Alack-a-day

Alack-a-day, sir, said she, it is early days with Pamela; and she does not yet think of a husband, I dare say: and your steward and butler are both men in years, and think nothing of the matter.

Pamela 2006

"Alack-a-day!" said the stranger with a little shrug of his shoulders;

Robin Hood 1917

"Alack-a-day!" cried the housekeeper, lifting up her hands.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE -- Alack-a-day! thou art precise in that, but thou canst travel on Sundays to lead rogues into lurking holes

State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Harry Lushington Stephen 1902

Alack-a-day! the world went very well in the consulship of Plancus!

The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885

"Fear not; I will abide here, and if thou dost not cry 'Alack-a-day' ere long time is gone, may I never more peep through the brake at a fallow deer."

The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882

I take it ye are both wrong, and verily believe that were a furious mouse to run across his path, he would cry, 'La!' or 'Alack-a-day!' and fall straightway into a swoon.

The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882

'Alack-a-day!' cried goody Rees, holding up her hands in sore trouble for her friend.

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

'Alack-a-day!' cried goody Rees, holding up her hands in sore trouble for her friend.

St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864

"Alack-a-day! that I should have a son with so little wit!" cried the old woman; "it was no ghost, but a thief, who is now making merry with all the money we possessed."

Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863