It hadn't been like this in the Marines, Remo recalled ruefully.

The thief, as he ruefully recalled some thirty years later, was neither poor nor hungry, and the pears weren't all that appealing, anyway.

"There was still a lot of space available, so I didn't think it would be a big deal," he recalled ruefully the other day.

I thought it would be easy, he recalled ruefully.

Her one weakness, she recalled ruefully, was trust.

Bell scolded and groaned, ruefully recalling his role as director of the previous drill tests.

It would have amused her to accompany him to Hell, she recalled ruefully as she took the dress down.

"I spent 23 years of my life on that," Mr. Butler recalled ruefully in a telephone interview.

"That thing took off like a rocket," he recalled ruefully.

This remark was forgotten at the time, and ruefully recalled after the mission failed to receive an official invitation to Hué.