From this point of view their work had perhaps some value; and though it seems regrettable that practically nothing of permanent literary importance should have resulted from such repeated experiments, they are interesting at least as affording some connection between the sphere of the regular translators and the literary world outside.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
In avoiding the overliteral method, however, the translator of the classics sometimes assumed a regrettable freedom, not only with the words but with the substance of his source.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
A most regrettable accident!
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon