Definition of Alas

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Definition of Alas
	Alas An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white. Related Definitions: Alack, Alas, An, Apprehension, By, Day, Exclamation, Expressive, Evil, Followed, In, Like, Of, Old, Or, Pity, Sometimes, Sorrow, The, White

Alas Quotations

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William Shakespeare

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Ovid

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel De Cervantes

Alas Translations

alas in Dutch is o wee, helaas
alas in German is leider
alas in Hungarian is sajna
alas in Italian is purtroppo
alas in Latin is vae
alas in Spanish is ay

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