Miss Chae stood there very calm and collected; the old man appeared somewhat apologetic.

"There've often been groups and individual hermits living within the Tree," the Prior said, sounding somewhat apologetic.

The giff held out the lone folio, a somewhat apologetic look on his face.

And truth was, though he sounded somewhat apologetic at times, the word "sorry" never actually left his lips.

But the horse," said Alan, somewhat apologetic on this point, "we haven't caught.

Would you mind" - his tone was somewhat apologetic - "if I played it, so that the other customers could hear it?

And if his tone was somewhat apologetic, the words themselves were full of confidence.

But he had been polite, even somewhat apologetic at their previous encounters.

Joe was somewhat apologetic on the subject.

She lifted one shoulder in a somewhat apologetic shrug, even though she wasn't sure what she herself had to apologize for.