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Sentences starting with woe

Woe is me, Willy, but the wild one rageth! [11]
Woe unto them who rob the innocent of happiness here and of rest beyond the grave! [10]
Woe betide him who resists. [10]
Woe betide him, who received a blow from the two-handed sword the Eletto still held over his shoulder, now with his left hand. [10]
Woe to those who call by its true name what those blind souls call pleasure and enjoyment as serving to hasten the flight of time--not too long at the most; woe to those who dare raise even a finger against it! [10]
Woe to those who allow themselves to be tempted on board by the magnificence of its decorations! [10]
Woe to the unfortunate victim she overtook! [9]
Woe is to them if they touch! [6]
Woe be to the incautious who, lulled by a week of fancied security, ventured out into the dishevelled field for a little food! [9]
Woe is me, that I have murdered him who, as my nearest kinsman, should have avenged on the Magi this affront to my honor. [10]

Sentences ending with woe

But I respect worsteds even under the name of yarn: our ladies--my own mothah and sistahs--had to knit the socks we wore--all we could get in the woe. [8]
For sheer hatred--as sure as man is the standard for all things--merely carried away by a hideous impulse to spite their neighbor for not thinking as they do--nay, simply for not being themselves--to hurt him, insult him, work him woe. [10]
His eye- glass seemed like a frost of death over an eye that looked upon some shocking scene of woe. [11]
Dicky, however, seemed satisfied, for Fielding's little barque of life had not gone down "On the reef of Norman's woe. [11]
The horses and runners of the two-wheeled chariots were also decked with all the emblems of the deepest woe. [10]
Does any man really suppose, that, of a score of noble young fellows who have just laid down their lives for their country, the Homoousians are received to the mansions of bliss, and the Homoousians translated from the battle-field to the abodes of everlasting woe? [6]
At this sight Psamtik wept aloud, and smote upon his forehead, calling on the name of his friend in a voice full of woe. [10]
From the height of happiness it led her directly to such an abyss of the deepest woe. [10]
I said just now our load is not light, but how much heavier was the burden he took upon him of his own free will to release us from woe. [10]
These bills had now disappeared, and when the Friend turned back to communicate his loss, in the character of needy nothing not trimm'd in jollity, he had a sympathetic listener to the tale of woe. [4]

Short sentences using woe

But woe to us! [10]
But woe is me! [5]
Woe unto us all! [10]
Woe is me! [5]

Sentences containing woe two or more times

Thus woe on woe, and at the same time the painfully paralyzing feeling of the hostility of Fate had been evoked from its surges and, instead of happiness, they had brought sorrow and suffering. [10]
If his suspicion that it has been poisoned should be proved true, woe to this luckless city, woe to us all! [10]
No doubt, too, some golden means may be found to bind his tongue; for woe to you if Caracalla discovers prematurely that you are promised to another, and woe then to your betrothed! [10]

