muddy water.

In order to carry out my wife's orders, I had to disentangle Susan from Liosha's embrace and pack her off rueful to the nursery.