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Examples
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A beautiful picture, … helas,. .the snow is gone here in Brussels.
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On Le menu I read rognons and thought that it meant a rolled up beef ... but helas!
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I wish I could come to Paris to get a repeat performance (and I, too prefer those oversize paperbacks) but helas …
reading 2008
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Season 4 started to show great promise with the Vulcan/Romulan subplots, but helas, it was not meant to be.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - There aint nothing wrong with Enterprise 2007
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But helas, by the time it came to season 3, it was already to late.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - There aint nothing wrong with Enterprise 2007
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On Le menu I read rognons and thought that it meant a rolled up beef...but helas!
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La mon desespoir a du s'entendre au telephone parce que j'ai soufflé un "oui helas toujours".
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Et avec qa que nous sommes de bonne famille — mais helas! monsieur, en Russie, comme vous savez, qa ne vous vaut que des insultes — des atrocites.
Whose Body Sayers, Dorothy L. 1923
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Had I commenced a letter with the French Helas! helas! it would have been no more than might reasonably have been expected considering the desolate situation of New Haven and the gloomy prospects before me.
Letters and Journals 01 Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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"To Your Majesty it is a pleasing comedy," said I, "but to me, helas! it is nearer far to tragedy."
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Rafael Sabatini 1912
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