rue
/ɹu/ verb C2- To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. · to rue the day· I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
He/she/it rues · Past rued · Past participle rued · -ing form ruing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rue
- He/she/it
- rues
- Past
- rued
- Past participle
- rued
- -ing form
- ruing
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Caderousse lingered for a moment, then taking leave of old Dantès, he went downstairs to rejoin Danglars, who awaited him at the corner of the Rue Senac.
In one of the aristocratic mansions built by Puget in the Rue du Grand Cours opposite the Medusa fountain, a second marriage feast was being celebrated, almost at the same hour with the nuptial repast given by Dantès.
At this moment, and as Villefort had arrived at the corner of the Rue des Conseils, a man, who seemed to have been waiting for him, approached; it was M.
“To Monsieur Noirtier, Rue Coq-Héron, Paris.” Had a thunderbolt fallen into the room, Villefort could not have been more stupefied.
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