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rue
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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)
  • 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
  • "I haven't been properly dry since August") "— and we're going to make them rue the day they let that little bit of slime, Malfoy, buy his way onto their team."†  (source)
    rue the day = feel sadness and regret (about the day something happened)
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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)
    Rue = feel sadness and regret
  • 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)
    rued = felt sadness and regret
  • When I catch you—and find you I shall—I shall make you rue the day you were born!†  (source)
    rue the day = feel sadness and regret (about the day something happened)
  • 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)
    Rues = feels sadness and regret
  • "That's a fair young lady to hand to a coach in the dark, Mr. Darnay!" he said, ruing his new goblet.†  (source)
    ruing = feeling sadness and regret
  • But since I see, that thou wilt here abide, And thus forslothe* wilfully thy tide,** *idle away **time God wot, *it rueth me;* and have good day.'†  (source)
    rueth = feels sadness and regret
    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."
  • "Thou saw'st thy child y-slain before thine eyen, And yet now lives my little child, parfay:* *by my faith Now, lady bright, to whom the woeful cryen, Thou glory of womanhood, thou faire may,* *maid Thou haven of refuge, bright star of day, Rue* on my child, that of thy gentleness *take pity Ruest on every rueful* in distress.†  (source)
    Ruest = feel sadness and regret
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou ruest" in older English, today we say "You rue."
  • Michel and Christiane's small apartment on the rue de Turbigo was filled with books and magazines.†  (source)
  • I bespoke a room at a portside inn, and in the following days, there were many times that I rued my rashness, for it proved no simple matter to decide what course to follow.†  (source)
    rued = felt sadness and regret
  • She keeps telling us we're still dirty and if she has to come out to scrub us we'll rue the day.†  (source)
    rue the day = feel sadness and regret (about the day something happened)
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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
  • 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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