More example sentences with the word woe in them

There, if anywhere you will forget your private and short-lived woe, for my voice speaks to the infinite and the eternal in your consciousness. [6]
And yet, and yet--woe, woe is me! [10]
Come weal, come woe, come dark, come light, I have fixed my mind, and nothing shall change it. [11]
The weal and woe of many persons were at stake, her own above all, since, as Wolff's betrothed bride, she belonged to him inseparably. [10]
The weal and woe of his life are at stake. [10]
The weal or woe of her whole future depended on the answer she should give to Philostratus. [10]
Our weal and woe are in your hands alone. [10]
They ran forward with woe and dismay in their faces, exclaiming-- "Oh, poor Tom, poor lad! [5]
Philip did not wish to quarrel with the artist now, but he would remember the incident, and woe betide him, if in some gloomy hour the sovereign should recall the insult offered him here. [10]
All the people who had collected round the priest, broke out into a far-sounding cry of woe, in which he himself and Rui's widow vehemently joined. [10]
And Philostratus perceived what was going on in her mind, and with the exhortation, "Remember how many persons' weal or woe lies in your hands! [10]
This festival: the wedding of the Bride of the Nile to her mighty and unresting spouse, on whom the weal or woe of the land depended, was to be as a flowery oasis in the waste of dearth and desolation. [10]
While on the way she reflected, for the first time, what John could desire of her for the "weal and woe of his life. [10]
The cheerful music-room was a scene of woe till Demetrius came to conduct his brother and Dada to the widow Mary who was expecting them. [10]
For it is true he hath deserved death, but woe be to him by whom his death cometh! [11]
Higher things were to be determined here--the weal or woe of her people. [10]
Through this man, through much thinking on him, I have come to feel the woe of all the world. [11]
A day like this is called a poudre day; and woe to the man who tempts it unthinkingly, because the light makes the delicate mist of frost shine like silver. [11]
I do not think it is personal vanity or ambition, though I am not free from these infirmities, but I cannot but feel that the weal or woe of this great nation will be decided in November. [7]
But woe to the woman's love when she becomes insensible to these little stabs! [4]
But woe to the unfortunate Rosetta if she overstepped the bounds of respect! [9]
As soon as the old man saw the broken fingers, he gave another yell of woe, and when Paaker ordered him to cease he asked: "And is the man still alive who did that, and who killed Descher? [10]
The shipper in the little ship It effects with woe sad might; He does not see the rocky slip, He only regards dreaded height. [5]
It is true that these dear creatures are all compassion for every form of human woe, and anxious to alleviate all human misfortunes. [6]
What cared they, that the weal and woe of thousands depended on their decision? [10]
He was not taking his troubles quietly, and woe be to the man or woman who crossed him this day! [11]
That such a song should be heard in her house of woe was too much; with her own hand she closed the shutters over the window next her; then she bade her young guest go to bed. [10]
Day after day so, and then ten miles of storm such as come only to the vast barrens of the northlands; and woe to the traveller upon whom the icy wind and the blinding snow descended! [11]
As she did so the words that he had written met her eye: "'But offences must come, and woe to him from whom the offence cometh! [11]
If you're not sharp enough, I'll creak the door, and woe betide you if I have to creak it much. [12]
And from that saying we may learn--suffer me the syllogism--that, inasmuch as all things which bring woe to one bring joy to another, and vice-versa, there must ever be some sad faces so long as there is no lack of happy ones. [10]
Woe to the reputation for political sagacity of the gentleman who had used the words "negligible" and "monumental farce"! [9]
Temptation bids us repeat the offence, and woe comes in return for what is done. [5]
And let us remember that our duties to our brethren do not cease when they become unable to share our toils, or leave behind them in want and woe those whom their labor had supported. [3]
Ever since she reached Augsburg, an inner voice had told her--and old Brigitta's cards confirmed it--that the destiny of her life would be decided here, and he alone held her weal and woe in his hand. [10]
The huge brute puts up with a great deal from his small companion, but woe betide the dog if the tiger once pats him with his heavy, murderous paw--and he might, out of sheer forgetfulness! [10]
Moses had murdered Pharaoh's first-born son, but he and the aged chief-priest of Amon held the weal or woe of the dead prince's soul in their hands,--a weapon sharp and strong, for he knew the monarch's weak and vacillating heart. [10]
Soon after Herr Pfinzing ushered Ernst Ortlieb, his daughter, and Wolff into the presence of the sovereign, who gazed as if restored to youth at the handsome couple whose weal or woe was in his hands. [10]
The blow of overwhelming fate may be easily borne, but woe to him, whose life is ruined by his own sin! [10]
Woe to Ned or Jackson or Tato, if they came an inch over the threshold from the hall beyond! [9]
Woe to any one who touches her! [10]
She cares for one only, and woe to those who come between him and her! [10]
And inasmuch as on that day his whole soul was filled with love, his hardness was softened, and how gladly and thankfully my heart beat when I beheld him give his hand to the man who had endured so much woe for my sake. [10]
She involuntarily thought of him as one of those few with whom she had come into personal contact, and in whose weal or woe she had some sympathetic interest. [10]
As in times of far greater affliction, he enforced a quiet endurance of his woe upon himself. [14]
Despised love struck not with woe That head of curly knots, Nor stomach troubles laid him low, Young Stephen Dowling Bots. [5]
Upon them depended not only the destiny of the world, but also the weal and woe of the greatest as well as the humblest of those assembled here. [10]
Antony's mood could not be predicted, and the Syrian's weal or woe depended on his favour. [10]
