Sample Sentences for
rue
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    When I went home that night I says to Thomas, says I, 'Mark my words, Thomas, Marilla Cuthbert'll live to rue the step she's took.'  (source)
    rue = to feel sadness and regret for
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    You will rue the day you laid hands on Janos Slynt.  (source)
    rue the day = feel sadness and regret (about the day something happened)
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    She keeps telling us we're still dirty and if she has to come out to scrub us we'll rue the day.†  (source)
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    I give Rue some matches and she makes sure I have plenty of leaves in case my stings flare up again.†  (source)
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    We had our problems with Saddam, but we warned the Americans they would rue the day they toppled him.†  (source)
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    If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued his bloody blunder more than I now rue mine.†  (source)
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    He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the man pass.†  (source)
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    "That's a fair young lady to hand to a coach in the dark, Mr. Darnay!" he said, ruing his new goblet.†  (source)
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    *Me rueth sore of* Hendy Nicholas: *I am very sorry for* He shall be *rated of* his studying, *chidden for* If that I may, by Jesus, heaven's king!†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She rueth" in older English, today we say "She rues."
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    Clarisse La Rue I could at least charm with my dazzling smile.†  (source)
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    When I catch you—and find you I shall—I shall make you rue the day you were born!†  (source)
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    It was these three huts that I associated with all my happiness, with life itself, and I rued the fact that I had not kissed each of them before I left.†  (source)
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    He thanked Providence for having sent this happy idea to him; but, as he was preparing to cross the Place, in order to reach the tortuous labyrinth of the city, where meander all those old sister streets, the Rues de la Barillerie, de la Vielle-Draperie, de la Savaterie, de la Juiverie, etc., still extant to-day, with their nine-story houses, he saw the procession of the Pope of the Fools, which was also emerging from the court house, and rushing across the courtyard, with great cries, a great flashing of torches, and the music which belonged to him, Gringoire.†  (source)
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    I started noticing all these frightening things in Margaret's house: creepy masks, old swords, books with titles like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Skull and the Hatchet.  (source)
    Rue = street name
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    Poe is credited with originating the detective-mystery genre with his character Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, who appeared in three short stories: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," ...  (source)
    Rue = French word for street
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