Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See O hone, under O.
Examples
“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
“Ochone, ochone, our glory's o'er, stol'n by a mean deceiver (ruthless reiver),”
“But, ochone! if he'd had such a hound-pack as mine,”
“These were the days and these were the nights, ochone and ochone, for the like o 'them we'll be seeing nevermore.”
“These were the happiest hours of all, ochone; the sun shone more brightly and the days were longer.”
“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 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.”
“Oh, to be back in the fine days of my youth, ochone!”
“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
“O Patrick Sarsfield, the prayer of every person with you; my own prayer and the prayer of the Son of Mary with you, since you took the narrow ford going through Biorra, and since at Cuilenn O'Cuanac you won Limerick – Och ochone!”
The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish
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