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ALAS
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By bad luck
Example:
alas, I cannot stay
Synonyms:
alas; regrettably; unfortunately; unluckily
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Context examples:
But, alas! there were very different thoughts to succeed.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Then he stayed away for three whole days, and made no sign, a proceeding which caused everybody to look sober, and Jo to become pensive, at first, and then—alas for romance—very cross.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The tune across the yard that seemed as if it never had left off—alas! it was the tune that never DOES leave off—was beating, softly, all the while.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Alas! for the pride which goes before a fall!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Alas! such delightful proofs of Hartfield's attraction, as those sort of visits conveyed, might shortly be over.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Alas! it was all Miss Crawford's doing.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Alas! It was snuffed and extinguished in one.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But, alas! the story which followed, of his designs on Miss Darcy, received some confirmation from what had passed between Colonel Fitzwilliam and herself only the morning before; and at last she was referred for the truth of every particular to Colonel Fitzwilliam himself—from whom she had previously received the information of his near concern in all his cousin's affairs, and whose character she had no reason to question.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his whole life; but now, alas! it is too late—forever too late!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Alas! what a fatal interruption!
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
