As our guide on the canal boat ruefully remarked, "We are used to visitors here."

Covering himself, Thomas ruefully remarked that "it's hard to find many people who really know him."

Without missing a beat, her aunt ruefully remarked (causing us all to laugh), "They never are."

'Well, okay,' she remarked ruefully, tugging at a lock of hair.

That will not take a "month", as Mancini ruefully remarked.

"I'd like to be able to say no offense taken if none intended," Jim remarked ruefully.

"Well, discussing how they got on board isn't going to do us any good now," Tom remarked ruefully.

"On the sixth day, God created man," he remarked ruefully.

"Oh well, it was their first try," he remarked ruefully.

"I must be a better subject for their experiments than you," the older man remarked ruefully.