108 examples of remorseful in sentences

" "I cannot believe that the sin is his, Holy Father," answered the Reverend OCTAVIUS, respectfully: "but, even if it is, and he is remorseful for it, should not our Church cover him with her wings?"

Her heart was remorseful, as if she had wounded the little diminished place.

it was a light not wholly remorseful.

"Go and lie down, you dear, kind soul, and don't think of my nonsense again," said Kitty, feeling remorseful, till Pris was comfortably asleep, when she went to her room and revelled in her finery till bedtime.

Jailer Laval took the bereavement in a remorseful mood.

As she lingered he said absently, "Is that all?" She looked at him, and was inspired to leave the remorseful and sympathetic words that rushed to her lips unsaid.

Do you think II've got no feelings?" His voice sounded very forlorn, and Sarah felt remorseful.

It is horrid to see one's sovereigns melting away; but there's a delightful excitement in winning.' 'No doubt,' answered Maulevrier, with a remorseful sigh.

These thoughts made me feel remorseful and put me in a fever to get to work, to begin to do something.

"I do not wish to say at present," replied Ellis, with a remorseful pang, "unless it becomes absolutely necessary, to save the negro's life.

It was a vision of ignorant purity and unconsciousness rising before him, airy and glowing as a child's soap-bubble, which one touch might annihilate; but he felt a strange remorseful tenderness, a yearning admiration, at its unsubstantial purity.

I am not a bit remorseful.

I thought that Sholto would be uneasy and remorseful about her; but he does not really care half so much as I do.

Suddenly then another stood before himbowed, remorseful, humble.

Her companions she never sought, but they, partly from uneasy remorseful feelings, partly that they really liked her much better now that she did not oppress and puzzle them, sought her continually.

Her movement across the floor before the tyrant and his guests at table, the quaint fluttering of her drapery, the well-bred admiration of the spectators, their horror when she brings the Baptist's head to Herodias, and the weak face of the half-remorseful Herod are expressed with a dramatic power that shows the genius of a poet painter.

Part of the pang of recalling such moments is a remorseful sense that perhaps we might have held them fast, after all.

She had only to feel a pang of half-remorseful, half-humorous affection for him, and she knew what Lucy felt like in her love-sick agony.

It seemed very strange to Marian that they two, father and daughter, should be together thus, so near and yet so wide apart; united by the closest tie of kindred, brought together thus after years of severance, yet with no bond of sympathy between them; no evidence of remorseful tenderness on the side of him whose life had been one long neglect of a father's duty.

Once when they were alone, her softened heart would have confessed to Herbert this painful conviction, but he was too happy and too generous to permit her for a moment to indulge in such a remorseful retrospect.

They wept together; and once more, as they had not done since they were children, each brother put his arm round the other's neck, and remorseful Eric could not help being amazed, how, in his cruel heartless selfishness, he had let that fair child go so far astray; left him as a prey to such boys as were his companions in the lower school.

And he found joy in thinking that, though his ministry to rude lumbermen and hardened convicts might be fruitless, he had at least some gifts that made him a source of strength and consolation to the weak, the remorseful, the bereaved, and the dying.

Her wretched father bore with him, in all his wanderings and through all his remorseful exile, her pictureemblem of filial love, of all that is beautiful in the ministry of woman, and all that is terrible in human fate.

I was about to bring down shame upon your house, to cause your indignant displeasure, my parents anguish, myself but endless remorseful misery.

She writhed beneath those stern unpitying accents, which perhaps in such a moment of remorseful agony might have been spared, but she replied not; and, after a brief silence, the Duchess again spoke.

108 examples of  remorseful  in sentences