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Usage examples of sorry.

On the morning Washington departed Philadelphia to assume command at Boston, he and others of the Massachusetts delegation had traveled a short way with the general and his entourage, to a rousing accompaniment of fifes and drums, Adams feeling extremely sorry for himself for having to stay behind to tend what had become the unglamorous labors of Congress.

I am sorry not to be able to accompany you, however we shall see each other the day after tomorrow.

I should not be sorry, I confess, to have to finish altogether with these marsh-birds, who annoy me with their cries.

He told me that he was sorry but he did not know anything about the archive to which I referred and could not help me.

Then he almost stepped off into space, and told the mare he was sorry for cussing it as a balker once he saw why the trail ran the way it did.

When Emily said that she should hope to see the Countess also, she was not sorry to learn that this lady was going, accompanied by Mademoiselle Bearn, to pay a visit, for a few weeks, to a family in lower Languedoc.

Gordon answered that his movements were very uncertain, and that he should be sorry to trouble Bernard to follow him about.

Vivian was probably sorry as well, for she had a slightly confused and preoccupied look--a look from which, even in the midst of his chagrin, Bernard extracted some entertainment.

Leaving Father Blau, unregenerate, with the sorry residue of our weekly encounter: impure thoughts, anger, dirty words, disobedience.

Widmore, after bidding him a bluff good-morning, told him bluntly that she was sorry his suit had not prospered.

We take pride in not feeling sorry for ourselves, but Burnside took it a little too far.

And when he returned, it was in the company of Grace Bentham and Malemute Kid,--the former very sorry her husband could not share with her their hospitality, for he had gone up to look at the Henderson Creek mines, and the latter still a trifle stiff from breaking trail down the Stuart River.

The rose-bench was a rather sorry affair, for it had been set out in this exposed place by a former gardener who had forgotten that the direct winds from the Sound are malgracious to roses.

Much as he enjoyed maturing his ghost plot, he enjoyed still more the confidential talks with Kate that had sprung out of it, and he was sorry that this was to be the last of them.

I will grant you your life if you ask pardon for the crime you meditated, and for which you ought to be sorry.