See alas in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "alack and alas"
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"word": "alas and alack"
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"ref": "c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:",
"text": "Helas I lamente the dull abuſyd brayne\nThe enfatuate fantaſies the wytles wylfulnes\nOf on and hothyr at me that haue dyſdayne",
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"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:",
"text": "Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; of moſt excellent fancy, he hath borne me on his backe a thouſand times: And how abhorred my Imagination is, my gorge riſes at it.",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 18:10:",
"text": "Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.",
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"ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188:",
"text": "The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called \"Christian civilization,\" and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.",
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"sense": "exclamation of sorrow, etc.",
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"lang": "Albanian",
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"word": "وَا حَسْرَتَاه"
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"word": "ափսոս"
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"sense": "exclamation of sorrow, etc.",
"word": "唉"
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"word": "哎呀"
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"word": "嗚呼"
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"word": "آوخ"
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"sense": "exclamation of sorrow, etc.",
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"sense": "exclamation of sorrow, etc.",
"word": "ai de mim"
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"sense": "exclamation of sorrow, etc.",
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"word": "ཀྱི་ཧུད"
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