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Sentences starting with alas

Alas poor house that is robbed of its past, of its glory, and of its patron deities! [10]
Alas for the perversity of maiden natures! [9]
Alas for the loved one, too gentle and fair The joys of the banquet to chasten and share! [6]
Alas that ever I should see this doleful day. [5]
Alas he was hoping he had got the better of it, and I know how this contradiction of his hopes will sadden him. [14]
Alas that they have to be worn under umbrellas, so much thought, freshness, feeling, tenderness have gone into them! [4]

Sentences ending with alas

He had been wronged in much by his father, and maybe--and this was the cruel part of it--had been unwittingly wronged, alas! [11]
You know very well I am still hot-headed, though I am old in years, and alas! [10]
I was present upon most of these occasions, and saw again many faces which I have not seen for a quarter of a century; among them some well-beloved faces--those of our generals and that of Catherine Boucher (married, alas! [5]
There was a time--which came to an end, alas! [10]
She's been gone these ten years, alas! [11]
So this was the truth about Philip d'Avranche, about Guida, alas! [11]
It was not that they were in themselves supernaturally bright,--but there was the sad fire in them that flames up from the soul of one who looks on the beauty of woman without hope, but, alas! [6]
Yet, during my temporary absence at Benicia, last week, alas! [5]
You could never take time from your great duties to accept the invitations of our literary committee, alas! [9]
Well, I visited St. Louis, but I did not hunt for Mr. Brown; for, alas! [5]

Short sentences using alas

Alas, it was too true! [10]
Alas, I cannot tell you. [5]
He was a pleasure-lover, alas! [11]
Alas, for the ne'er-do-weel! [11]
Alas, alas, my lords! [10]
Monsieur Malbrouck is dead, alas! [11]
My Lord Baltimore, alas! [9]
Many of these, alas! [9]
I saw it; alas! [5]
I am poor, alas! [10]

Sentences containing alas two or more times

Alas, alas, in the years to come we shall have to bite deep into the flesh, till the blood flows, if we wish to escape being eaten up ourselves! [10]
But then, alas, alas! [10]
Alas, alas! [6]
Alas, alas! [10]

