"Sad to say..."

Usage examples of alas.

But I fear, alas, that fools will condemn me, because I have sought to write as a wise man.

There be two wayes, either death or shame, That thou must suffer, -- alas that I was bore!

Human scholars, alas, tend to think solely in terms of human accomplishments.

Capustan shall be cleansed, Shield Anvil, though, alas, you will not live to see that glorious day.

I would have done so but, alas, I find myself unable to release my swords from my own hands.

ASIA: You said that spirits spoke, but it was thee Sweet sister, for even now thy curved lips Tremble as if the sound were dying there Not dead PANTHEA: Alas it was Prometheus spoke Within me, and I know it must be so I mixed my own weak nature with his love .

Can change with its false times and tides, Like hope and terror,-- Alas for Love!

Among their children, comfortable men Gather about great fires, and yet feel cold: Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old!

This lowly Thought, which once would talk with me Of a bright seraph sitting crowned on high, Found such a cruel foe it died, and so My Spirit wept, the grief is hot even now-- And said, Alas for me!

Heaven, not to punish the shepherds, for, alas, what had these innocent shepherds done?

A very specific point, alas, and that more by will than any skill the medics brought.

Such an irregular circumstance must, alas, awaken the liveliest speculations among those who move in the world.

My painful lumbago has alone prevented me from answering your short note yesterday, to express to you my regrets, and the love which has been enhanced in me by your generosity, alas!

Beale could introduce the little girl only, alas, by revealing to her so attractive, so enthralling a name: the side-shows, each time, were sixpence apiece, and the fond allegiance enjoyed by the elder of our pair had been established from the earliest time in spite of a paucity of sixpences.

Stephen, alas: a bateleur killed their mother, and I did not succeed in bringing them up.