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Examples
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An earnest preacher, in a very moving sermon, used the phrase Alas! and alack
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The hateful noise still continued, and he went out of his tent, for he knew any further attempt to sleep would be vain – Alas! the turrets of Rayland Hall were no longer painted on his imagination – instead of them he looked perpendicularly down on a hollow, where the dark knots of cypress seemed, by the dim light of early morning, which threatened storms, to represent groups of supernatural beings in funereal habits; and over them he saw, slowly sailing amid the mist that arose from the swamp, two or three of the birds which had so disturbed him.
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(Hey Alas, is that you Barry Deutsch, of Alas a Blog, the Pimp who literally was found trafficking the traffic of feminist women to pornographers to make money for yourself?
Matthew Yglesias » When Did American Feminists Stop Beating Muslim Women?
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Alas, that is not the way the Culture War is waged.
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Alas, that is also everything that Brown's gutted-and-stuffed party has now come to stand for.
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Alas, that is one of the few bright spots to be found.
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Alas, that is also everything that Brown's gutted-and-stuffed party has now come to stand for.
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Alas, that is also how they are treating public interest in NASA.
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Alas, that is not the case because our appetite for tuna is so voracious, and our willingness to pay for the privilege of eating sushi so great.
Jeff Schweitzer: Seed Corn, Discount Rate and Our Endangered Future
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Alas, that is not the case because our appetite for tuna is so voracious, and our willingness to pay for the privilege of eating sushi so great.
Jeff Schweitzer: Seed Corn, Discount Rate and Our Endangered Future
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