He heaved himself against the bar and tipped his glass with a sigh - adenoidal, rueful.

Tempered back to reason by the anonymity of the night, Halliron gave a rueful sigh.

"He would know about the gin," the Portmaster said with a rueful sigh.

Isobel gave a rueful sigh and creased her smooth forehead in a frown.

He finally looked up, a rueful sigh escaping from him, something bitter and long repressed.

She drew in breath and let it out in a dry and rueful sigh.

To make such a public display, he thought with a rueful sigh, the admiral must, indeed, be in a rare temper.

With a rueful sigh she made the comment even though she knew he did not hear her.

Teachers around the country will have let out a rueful sigh - "I thought it would be our fault.

And Hesmucet, contemplating the orders he had indeed given, let out a long, rueful sigh.