| 1. | Sadly, sadly, would she rue it.. - from Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm |
| 2. | Too well I see and rue the dire event. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | You shall rue it to the end of your days.. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 5. | In rue Monsieur-le-Prince I thought it. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | And, in thy closet pent up, rue my sham. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Consider all this, and rue upon my sore. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 9. | If you deny them, all the land will rue it. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | Was ever son so rued a father's deat. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | Rusting to ruin they rued then but littl. - from Beowulf by |
| 12. | How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 13. | Thereat laughed they all right jocundly only young Stephen and sir Leopold which never durst laugh too open by reason of a strange humour which he would not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might be or wheresoever. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |