alack
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of alack
Example Sentences
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Oxford I sing, though in untutored tones, alack!
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
But alas and alack he is stopped by a force that is driving him back, not by years but hundreds of years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Excerpt from the latter: We're the lonely men of Harvard; Alone, alas, alone, alack, are we!
From Time Magazine Archive
You're a silly chick, my dear, That's quite as plain, alack!
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
There are, alas and alack, a few things they would have hidden, had they only known what was in store for them.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers
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