A faint regret for his abandoned military career crept into René's voice, or maybe Miles was projecting.

He was also aware that he felt nothing but a faint regret now.

She saw herself forgotten by this man whom she loved, or from time to time remembered only with a faint regret.

Or if he did, on rare occasion, it was with the faint regret of a man recalling a foolish dream of his boyhood.

"And I thought you were kind," she said with a faint, distant regret, as if speaking of some incident in the far past.

Her only faint regret was that Jake would never know!

How, after all that, could there possibly be this faint regret that she would never feel his hands again?

"I don't know," I said, with the usual pang of faint regret for my vanished family.

"I am indeed aware of that," Tammad answered with a sigh, faint regret in his mind.

He ate in no great hurry, voided, thought vaguely and with only faint regret on what he could remember of Before.