woe

• The "true women" of literature infallibly think and feel precisely as I do not think and feel, while the sentiments that I detest--woe is me--are lauded to the skies. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• He felt the justice as well as the harshness of the remark, and poured the water back into the jar Jacko seems puzzled at first, and held out his hand again; then he looked round on the men with that expression of unutterable woe which is peculiar to some species of the monkey tribe. —  The Red Eric
• Or--woe is me--am I really back again across the seas in New York, and is what I hear only the horn of the taxicab, rrrrr-ing in the street below But I open my too-dreaming eyes--and yes; I am in the Grunewald. —  Europe After 8:15
• Although a number of individuals may reside in adjoining compartments in the same burrow, yet if one enters a burrow not his own--woe is he! —  The Human Side of Animals
• He shuddered, as he reflected that the very barbarians who had wantonly inflicted his woe were the captors of the adored daughter of Captain Prescott, and that they had inflicted as shocking outrages even upon such defenseless captives as she Walking thus moodily forward, he was suddenly brought to a standstill by coming in front of an awkward, odd-looking structure, which excited his wonder in no small degree. —  Oonomoo the Huron

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