'Alas ...'

Usage examples of sadly.

I was astonished to be greeted in my antechamber by a young lady, who asked me sadly whether I remembered her.

He was tempted to promise the colonel any thing, but sadly, Batman shook his head.

Charlie Weller, who was allowed to bivouac with the veterans because they liked him, plucked a head of soaking wet rye and shook his head sadly.

His death was sadly, his resurrection joyously, celebrated every year at Byblus with great pomp and universal interest.

After supper the poor abbe went sadly away, and the count took me to my room, telling me that I could sleep securely in spite of the lack of keys for his sisters-in-law who were lodged close by were no better off.

I replied somewhat sadly that I did not feel myself at liberty to break my word, but that she could make me do even that if she chose.

After this I sat down sadly on the bed, and abandoned myself to the most melancholy reflections, from which Sara did not endeavour to rouse me.

Even Edi, the very best scholar, forgot his studies and was staring sadly before him.

Any other conception of the passage, any conscious endeavour to win a round of applause by elocutionary display, would disable the actor from doing justice to the great and sadly stirring utterance.

I am going to force the ancient usage of knight errantry beyond its limits and boundaries, then you are sadly mistaken.

If I cannot felicitate you upon the contract you are no doubt about to enter into, at least I can pray that you may not be too sadly disappointed in the character of the lady you mean to marry!

We went as quick as we might along the rolling road, among live forests and dead ones, smelling the stinks of distant fumaroles as though they had been the stinks of a body decaying, waking sadly in the mornings and walking the day through no happier, urgently going, driven by our own need to do whatever it was needed doing without any real hope that it would do any good at all.

Cockayne relates that the locksman at Teddington informed him how the bone of his little finger being broken, was grinding and grunching so sadly for two months, that sometimes he felt quite wrong in his head.

I should have been sadly boared in this dull place if it had not been for gaming.

When he had gone she said, sadly enough, that she was sorry he had deprived us both of our pleasure, and that she was sure Don Francisco was still hanging about the place, and that she dared not expose herself to his vengeance.