Alack

"Alack," said I, sorrowfully; "though I am quite competent to become the stump orator at shortest notice, I do not see how I can enter my first appearance until I have carefully instructed Misters RAM and JALPANYBHOY in the evidence they are to give and leave untold, &c., and a week is too scanty and fugitive a period for such preparations!"

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

"Alack," said Sibyll, turning away her eyes, "can you find pleasure in seeing two poor brutes mangle each other for a bone?"

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Alack," said Sibyll, turning away her eyes, "can you find pleasure in seeing two poor brutes mangle each other for a bone?"

The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Alack," said the peasant, "an it shall not displease your Reverence, the lesson comes too late for me, for I am but a maimed man; but I will tell my two brethren, who serve the rich Rabbi Nathan Ben Samuel, that your mastership says it is more lawful to rob him than to render him faithful service."

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

"Alack," said the peasant, "an it shall not displease your Reverence, the lesson comes too late for me, for I am but a maimed man; but I will tell my two brethren, who serve the rich Rabbi Nathan Ben Samuel, that your mastership says it is more lawful to rob him than to render him faithful service."

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

"Alack," he cried, "an 'they all had your faith, laddie, a fig for the prophecy!

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

"Alack," he cried, "an 'they all had your faith, laddie, a fig for the prophecy!

Richard Carvel — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

"Alack," he cried, "an 'they all had your faith, laddie, a fig for the prophecy!

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

"Alack," said the tailor, "I have my twist; but no more strength -- nor time -- than will serve to make me one single buttonhole; for this is

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904

"Alack," said the tailor, "I have my twist; but no more strength -- nor time -- than will serve to make me one single button-hole; for this is

The Tailor of Gloucester Beatrix Potter 1904