And literature is not a career, it is just a toss up, a lottery, and woe to you if you once draw a lucky number--you will always be expecting another . [4]
It was a night of woe in that house. [5]
Now give me my spear, said Arthur unto Sir Lucan, for yonder I have espied the traitor that all this woe hath wrought. [5]
To-day the martial music is hushed by the terrible woe brought upon us by that Hebrew villain. [10]
Who die in mortal sin have mortal woe, But blessed are they who die doing Thy will; The second death can strike at them no blow. [10]
The fool hath mocked, The fool our woe upon us hath unlocked From where the soul holds to our lips the glass, To see what breath of life. [11]
Traffic had ceased; men did not talk or laugh, or go in groups, or even in couples; they moved aimlessly about, each man by himself, with his head down, and woe and terror at his heart. [5]
Woe unto thee, mean, blind fool that thou art! [10]
Whereas, woe is me, I return in infinitely better humor with the world than I ever was before, and with a most melancholy good opinion and good will for the great mass of my fellow-creatures! [4]
O, woe is me, I know thy voice! [5]
Ursula stood before me, her blue eyes drowned in tears--tears for me, telling me that my woe was deep enough and bitter enough to grieve even the ruthless heart of my enemy. [10]
But woe is me, Ching Foo, the man was right. [5]
Also he held me dear as the widowed maid to whom his friend was to have been wed, and he could never forgive himself if fresh woe came upon me through him or his kith and kin. [10]
Woe to the man or woman whose days are passed in watching the hour-glass through which the sands run too slowly for longings that are like a skulking procession of bloodless murders! [6]
They whose tragedy lies in the capacity to suffer greatly, being given the woe of imagination, bring forth inner history as a mother gasps life into the world. [11]
He did not know his way, but woe betide those who ventured to oppose him. [10]
Woe came upon Jim Templeton and Arrowhead, the heathen. [11]
But the good Isis, who herself had wept her eyes red in bitter anguish, could understand her woe. [10]
Woe to us, is the thought of Carlyle, when a thinker is let loose in this world! [4]
If the master is like his men it serves him right if he is overthrown; to weep for him would be waste of woe! [10]
Now, in sooth, inasmuch as I must make record of the deepest woe of my life, the brazen toll is a sad one, and the long-healed wounds ache afresh. [10]
Woe betide you if you fail to do it, or disobey me by a hair's breadth. [12]
Woe betide him if the spirits recognised in him the deceiver she now believed him. [10]
She felt as if much of the joy which Iras lacked had fallen to her own lot, and all the grief and woe she had ever endured had been transferred to her foe. [10]
Woe to the Honourable Adam B. [9]
All the way home he nursed his woe and exalted it. [5]
Perhaps it was his unlimited control over the weal and woe of the world, over the life and death of millions, which raised a mortal, not otherwise formed for greatness, so far above common humanity to a semblance of divinity. [10]
Then I asked him whether he had in truth rather have found her in woe and grief, and would fain have had her young days saddened for love of him? [10]
Woe be to him that showed an arm or a shoulder! [9]
Woe be to him if head grew dizzy, foot slipped, or strength gave out; he would be broken to pieces on the hard sand below. [11]
Aye, and they have done me some service, as a merchant trader, whensoever I have desired the safe conduct of princes and knights; but as to charging them with the safe conduct of my soul, the weal or woe of my immortal spirit!--No, no, never! [10]
The Egyptian Princess has given her name to the book, only because the weal and woe of all my other characters were decided by her fate, and she must therefore be regarded as the central point of the whole. [10]
All morning she had longed to go out into the woods and bury herself among the ferns and bracken, and laugh and weep for very excess of feeling, downright joy and vague woe possessing her at once. [11]
He would not go shipwreck now "on the reef of Norman's woe. [11]
Intense was the gloom, dark the sky, yet even amidst the cruel woe there was many an hour in which bright sunshine illumined souls, and hope unfurled her green banner. [10]
The platform provided for every want and every woe. [4]
And, while tears flowed at the recital of woe, a corrobory of pleasant laughter closed the eventful day. [5]
On Thee we fling our burdening woe, O Love Divine, forever dear, Content to suffer, while we know, Living and dying, Thou art near! [6]
It is the duty of every man, but especially of a king, to acquaint himself intimately with all that concerns the weal or woe of his people. [10]
Something must be done, he reflected; it was heart-breaking, this woe, this smileless misery, this dull despair that looked out from his poor friend's face. [5]
Woe to a dog if he crosses the line! [5]
Star-drifts that glimmer Dimmer and dimmer, What do ye know of my weal or my woe? [11]
But offences must come, and woe to him from whom the offence cometh! [11]
More thou the cause Than subject now of woe. [7]
I had learnt by experience that it was within my power to be mistress of any heart's griefs, and I could tell myself that dull sufferance of woe would have ill-pleased him whose judgment I most cared for. [10]
But Caracalla furiously broke in: "And woe to you if your god refuses me the only thing I crave in return for so many sacrifices--revenge, complete and sanguinary; atonement from great and small alike! [10]
Every "local" editor breathed his woe over the incidents of the police court, the falling leaf, the tragedies of the boardinghouse, in the most lachrymose periods he could command, and let us never lack fine writing, whatever might be the dearth of news. [4]
Woe betide the boat that got into this devil's caldron! [9]
It might have been for weal or it might have been for woe. [10]
Its weight may become unendurable when the weal and woe of half the world are at stake. [10]
Their natures may be harsher or more gentle; they bring us woe or heal heavy sorrows, according to their mood. [10]
It may be as well to tell you at once that what I might require of you would concern not myself but the weal or woe of the water-bearers, the two maidens you have seen and who much need protection. [10]

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