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  • Alackaday! there's naught but trouble in the world.

    To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

  • "Alackaday! what can a few sakers and demiculverins do against them?"

    To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

  • "The poor owls cried, 'Alackaday, we shan't know whom to thank!'

    Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann Nancy Byrd Turner

  • "Alackaday! so are one hundred thousand pezos of gold, three thousand bars of silver, ten frails of pearls, jewels uncounted, cloth of gold and cloth of silver.

    To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

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