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On Wednesday, March 31, when I visited him, and confessed an excess of which I had very seldom been guilty; that I had spent a whole night in playing at cards, and that I could not look back on it with satisfaction; instead of a harsh animadversion, he mildly said, 'Alas,
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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WHEN the suffering Servitor had deeply meditated upon this long and weary warfare, and moreover had come to see in it God's hid den marvels, he turned one day to God, sighing inwardly, and said: -- Alas,
The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself. Heinrich or Suso 1865
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On Wednesday, March 31, when I visited him, and confessed an excess of which I had very seldom been guilty; that I had spent a whole night in playing at cards, and that I could not look back on it with satisfaction; instead of a harsh animadversion, he mildly said, 'Alas,
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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On Wednesday, March 31, when I visited him, and confessed an excess of which I had very seldom been guilty; that I had spent a whole night in playing at cards, and that I could not look back on it with satisfaction; instead of a harsh animadversion, he mildly said, 'Alas,
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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I do like it as well, but what prevents me from doing it too often is the hassle of having to re-install and re-tweak everything, re-disable all the services I don't need, etc etc. Alas,
AutoHotkey Community 2009
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I do like it as well, but what prevents me from doing it too often is the hassle of having to re-install and re-tweak everything, re-disable all the services I don't need, etc etc. Alas,
AutoHotkey Community 2009
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And it was worse when the Sultan, after hearing the youth's succession of prayers and seeing his high dignity of demeanor, respectful withal, and his eloquence and elegance of language, clasped him to his bosom and kissed him and cried, "Alas,
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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2699: That heere by Mountaineers lyes slaine: Alas,
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Then indeed we might despairingly unite in that horrible utterance of Heine: "Alas,
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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Their eyes met, and, seizing her hand again, he whispered, in that low and tender voice which breathes the softest and most contagious emotion of the heart, "Alas,
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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