Ruefully remembering Marty's warning about too much unguided wandering I left the door open and walked to the nearest comer.

I remembered ruefully the counsel I'd given Pharaoh's wife, poor, simple Clytemne.

"I was perfectly free," Isabel remembers ruefully, contemplating her disastrous marriage.

Having concluded his fight with the giants, which he remembers ruefully, Hellboy visits Alice's cottage in Ireland.

Louis ruefully remembers Anne's death in Italy from the plague.

Looking at her, Denis ruefully remembered the red notebook; he wondered what sort of a figure he was cutting now.

He ruefully remembered having tried several times with Elena.

"And for some reason I wore my Uncle's mac," he remembers ruefully, a wardrobe choice he regrets to this day.

He also ruefully remembers pulling an outrageous prank at the home of the actor James Coburn.

I dropped my hand, remembering ruefully how in the last days before I'd broken my promise to him he had finally become at ease with my touch.