Alas!

“Alas!” wrote mathematician Tobias Dantzig, “what was once hailed as a monument to monotheism ended in the bowels of a robot.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Alas! life is obstinate, and clings closest where it is most hated.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

I sat by his bed watching him; his eyes were closed, and I thought he slept; but presently he called to me in a feeble voice, and, bidding me come near, said—Alas! the strength I relied on is gone; I feel that I shall soon die, and he, my enemy and persecutor, may still be in being.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

“Alas! yes, my father,” replied I; “some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must live to fulfil it, or surely I should have died on the coffin of Henry.”

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

Alas! why did they preserve so miserable and detested a life?

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

Alas! what freedom? such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, pennyless, and alone, but free.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

Alas! to me the idea of an immediate union with my cousin was one of horror and dismay.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

Alas! why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary3 beings.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

“Alas!” said she, “how shall I ever again believe in human benevolence?

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

“Alas! my father,” said I, “how little do you know me.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004