"De niggers wuz all monst'us sorry w'en de match wuz bust' up, fer now Mars Jeems got wusser 'n he wuz befo' he sta'ted sweethea'tin'.

But now, alas, poor Grandfather Would stand but sorry chances Of passionately telling her His bosom's sweetest fancies.

Viking's sons, as tall and strong as he, were inclined to be rather reckless of their opponents' welfare, and, judging from the following account, translated from the old saga, the players were often left in as sorry a condition as after a modern game.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An' fellow-mortal!

I'm sorry that it must be so sad and sorry an end.

Why make ye so sorry a figure in my relation, who made up to meto my childish eyesthe mythology of the Temple?

You sorry fool!

Commynes was destined to learn how difficult and sorry a thing it is to have to promote a policy of which you disapprove.

No one admires a great actor in a great play more than I do, and one of the few things that ever makes me sorry my work is what it is is that I can sae seldom sit me doon in a stall in a theatre and watch a play through.