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Alass, I hear that it will take up to six months for that coverage to be implemented.
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Alass I have not even that, for wakeing or sleeping I am ever with you.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 October 1782 1993
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-- Alass my dear I am much afflicted with a disorder call'd the Heartach, nor can any remedy be found in
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 9 December 1781 1973
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Alass you little thought what distress we were in the day you wrote.
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After this the original plan was to make a fourth cruise, filling up the charts of the Inner Passage on the east coast, and surveying the straits of Alass between Lombok and Sumbawa in the Malay Archipelago; then, instead of returning to Sydney, to proceed to Singapore and so home by the Cape.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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Alass; one of our crowd is no more, he has gone the way of all the living.
Augusta County: Tony Pastor to Annie Harris, June 15, 1862 Tony Pastor 1862
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After this the original plan was to make a fourth cruise, filling up the charts of the Inner Passage on the east coast, and surveying the straits of Alass between Lombok and Sumbawa in the Malay Archipelago; then, instead of returning to Sydney, to proceed to Singapore and so home by the Cape.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Alass how grate the breech is, tween the orthor, and the columns of a noospaper, and how short the rode, wot leeds to the waist basket, espeschially the one, in a printin offis like the Daily "Buster," were the basket covers bout a square akrc of flore.
The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 Metta Victoria Fuller Victor 1858
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Alass she was little more than thirty Years older than myself.
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Alass! his Grandeur must be of short duration if it ever commences.
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