More example sentences with the word alas in them

Alas, for long years he had dug and carried heavy loads, with chains on his feet, beneath a broiling sun. [10]
Alas, we cannot write of the future of Austen and Victoria Vane! [9]
And, alas again, whatever good showing we may make, we shall wish it were larger; the more people we have the more we shall want. [4]
These volumes, alas, were still uncut; but some of the pages of the novels--if one cared to open them--were stained with chocolate. [9]
Alas, she certainly was not happy here in Karnis' sense of the word; but in the other world there were joys eternal, and she had only to deny herself the petty enjoyments of this life to secure unfailing and everlasting happiness in the next. [10]
Alas, my regeneration was not complete--I wanted to smoke! [5]
Alas, hear the wailing from the city. [10]
Alas, for the vanity of human presage! [9]
According to an understanding with the two victims, he was to have given Backus four queens, but alas, he didn't. [5]
A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them;-- Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! [6]
Alas, that the tone of one woman's voice, the touch of her hand, the glance of her eye, should outweigh the world! [4]
There is not time, alas, to linger over Anne Rory or the new histories which she whispered to Aunt Mary when Honora was out of the room. [9]
Alas, the revenue the government will derive from these half-nomads will never pay the cost of enumerating them. [4]
But alas, when the debt at last reached $1800 or $2500 (I have forgotten which) the interest ate too formidably into his borrowings, and so he quietly ceased to pay it or speak of it. [5]
Alas, he died the day after Mr. Carvel, and was buried the same afternoon. [9]
I suppose that St. Louis and New Orleans have not suffered materially by the change, but alas for the wood-yard man! [5]
He had yet some distance to go, alas, ere he was to begin that sturdy battle for the right for which his countrymen and ours will always bless him. [9]
Alas, there was small room for hope--Backus's eyes were heavy and bloodshot, his sweaty face was crimson, his speech maudlin and thick, his body sawed drunkenly about with the weaving motion of the ship. [5]
What these were, Silas himself knew not; and the gentleman of leisure was, alas! [9]
Alas, the gallant ship and crew, Can nothing help them more? [5]
Alas, she knew she was not. [5]
You yourself have seen it climb up to six hundred and fifty dollars--and alas, even that is not the end! [5]
He was still resolved to keep it, but earthly life appeared less short, and he could not conceal from himself that, without Barbara's sunny cheerfulness, bewitching tenderness, and, alas! [10]
I would have praised him; I had plenty of praise in my heart; but alas I no words on my lips. [14]
So we went plowing past the sterns of steamboats and getting closer and closer--the crash was bound to come very soon--and still that hat never budged; for alas, the captain was napping in the texas.... [5]
But what had pleased him in the appearance of the doctor was, alas! [10]
We are not permitted, alas, to go behind these stern walls and discover how Captain Colfax passed that eventful Sunday of the Exodus. [9]
Alas, these young people are poor and pallid! [6]
Some of her own pupils, alas! [9]
We are pouring out the most generous blood of our youth and manhood; alas! [6]
They got him out and emptied him; Alas it was too late; His spirit was gone for to sport aloft In the realms of the good and great. [5]
I left him, orphaned, in the starless night; Alas, for him no cheerful morning's dawn! [6]
Alas, it was only the nightcap of the padre. [4]
She believed the old witch; and there was I lying with an unconvincing manner"--he sighed--"lying requires practice, alas! [11]
Tom held one of these grants, alas, and many others whom I knew. [9]
Alas, that most of the deserved honors of this world should fall upon barren ground! [9]
Alas, the concern of society is now for those upon whom the Church has lost her hold, who are seeking for a solution they can accept. [9]
What were the numbers of the "Mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease" to that great multitude of contributors to our magazines, and authors of little volumes--sometimes, alas! [6]
Count thou their number on the beads of Heaven, Alas! [6]
Alas, I was not to know. [9]
Cynthia, alas, did not think about it: she did not know that, in her absence, the fire had not been lighted in the evening, Jethro supping on crackers and milk and Milly partaking of the evening meal at home. [9]
It was, alas, no uncommon incident. [11]
Alas, is there no rest for me? [5]
One breathing form no more, alas! [6]
Alas, I got no message from Dorothy! [9]
Sometimes day and night there flash before my eyes--my mind's eyes--pictures of you and me in places unfamiliar, landscapes never before seen, activities uncomprehended and unknown, bright, alluring glimpses of some second being, some possible, maybe never-to-be-realised future, alas! [11]
Alas, no, I never met your father. [9]
All this would never have troubled me, if only I might have rejoiced in the presence of my dear love; but alas! [10]
Alas, I have neither the skill nor the scalpel to show the diseases of Mr. Hopper's mind; if, indeed, he had any. [9]
There are many nations here, alas! [11]
It opens its Mouth to cry for Help; but if any Sound comes out of him, alas he is drowned by the raging of the Storm. [5]
But three hours more, and that next express Would thunder by her, and she, alas! [11]
She comes no more when evening falls, To watch the stars wheel up the sky; Then love and light were over all; Alas! [11]
We strive to measure life by Time, And con the seasons o'er, To find, alas! [11]
She did not live, alas, to enjoy for long the Medicean magnificence of the mansion facing the Park, to be a companion moon in the greater orbit. [9]
She lifted the light cover and found, first, a few dried flowers; then a ball, round which some skilful hand had wreathed roses and leaves, once fresh and bright, now, alas, long ago dead and withered. [10]
Differences in after life, alas, are not always to be bridged thus. [9]
My real hope lies in escape and the intervention of England, though my country, alas! [11]
I did contradict it; but, alas! [6]
Alas, Dolly, perchance it was to be nothing more than a duke! [9]
I learned from it that every good and, alas! [6]
Many, alas, acquired it before they were come to years of discretion. [9]
Alas, my character is ruined, and I am a branded speaker of untruths! [5]
But alas, there is no dew here, nor flowers, nor birds, nor trees. [5]
No words, but, in the place thereof, a clean, straight, hard hit, which took effect with a spank like the explosion of a percussion-cap, knocking the slayer of beeves down a sand-bank,--followed, alas! [6]
And yet his image was never long absent from her thoughts; she wondered if he were dejected, if he were ill, if he were lonely, and mostly there was for him a great pity in her heart, a pity born, alas! [4]
Alas, mother, that I should be compelled to wound you at our first meeting! [10]
It was then I began to descend toward the valley of disappointment and sorrow; it was then I cast my little bark upon a mysterious ocean of wedlock, with him who then smiled and caressed me, but, alas! [5]
As he felt his little money-bag, which he was wont to place under his pillow, he could not forbear smiling in spite of all his troubles, for his fingers sank into the flaccid leather, and found only two coins, one of which he knew alas! [10]
He who prided himself in keeping the court right on points of procedure, who was looked upon almost with the respect given the position of the Judge himself, that he should fail in thinking of the obvious thing was humiliating, and alas! [11]
But, alas, even here and now, the same, relentless fate pursued her. [5]
When she turned her head he begged her warmly not to be alarmed far he was no ghost, only a very humble and ordinary mortal, in fact-as she might see--nothing more, alas! [10]
But, alas, when he arrived early in December, that pleasant game was partially blocked, for Eliza and the family arrived with him. [5]
Alas, for the hatred of Virgil! [9]
Alas, and Jason had no second pig, and was so eager to win the goddess to Phaon's cause. [10]
Alas, what hope had I of Dorothy now! [9]
Alas, it came from a power behind the throne that was greater than the throne itself. [5]
The answer I framed, alas, remained unspoken. [9]
Alas, for visions, for legitimate hopes shattered forever! [9]
To close our first day in Paris cheerfully and pleasantly, we now sought our grand room in the Grand Hotel du Louvre and climbed into our sumptuous bed to read and smoke--but alas! [5]
Then the scales fell from the eyes of the Seven, and one said, Alas, that we drank of the curious liquors. [5]
Alas, that her father could not have lived to witness this exploit of his grandson! [10]
Alas, Osgood has failed at last. [5]
Alas, the cold fact of the assignment remained. [4]
My dreams of education were boundless, brilliant, indefinite; but alas! [6]
He was now earning the princely sum of ninety dollars a month--not enough to marry on, alas! [9]
If--but, alas, what do we know of his past! [11]
Her perplexities--for she did have them--took the form of an instinctive sense of inadequacy, of persistently recurring though inarticulate convictions of the existence of elements not included in Ditmar's categories--of things that money could not buy; of things, too, alas! [9]
Alas, and she could only cast stolen glances at him, listen by stealth to the German words that fell from the beloved lips. [10]
Alas, that princes cannot abide with us forever! [9]
We are still called priests, but alas! [10]
Bad Catholic you call me, alas! [11]
His long and brilliant career is closed, alas! [5]
Alas, for my blissful, lost peace! [10]
They played no blind-man's buff; they dealt not in whist; they shirked not the irksome journal, for alas! [5]
Those whom I believed to be my friends, alas! [5]
I could not believe it at first, but alas! [5]
He had not been, alas, one of those to survive. [9]
The many really beautiful things to be seen here are not new; and the new, alas! [10]
We will not be wanting; but alas! [10]

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