392 examples of regret to in sentences

And I should regret to believe," added Mr. BUMSTEAD, raising his voice as saw that the judiciary was about to interrupt"And I should really be loathe to believe that Judge SWEENEY was not perfectly sober when he did so.

Nothing, my lords, is more apparent, than that the real design of this bill, however its defenders may endeavour to conceal it in the mist of sophistry, is to lay only such a tax as may increase the revenue; and that they have no desire of suppressing that vice which may be made useful to their private purpose, nor feel any regret to fill the exchequer by the slaughter of the people.

[Hume] is really amiable: I always regret to him his unlucky principles, and he smiles at my faith; but I have a hope which he has not, or pretends not to have.

We regret to be beyond the reach of Mr. Ellis's interesting but unpublished work, detailing the particulars of this revolution.

But though there was this, that brought a little regret to us, there would be, time and again, some new thing that one told, that the other knew and could finish the telling of, to the gladness and amazement of both.

It is true he himself had none, but perhaps that was a regret to him.

"May it please the Court," returned Colonel Starbottle with dignity, ignoring the counsel, "the defendant's counsel will observe that he is already furnished with the matterwhich I regret to say he has treatedin the presence of the Courtand of his client, a deacon of the churchwither-great superciliousness.

The failure of the Government to appreciate the value of what was offered to them was always a source of deep regret to Morse.

I regret to be obliged to inform you that no convention for the settlement of the claims of our citizens upon Mexico has yet been ratified by the Government of that country.

For he was the object of regret to the state; he was in every one's mouth, the subject of every one's conversation.

"I regret to say, Mrs. Preston, that he has the smallpox.

There is the great idol which we have all heard about from the missionaries, and, I regret to say, some have been guilty of a good deal of misrepresentation and exaggeration.

" "It can't be too soon for your own safety, much as we shall regret to lose your company.

" "I regret to say, messieurs," observed the seigneur, with no abatement of his courtly manner, "that it is my belief that they have learned a lesson from our young friend here, and that they are knocking out the heads of the powder-barrels in the store-room.

What had been the sorrows of unmerited desertion and unkindness supported by conscious rectitude, compared with the degraded guilt, the hopeless anguish, that I then saw? I regret to say, I was last month nigh committing manslaughter; I broke down in the Strand and dislocated the shoulder of a rich old maid.

One can scarcely avoid looking back with regret to times when convictions of duty had such power, when Christian principle was carried out, whatever the cost.

[We must leave the reader here, although in dire suspenseand we regret to do so, because a beautiful incident followsto give the following exquisite sketch of the heroinea Swiss maiden.

The honourable member, whom we regret to see in his present position, no doubt represents a phase of Irish opinion unfamiliar to this House.

The "Abraham Baldwin letter" referred to in your last I regret to say has not arrived.

I regret to be obliged to own that I know but a mere smattering of architecture.

I had not, I regret to say, the means of ascertaining with precision the different causes which had driven these hill chiefs into rebellion.

My feelings, my humanity, are averse from those who govern, but I should regret to be the means of injuring them.

If a light were erected on Cape Wickham, and a vessel running for it should be to the southward of her position, she would risk sharing the fate of the Cataraqui,* unless more caution were used than is generally the case, I regret to say, in merchant vessels.

"I regret to have to hurt your feelings," he is saying, in that awful civil voice, at which we allsmall and greatquake, "but the next time that this occurs" (pointing to the bill), "I must request you to find accommodation for yourself elsewhere, as really my poor house is not a fit place for a young gentleman with such princely views on the subject of expenditure.

The Continental Times is, I regret to say, largely written by renegade Englishmen in Berlin employed by the German Government, notably Aubrey Stanhope, who for well-known reasons was unable to enter England at the outbreak of war, and so remains and must remain in Germany, where, for a very humble pittance, he conducts this campaign against his own country.

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