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

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

  The Highlander's Lament

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

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

• “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

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

  The McBrides A Romance of Arran

• “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

• “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

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

  The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man

• “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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