154 adjectives to describe regret

I feel certain he would be glad to pay his respects to this party, for he often expressed his sincere regrets at having been employed on a service that exposed the ladies to so much peril and delay.

And, if no other occupation be provided for the mind of man, it carves out employment for itself in vain regrets and gloomy forebodingsin jealousy, envy, and the indulgence of every hateful and tormenting passion: hence the proverb,'If you want corn, cultivate your soil; if you want weeds, let it alone.'

The rigid formality of the place suffocated her; the prayers and meals, the lessons and the walks, which were arranged with the regularity of a convent, oppressed her almost beyond endurance; and she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of her father's old studio with bitter regret.

Mrs. Snow echoed the words, and for a moment all thought pitifully of the woman whose life had given so little happiness, whose age had won so little reverence, and whose death would cause so little regret.

I cannot tell how long I stood looking at her, studying the candid, sweet face, which surely had germs in it of everything that was good and beautiful; and sorry, with a profound regret, that she had died and never carried these promises to fulfillment.

The King, having made his decision, said, "It is with the keenest regret that I separate myself from you, but necessity and the safety of the monarchy demand this sacrifice.

To the infinite regret of the brigade, indeed of the whole of General Allenby's Army, one of the officers killed that day was the Hon.

The soft voice was full of a genuine regret.

A day it was when I could bear Some fond regrets to entertain; With so much happiness to spare, 15 I could not feel a pain.

I am sure I felt it, and all felt it with me, last night; though some of my companions affected rather to manifest an exhilaration at the birth of the coming year, than any very tender regrets for the decease of its predecessor.

July 14, 1840 MY DEAR MADAM, It is with unfeigned regret that I perceive that you and I are not likely to understand each other.

" The last word was uttered in a tone of intense regret, and his brown cheek reddened as he added hastily, to hide some embarrassment.

O.T. quitted our household carrying with him the passionate regrets of the more youthful members.

General Meade had disappeared like a phantom, and was beyond pursuit, to the extreme regret and disappointment of General Lee, who halted his troops, in great discouragement, at Parker's Store.

They saw that the case was hopeless, and as theirs was altogether a practical duty, no time was lost in useless regrets.

As I watched him, even through my anger I felt a vague regret, a touch of pitypity for a life that was wasted in spite of its possibilities, in boasting and blackguardry.

When intelligence of the decease of De Luynes was communicated to the King he did not even affect the slightest regret, and the courtiers at once perceived that the demise of the man upon whom he had lavished so many and such unmerited distinctions was regarded by Louis as a well-timed release.

"Oh-h!" murmured Kaviak with an accent of polite regret.

But it is the function of the critic to criticise, and we may be permitted to express a mild regret that our native school, though by no means excluded, does not make so good a show as its energy and talents would seem to warrant.

"I attended the meeting last night, Mr. Effingham," Aristabulus commenced, "agreeably to our arrangement, and I feel the utmost regret at being compelled to lay the result before a gentleman for whom I entertain so profound a respect.

The suggestion of suicide, however, he dismisses at oncewith a momentary regret, it is truebut he dismisses itas against the will of God to whom he appeals in his misery.

And evening slowly goes away, leaving the beautiful pure face with evident regret, but lighting up the kind blue eyes, and golden hair, and delicate cheek, with a last vagrant gleam.

That we cannot to-day gaze upon the classic lineaments of her who welded such a facile pen, is a source of the most poignant regret.

Oriana saw his sadness; and feltas she often had done before on similar occasionsa pang of painful regret, and even of jealousy, towards those much-loved relatives whom her husband still so deeply regretted.

I have been sitting the last hour by myself, and have fancied that time moved not with its usual swiftness,that the old year lingered with a sad regret, as if loath to pass away and let the new come in.

154 adjectives to describe  regret