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The romance of it--and the wonder But other things, alackaday, must concern us.— Europe After 8:15
Editors nowadays were often surprised in their sanctums by committees of three from some pestiferous unwomanly club or other, and they had not come, alackaday, to have their handkerchiefs picked up with courtly speeches, graced with an apt quotation from "Maud."— V. V.'s Eyes
"Alas! and likewise alackaday (which is an approximately synonymous expression)!— The Red Thumb Mark
But now Alas and alackaday, that Romance was no more VII DIVERSIONS OF A RUINED GENTLEMAN--RESUMED From the commanding elevation of the box, "Three 'n' six," enunciated the cabby, his tone that of a man prepared for trouble, acquainted with trouble, inclined to give trouble a welcome.— The Black Bag
Its reduction to absurdity may be found (alackaday!) in _Fors Clavigera_ for June 1, 1874.— America To-day, Observations and Reflections
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