I know he felt an enormous sadness, a fatigue, a mild regret.

Was it pain in her voice, masked over the years, or simply a mild regret?

She felt only mild regret, which she knew to be shock and drug combined.

He let his arms fall and looked with affection and mild regret at the landspace around him.

But, to his unconcealed surprise and mild regret, they didn't fire him.

She said it tartly, as if the subject was a matter for mild regret.

Thorby decided, with mildest regret, that his ability to fight would not be tested this jump.

My failure to hazard even so much as a plausible guess moved the don to a murmur of mild regret.

Death was speeding toward him on a dark horse and he found himself awaiting it with only mild regret.

Oswin went back to his work with mild regret at knowing no more, but dutifully.