"Ruefully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... breakfast, and was ruefully preparing his lesson in his room, when he heard his name being called up the staircase. "Buller! I ...
— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough
... 1876. Two Dundee companions went with her to Liverpool. At the docks they saw going on board the steamer Ethiopia, by which she was to travel, a large number of casks of spirits for the West Coast. "Scores of casks!" she exclaimed ruefully, "and only one missionary!" ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... I am only a shabby drunkard, a disgrace to my cloth, am I not, Anastasia? Accordingly, I fail to perceive what old Aluric Floyer has to do with the matter in hand. He was reasonably virtuous, I suppose; putting aside a disastrous appetite for fruit, so was Adam: but, viewing their descendants, I ruefully admit that in each ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell
... riot—had performed the frog's march to the baggage-car, the raving saloon-keeper had been instructed to send his bill of damages to the chief quartermaster across the bridge, the conductor had signalled "Go ahead," and the young officer, ruefully scanning the wreck of his new fatigue uniform, was clambering on the platform of the sleeper, when he saw that the blood was dripping from the corporal's hand, despite the big ...
— Under Fire • Charles King
... entirely declined to be convinced. "I think I did convince him at last," said Baker with some pride, when long after telling the story to the present writer. "And then he gave them up?" "Oh, no," said Sir William ruefully, "he wore those claret-coloured trousers to the very end." That episode probably belonged to the ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... King, she was obliged to be more careful, but to change one's disposition is impossible, and she has loathed and insulted me ever since. Her husband, who himself probably taught her to do so, one day tried to make apologies for what he ruefully termed her reprehensible conduct. "There, there, it doesn't matter," I said to him; "it is easier to offend me than to deceive me. Allow me to quote to you the speech of Mademoiselle de Montpensier, 'You had a charming and accomplished wife, ...
— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan
... intrigues; we must not protest against these things, but simply not care for them; we must not be burdensome to others in any way; we must not be shocked or offended or disgusted, but tolerate, forgive, welcome, share. We must treat life in an eager, light-hearted way, not ruefully or drearily or solemnly. The old language in which the Gospel comes to us, the formality of the antique phrasing, the natural tendency to make it dignified and hieratic, disguise from us how utterly natural and simple it all is. I do not think that reverence and tradition and awe have done us any ...
— Joyous Gard • Arthur Christopher Benson
... Katy, laughing rather ruefully. She had taken no fancy to Mrs. Nipson, and did not enjoy the ...
— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge
... ever to belong, now," he said ruefully. "Yeh gotta be borned to it. Gee! Wouldn't I look funny in wite pants, an' one o' dem dinky, little ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... bars of soap and seventy-five microscopes!" he exclaimed ruefully. "Let's be layin' fine stress on ...
— Sandy • Alice Hegan Rice
... ruefully. He did not know much about women, but he had read somewhere that they were capable of injustice. She had plenty of spirit, anyhow, for all that she looked ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... he said, somewhat ruefully, indicating his dinner jacket tightly constricted beneath the arms. "Already I've had to slit my waistcoat down the back. Poor old Peddle will have an apoplectic fit when he sees it. I've grown a bit since these elegant rags were ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... would like that," said Jack Morris, suddenly coming up behind him. He was very hot, and was breathing fast, but his manner was as cool as if he had never left the group about me. He had beaten Tom, who was sitting on a box, ruefully surveying a hole in his jacket. "You see," he went on, gaspingly, "if you call him 'Ugly Joe,' her ladyship will say that you are wounding the dear dog's feelings. 'Beautiful Joe,' would be ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders
... little good advice satisfy you," Crozier remarked ruefully. "It will seem like old times," ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... conversation, used to ransack the premises until I found it. Eventually it became a game of skill between the hider and the seeker. I can now see the old woman's eyes over the rims of her spectacles as she laid her knitting down and ruefully regarded the development of the search. But at this game, owing to the restricted area, ...
— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully
... Wesson was looking somewhat ruefully at the score sheet. "I owe you eighteen shillings," he said. "Shall I pay you, now, or shall we settle up in a ...
— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse
... a shout, flung down their traps, and made for the water to wash hands and faces, only Ted looked ruefully at ...
— Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... horses—three of which he tied to trees to be ready for them, while he loaded the fourth with the most valuable of the arms and garments of the slain. Meanwhile Glumm groaned, and, sitting up, rubbed his head ruefully. ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne
... it as I do." She echoed his laugh ruefully. "I'm still as much at sea as I was last week. I couldn't tell ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine
... March Hare ruefully. "It's more than terrible, it's rotten. Here I've been holding out for $1,250 for mine, and these duffers want to go in for a cut rate that will ...
— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs
... back with him into his house, cried out to some one whom I could not see that he would be engaged all morning, and brought me into a little dusty chamber full of books and documents. Here he sate down, and bade me be seated; though I thought he looked a little ruefully from his clean chair to my muddy rags. "And now," says he, "if you have any business, pray be brief and come swiftly to the point. Nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo—do you understand that?" says he, ...
— Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson
... He smiled rather ruefully. "Of course, there is scarcely anybody on the lot who hasn't a picture play in his or her pocket. I was possibly unwise last week to offer five hundred dollars spot cash for a play I could make use of, for now I suppose there will ...
— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson
... went on, ruefully; "they are the first thing I heard or saw when I got down, and they almost made me wish I'd come down with a run! Well, it's no use talking about it, I only thought you'd know. It was the usual smack in the eye, I suppose, only nicely put and all that. She ...
— No Hero • E.W. Hornung
... tell mother about it!" And as he spoke he looked ruefully at his shoes and at his sister's gown, on which the mud was rapidly drying, and which looked as if it were made of pasteboard. The little girl, not more than four years old, taking Elsli's other hand, said softly, "Do come ...
— Gritli's Children • Johanna Spyri
... back—I'm in a perfectly adorable humour. It was dreadfully mean of me to be half-angry with him, wasn't it? He's in there, now, working his dear old brain to pieces, and I'm out here with no brain at all," she said ruefully. ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon
... Ann, smiling to herself ruefully, thinking of to-morrow's dinner, "talk about folks ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... the captain, looking ruefully at his hat. "It looks like a cullender; but, Moseley, your gun don't scatter well: a dozen shot have gone through ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... I that no such master came to release me," said Bradford laughing ruefully as he rubbed his leg and ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... 'em," he answered ruefully. "I lost a hundred meggs on him Toosday se'nnight, at Windsor races; and I had time to take the pattern of them boots while he was crawling in, a ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... herself! but, alas! her blue eyes Still a pupil did ruefully lack; And who shall describe the terrifick surprise That seized the Paint-King, when, behold, he descries Not a speck on ...
— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis
... "Trouble," said Struve, ruefully; "well, I wonder if I did. Miss Chester brought me your instructions O.K. and I got busy right off. But, tell me this—how did you get the girl to act ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach
... it, except to advertise my shoe business," said Terwilliger, ruefully. "The items in the papers at home that arise from my occupancy of this house, together with the social cinch it gives me, are worth the money; but I'm hanged if it's worth my while to pay back salaries ...
— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs
... Mary!" said Ethel ruefully. "I am really very troubled about her. Her sister and brother-in-law lost all their money through that recent bank failure, and Dr. Croft took it badly. His losses seemed to harden him. Declaring that he could not ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... of the way? Oh that won't do! We've managed better than that in America. Why I myself!"—and he looked at her ruefully enough, but enjoying too his idea that he might embody the social scandal or point to the darkest drama of the Searles. "Suppose I should turn out a better Searle than you—better than you nursed here in ...
