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I am a sucker for continuity, but alass they shall be rented.
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It is this belief which has supported me thus far through the voyage, but alass how often have I felt the want of my pilot, obliged
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How happy would it make the good old gentleman could you be one of the party; alass the Sons his Daughters have given him, are those only in which he can rejoice.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 24 August 1783 1993
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But alass with me; those days which are past, are gone forever: and time is hastning on that period, when I must fall, to rise no more; untill Mortality shall put on immortality, and we shall meet again, pure and unimbodied Spirits.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 - 25 November 1782 1993
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By him, I was happy to hear you were well when he left you, but alass! you know not the anxiety I suffer upon account of your Health, or how often my Heart is overwhelmed, with the Idea that I never shall see you more.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 3 January 1784 1993
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Forgive me if I sometimes use the singular instead of the plural, alass I have been too much necessitated
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 3 January 1784 1993
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Portia I think stands alone, alone alass! in more senses than one.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 - 25 November 1782 1993
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But alass We must keep house seperately for some time.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 December 1781 1973
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I promissed myself a negative kind of happiness whenever I could hear of your safe arrival but alass I find a craveing void left akeing in my Breast, and I find myself some days especially more unhappy than I would even wish an Enemy to be.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 July 1778, draft 1973
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