ochone

"ochone," that had sadness and grief and misery in it; and I knew that it was the cry from one of the seamen who had been turned from the mines -- from one who mourned, perchance, the death of a friend or of a brother.

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

Ochone, ochone, our glory's o'er, stol'n by a mean deceiver (ruthless reiver),

The Highlander's Lament 1997

"These were the days and these were the nights, ochone and ochone, for the like o 'them we'll be seeing nevermore."

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

These were the happiest hours of all, ochone; the sun shone more brightly and the days were longer.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

"Ochone, ochone, he's gone, the strong one, and I mind me when his back was like a barn door and the love-locks curling on his brow," and she came into the chamber wringing pitiful, toil-worn hands, and the servants after her, ashiver to be left alone in the dim passage.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

But, ochone! if he'd had such a hound-pack as mine,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various

The trees would be dreary and sad -- the sea always grey and gurly and ochone, the very roads had the look of bareness and emptiness, as though all a man's friends had marched over them, never to return.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

Oh, to be back in the fine days of my youth, ochone!

Scene I. The Hairy Ape 1922

Oh, to be back in the fine days of my youth, ochone!

The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man 1922

The blessing of the bright sun and the moon upon you, since you took the day from the hands of King William – Och ochone!

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919