alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems. From Wordnik.com. [Romeo and Juliet] Reference
I feel so left behind .... alas, alack, alack, alas. From Wordnik.com. [The 10 Commandments of Middle Grade Fiction...] Reference
A lack, the slaying sword, alack, th 'entombing spade!. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven against Thebes] Reference
alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing. From Wordnik.com. [King Lear] Reference
Ah me! alack-a-day! my friends, what is to become of me?. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
Alas and alack, I am waaaaay too old to qualify for this. From Wordnik.com. [Money for writers under 31 in Scotland] Reference
But, alack! there were no camels, no Rebekah, no comfort. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Alas and alack, societal pressures are very strong, indeed. From Wordnik.com. [I want to join Fight Club | Johnny B. Truant] Reference
Alas and alack, my basil did not survive the last big wind. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
Alas and alack, some schools just have horrible conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Student teaching -- days 17 & 18] Reference
Alas and alack, he could not make it to that August 19 Rubicon. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm Roundup] Reference
And I felt that -- that that was something -- it was just alack. From Wordnik.com. [Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court] Reference
Woe and alack for the sound, for the rattle of cars to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven against Thebes] Reference
But, alack, you know what women are: excitement gives us strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
They call me to work on them, they are ready but alack I've not been. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Alas and alack for us, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that we are. From Wordnik.com. [Alas and alack for us, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that we are...] Reference
The tone and manner of speaking are excellent, but alack for the matter!. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
| Alas and alack for us, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that we are. From Wordnik.com. [The old Adapt A Popular TV Series For The Movies And Leave Out Half The Elements That Made The Series Work In The First Place Trick] Reference
« Alas and alack for us, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that we are. From Wordnik.com. [Programming note: Chattering with chimps in chimpanzee] Reference
February 12, 2007 at 04: 49 PM oh, the echoes of echoes of otherness! alack!. From Wordnik.com. [Almond Eyes] Reference
With the foils I---- But, alas and alack, you care not for tales of that sort. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Whatever else there might be alack with me, there was never a lack of appetite. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
But, alack, they had forgotten to warn Peggy and her words touched off the mine. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
But here, on this side of the world, alas and alack, the very name is a misnomer. From Wordnik.com. [COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES] Reference
There may be some hopes for you; but alack-a-day! what hopes are there for poor me?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
Oh well never mind - I was going to makes scetches and stuff too but alas and alack!. From Wordnik.com. [Snell-Pym » A Missed Eclipse] Reference
Lance Mannion: Alas and alack for us, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that we are. From Wordnik.com. [Alas and alack for us, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that we are...] Reference
Alas, alack, eager anticipation thwarted, some thrills but no chills appeared on screen. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Jones: Body of Lies, But No Chills] Reference
“alack, alack!” cried Nicholas, “I shall never get any employment in this desert!”. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
But, alack! all fields have not a river or a spring running besides them; — every child. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
No one ever more desired to look again on his wife and babies than I; but, alack and alas!. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
All these self promises have faild in consequence of that perpetual round of alack, exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 88] Reference
The exterior of the house itself was well enough, but alack for the approaches and the interior!. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Alas and alack, like polio, the effects of this regime will endure -- not matter what we do now. From Wordnik.com. [FLA-SEN: GOPers Fill Out Details Of Katherine-To-Drop-Out Scenario] Reference
So I would beg and plead and threaten to not bathe, but alas and alack, my family would not relent. From Wordnik.com. [I Still Want Me some Crazy Foam - The Retroist] Reference
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