— A Passionate Pilgrim • Henry James
... sighed. "Well, I shall 'ave to go back to bed again, then," he said, ruefully. "So long, mother. Hope you have a pleasant time at ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... but that doesn't mean that I can paint with it," sighed Bertram, ruefully eyeing the tiny bit of fresh color his canvas showed for ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... it is I am always getting into scrapes," the lad said half ruefully when the laugh subsided. "I am sure I don't want to get into them, colonel, and really I have never gone out of my way to do so, unless you call my march to help the Count of Mansfeld going out of my ...
— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty
... as if we could make it," said Billy dubiously, shaking his head and regarding the big leak ruefully, "but I suppose we ...
— The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code • John Henry Goldfrap, AKA Captain Wilbur Lawton
... Gibault," observed March ruefully, "they've almost sawed through the skin o' my ankle. I've no left foot at all, as far ...
— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne
... money was such a scarce article at the Parsonage that she did not know when she would have the chance of accumulating so much again. There were only two threepenny bits and a penny left to rattle when she shook the box, so she sighed ruefully as she locked it, and put it back in its place on the top shelf of the bookcase. She hoped Netta would not forget to bring the half-sovereign she had promised to lend, though how the loan was ever to be repaid she could not imagine. For to-day ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... ruefully. "I know my papers weren't up to standard. I believe that red-haired girl will be one. She ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... believe it," grunted the juror; yet then confessed somewhat ruefully, "however, he is unfortunate ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... myself for the inevitable question, and so answered ruefully, "I must have tripped ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... "I fear," said Lemercier, ruefully, "that my costume will not look so well a day or two hence. I have just had news that will no doubt seem very glorious—in the news papers. But then newspapers ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... dreadfully prosaic and boring. After he had gone out again to transact further business, Lady Bridget went to bed and squirmed between the cotton sheets, remembering ruefully the luxuries of Government House. Never in all her life had she slept between cotton sheets or washed herself in an enamelled tin basin. The noise in the bar became intolerable. She could hear the swear-words quite distinctly. They were disgusting. ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed
... wonderful self-containedness and strength was always a marvel, sometimes a reproach, to him. Beside her, he seemed to himself a light creature, drawn hither and thither by this interest and by that, tangled in the fleeting shows of things—the toy and plaything of circumstance. He thought ruefully and humbly, as he wandered on through the dusk, of his own lack of inwardness: 'Everything divides me from Thee!' he could have cried in St. Augustine's manner. 'Books, and friends, and work—all seem to hide Thee from me. Why am I so passionate ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Mr. Jones, looking ruefully at the patch on my pantaloons, which just then I endeavored to hide with ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville
... he can pay for it!" said Doris, with plaintive emphasis, as she ruefully turned over the costly volumes which the ...
— A Great Success • Mrs Humphry Ward
... Rebekah, led forward from a semicircle of courtiers by a backing Silver Stick, approached within four feet of the Throne, and after the protracted humiliation of her curtsey, said ruefully: "Our party have failed, my Lord King, to obtain audience for our humble petition till ...
— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel
... few more meagre items only sufficed to stretch his income to a total of one million three hundred and thirty thousand far the two years, against an expenditure calculated at near eleven millions. "Thus, there are nine millions, less three thousand ducats, deficient," he concluded ruefully (and making a mistake in his figures in his own favor of six hundred and sixty-three thousand besides), "which I may look for in the sky, or try to ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... down and tied in big knots," she said ruefully, "but Sophie will just have to do them all over again when she gets up. Oh, dear, where are my boots, I wonder? I can't see them anywhere about. Well, I must go out in these, I suppose;" and sitting down on the floor she put on a pair of dainty Queen Anne shoes, with satin bows and ...
— Naughty Miss Bunny - A Story for Little Children • Clara Mulholland
... long skate you have had!" said Susy Fairbairn ruefully, for all that she was a good-tempered girl and not disposed to measure her neighbor's wheat by her own bushel. But this was a special matter; for Edgar Harrowby was the pride of the place, and they took count of his doings as of their local prince, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various
... pennies, inserted the ticket in their place, and returned the purse to her handbag, which had been lying on the seat beside her. The inspector had now boarded the car; she had opened her purse to take out the ticket, and, lo, the gold had gone! It was a most embarrassing situation. I was ruefully speculating as to how I should again face my congregation after being shadowed by such a dark suspicion. When, as abruptly as it had arisen, the mystery happily cleared. With the most profuse apologies, ...
— Mushrooms on the Moor • Frank Boreham
... others, and all sat up. By this time the match had gone out, but Giant promptly struck another and then lit the camp lantern. Whopper gazed at the hole in the tent ruefully. ...
— Young Hunters of the Lake • Ralph Bonehill
... you would, if I was queen. But I doesn't want you to treat me, Jim, leastways not this turn; I wants you to come for a walk, dear. I've a bit of news for you. It's business, Jim," she added, somewhat ruefully, "or I ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... laughed Madelene, ruefully. "But honestly, dear, you look as if you'd lost your last friend instead ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... ruefully. "I never had an appetite yet that it didn't meet with the disappointment of it's young life. Now, who do ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin
... didn't know I'd grown such a lot," said Peggy ruefully, "but you can let down the tucks, mother," she ...
— Peggy in Her Blue Frock • Eliza Orne White
... laughing ruefully as he re-pocketed his weapons. "This comes o' harbouring a lousy rogue as balks good liquor. The man as won't take good rum hath the head of a chicken, the heart of a yellow dog, and the bowels of a w-worm, and bone-rot him, says ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... puts it up to Mr. Otter again," said Elsie, ruefully, turning down the street. "And I'm sorry, too, for I'd much rather make my way ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry
... Desmond laughed ruefully to himself. Indeed, he mused, things looked that way. What would the Chief say if he could see his prize young man, his white-headed boy, sitting sentimentalizing by the fire over a woman who was, by her own confession, practically an accredited German agent? Desmond thrust ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams
... gleaned all the evidence of truth from the chaff to which we are sometimes treated, a lively member of the company remarked ruefully: ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland
... traveller. It seems entirely given over to trivial and alien interest. Betting on horses has never reached such dimensions. Whilst the street-criers of Belgrade keep calling "Politika, Politika!" and the attention of Berlin is ruefully pinned down to Reparations, and Paris is dignified and serious and national in both newspapers and conversation, you hear nothing in the streets of London but, "What's the latest, Bill?" and "I can ...
— Europe—Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham
... said the boy ruefully. "But don't cry, Tiz dear. Tell me what to do. It makes me so miserable to ...
— Brave and True - Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others • George Manville Fenn
... of his holiday week in comparative freedom at home. He was, however, too proud to beg such permission; and not one word from Prince Michael did he receive. It was, then, not till the very hour that his companions were gayly rushing off to their various conveyances of departure, that Ivan, standing ruefully in the snow-filled court-yard, perceived Piotr tramping through the outer gate, looking about him, undecided ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... "Gentlemen, we have used up the time allotted. Will you make arrangements with Mr. Abbott for a longer conference, to-morrow? Come back with the proofs!" He smiled, and the gentlemen from Idaho smiled in return, but a little ruefully. The last one had not turned his back when Enoch began an attack ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... to his senses, he cursed the English and all belonging to them with right goodwill. "Now verily," he said to himself, as he turned his face ruefully towards Liddesdale, "'twill be a hundred years and more ere anyone finds me fighting with a man who ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... mention it,' said Mr. Tom, going to the door. And then he added, ruefully, 'Now I've got to go and hunt up my friend; and tell him that my own sister has jilted him. You've no idea what ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black
... asked, as she went down to where the hero of the catastrophe sat on the bottom stair, ruefully rubbing his elbow, but who now picked up his hat and the ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... it," said my father, ruefully; "only those doves, when they are small, are a very noisy sort of birds—non talium avium cantos somnum reducent. However, it might have been worse. Leda ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... up a corner in oil," said Frederick, ruefully, as he watched the packers at work boxing his most ...
— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs
... whirl of thought and emotion—the second dinner-bell rang. I offered her my arm, but I could not refrain from a shudder as her white hand touched it. When I saw that hand last it was most assuredly dropping the little burden into the sea. Lance looked at us most ruefully, so that she laughed ...
— The Tragedy of the Chain Pier - Everyday Life Library No. 3 • Charlotte M. Braeme
... loth to depart, until Captain Cooper, in a stern but respectful tone, touched him on the shoulder, and said, I know not with what correctness, being ignorant of the Spanish language, "Senor 'Bispo! Senor 'Bispo!" on which summons the poor old man, looking ruefully round him once more, put his square cap under his arm, tucked up his long black petticoats, so as to show his purple stockings and jolly fat calves, and went trembling down the steps towards the boat. The good old man! ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray
... sixteen dollars!" he said ruefully. "I've counted them one hundred and sixteen times, backwards, forwards and upside down, these last three days, and I can't get them to grow a ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson
... replied, ruefully. "But I got to thinking how I'll be out after wild horses.... And I'm afraid something might happen. ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey
... assented Jay ruefully, "though it seems sacrilege to say so, for I know these things better than I know myself. But Truth—or Untruth, what's the use of words like that when ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson
... three whales are as good whales as were ever published in Wapping, at any rate; and his stump as unquestionable a stump as any you will find in the western clearings. But, though for ever mounted on that stump, never a stump-speech does the poor whaleman make; but, with downcast eyes, stands ruefully ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... am getting a great deal," said Mr. Lyon, rather ruefully. "I'm trying to find out where. I ought ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... little dreaming of the revolution which his scrape was destined to effect in Templeton, was still sitting where Dick had left him, ruefully meditating on his near prospect of incarceration. The vision of Dick and Heathcote advancing upon him by no means tended to allay the ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed
... said Nan ruefully, "I would get right off this train and go back to Tillbury, much as I have counted on this trip. No, honey," she added, laughing at her own extravagance, "there's no need of your getting excited, for I have no idea that we shall meet Linda at Palm Beach. Only she has the ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... goes at half-past six," he remarked ruefully. "But you won't catch me waiting for it ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... smiling ruefully, "it is certain that I shall achieve something yet, because—I never shall ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al
... other day. Didn't have time to stop below; and, besides, I was saving my strength for your partner here." He looked at Welton ruefully. "I thought I'd come up and get that water-rights matter all fixed up in a few minutes, and get ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... assented Peter John somewhat ruefully. "But old Splinter will understand," he added quickly. "Splinter will know I just left out a 't', and he won't ...
— Winning His "W" - A Story of Freshman Year at College • Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
... easy they overlooked it." He smiled ruefully. I'd hate to be arrested just now when I'm getting to be ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... habits. But if he is with you and away from the bad people he meets with here, I am sure he will soon forget the bad things he has learned.' "Dear lady, God grant you may never know," said Jack ruefully. ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
... Braun said ruefully. "I say that he is reacting as would be expected. As the average man in the street would react given the opportunity to seize almost unlimited power, and with ...
— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
... three bears at this camp, and we've got nothing! We don't dare kill even a squirrel, though I'm sure we could get some sort of game in this rough country not far back." John spoke ruefully. ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough
... 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 ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... "Well," ruefully, "they had a true Siberian trail all the way; it was clear and cold, and there was not a single blizzard. And the whole North knows that our rangy half-breeds are at their best when there are storms, and the route is rough and broken. The luck of the trail," sighing, "but ...
— Baldy of Nome • Esther Birdsall Darling
... the small flagged path outside, he flung open the iron gate which gave on to the damp pavement. But there he hesitated. The coppers in his pocket seemed to have shrunk in number, and he remembered ruefully how far Ellen could ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... leading articles of the morning paper. Mrs. Parsons sat on her usual chair, knitting, and she greeted him with a loving smile. James saw that they were both pleased with his few awkward words, which still rang in his own ears as shoddy and sentimental, and he tasted, somewhat ruefully, the delight of making the kind ...
— The Hero • William Somerset Maugham
... say," responded Clint ruefully. "He's playing better than I've ever seen him play all Fall. There he goes now! Let's see if ...
— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour
... terrible even in its fall, whilst under the dejection of spirit and flesh, which naturally followed his eyes, by turns, cast down towards his struck standard, or piteously lifted to Louisa, seemed to require at her hands what he had so sensibly parted from to her, and now ruefully missed. But the vigour of nature, soon returning, dissipated the blast of faintness which the common law of enjoyment had subjected him to; and now his basket re-became his main concern, which I ...
— Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) • John Cleland
... 'Mr. Landale will want to know of this,' says the fat one; 'though it is too late,' he says." And Rene added ruefully: "I have great fear. The captain is not at the end of his pains, if Mr. ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... keep the reserve intact. The administration, indeed, was all but helpless. Paper presented for redemption in gold had to be paid out to meet expenses and was then turned in for gold again. Hence, as Cleveland ruefully reminded Congress, "we have an endless chain in operation constantly depleting the Treasury's gold and never near a final rest." On April 22, 1893, the reserve fell momentarily below $100,000,000 and later in the year it was apparent that the reduction was likely to become permanent. By January, ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley
... steak!" said the man, shaking his head ruefully, and turning upon me a doleful eye, "a steak!" he repeated; "of course—it would be; I s'pose you'd turn up your nose at 'am and eggs—it's ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... that ofttimes contact with an alien race did require long and patient handling. But between study and experiencing the situation himself there was a gulf, and he thought somewhat ruefully that he had much to learn before he could meet such a situation with Van Rycke's unfailing patience and aplomb. The Cargo-master seemed in nowise tired by his wasted day and Dane knew that Van would probably sit up half the night, going over ...
— Plague Ship • Andre Norton
... must guard against getting 'set in our ways.' Camp-life is certainly a good corrective for that." Mrs. Clyde smiled rather ruefully. ...
— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs
... shook her head ruefully, and the Professor laughed loudly and stroked his beard in ...
— The Poison Belt • Arthur Conan Doyle
... then, we must get the next out. No time to lose. Come! Keep shoving the pick in, and I'll scratch the bolt down with my knife. See? It's nothing." They pull the drawer out and set it on the floor, and Roberts ruefully contemplates it. ...
— Evening Dress - Farce • W. D. Howells
... fell into silence while she watched him from beneath her long lashes. He reached back ruefully and drew out his pistol and twirled the cylinder ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... and Bettina were getting ready for the drive according to Mr. Sumner's appointment, Bettina, who was vigorously brushing her brown suit, heard a sigh from her sister, and looking up saw her ruefully examining her ...
— Barbara's Heritage - Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters • Deristhe L. Hoyt
... so much about the mischief," said Grace, eyeing her empty chocolate box ruefully, "if they would only ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... has done us good—in more ways than one. In fact it's done us up brown." And Bud laughed a little ruefully. ...
— The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River - or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers • Willard F. Baker
... a fellow," Clive continues, laughing ruefully. "You see I must talk about it to somebody. I shall die if I don't. Sometimes, sir, I rise up in my might and I defy her lightning. The sarcastic dodge is the best: I have borrowed that from you Pen, old boy. That puzzles her: that would beat her if I could but go on with it. But there comes a ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... till Midwinter had explained the mystery of his unexpected appearance in every particular that Allan could be prevailed on to say a word about himself. When he did speak, he shook his head ruefully, and subdued the hearty loudness of his voice, with a preliminary look round to see if the servants ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... another time," he said, when he had finished, rather ruefully surveying his handiwork. "And now I'll call Hassan and get tea, and while we're having it I'll tell you about our camp in the Fayyum. To think of ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens
... I eat so much, senor," Pablo answered, ruefully. "Truly it seems as though this belly of mine never could be filled. I try valiantly to eat little and so to save my money; but my belly cries out for more and yet more food—and so my money goes. Although I make so much, I can scarcely save a medio in a whole week, when what El Sabio must ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier |
