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Why, this it is that makes every one be thought of alike: And, alack-a-day! what a world we live in! for it is grown more a wonder that the men are resisted, than that the women comply.
Pamela 2006
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There may be some hopes for you; but alack-a-day! what hopes are there for poor me?
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Ah me! alack-a-day! my friends, what is to become of me?
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The honest clown looked earnestly at me, and said nothing for above half a minute, when, scratching his poll, ‘A horse, say you and to Colchester, to carry double? why yes, mistress, alack-a-day, you may have horses enough for money.’
Moll Flanders 2003
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The country, the house and the grounds are, as I have said, divine; but, alack-a-day! there is such a thing as seeing all beautiful around you — pleasant woods, white paths, green lawns, and blue sunshiny sky — and not having a free moment or a free thought left to enjoy them.
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As, alack-a-day! he did not get around to me before that occasion, I went, packed in the bottom of a trunk, with the young man and his wife on their annual holiday.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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The honest clown looked earnestly at me, and said nothing for above half a minute, when, scratching his poll, 'A horse, say you and to Colchester, to carry double? why yes, mistress, alack-a-day, you may have horses enough for money. '
The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923
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Well, he took hold of it, near where it was fastened to the chimney, to show the frog boy how it was done, but, alas, and also alack-a-day!
Bully and Bawly No-Tail Howard Roger Garis 1917
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There are no more umbrellas for a picayunish skeleton to raffle, no more such delicious sweets for the madame to stack into picayune piles, and, alack-a-day! no more picayunes, either.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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But alas and alack-a-day! when the waiters came to serve the choicest vintages from the correctly labelled bottles, they gave forth nothing but Waukesha spring water.
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901
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