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  • Oh, well-a-day and lack-a-day, the whirligig of time and fortune, the topsyturviness of luck, the wooden shoe going up and the polished heel descending a French gunboat, a conquered island kingdom of

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • But lack-a-day, it took four trailers, thirty days apart, to compass its return.

    EDITORIAL CRIMES – A PROTEST 2010

  • Master Manners denies it, of course -- but lack-a-day, what ails thee now?

    Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday

  • He still, however, slept on, and did not wake till he found himself in the mouth of the cow, who had taken him up with a mouthful of hay: "Good lack-a-day!" said he, "how did I manage to tumble into the mill?"

    My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales Edric Vredenburg

  • Oh, well-a-day and lack-a-day, the whirligig of time and fortune, the topsyturviness of luck, the wooden shoe going up and the polished heel descending a French gunboat, a conquered island kingdom of

    The Princess 1918

  • Good lack-a-day, if he should die, what a concern it will be to his parents!

    XIII. Containing the Great Address of the Landlady. Book VII 1917

  • But lack-a-day, it took four trailers, thirty days apart, to compass its return.

    Editorial Crimes 1901

  • Now, lack-a-day! did God ever put breath into such a fool as Michael Easover of Romsey?

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Now, lack-a-day! did God ever put breath into such a fool as Michael Easover of Romsey?

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Now, lack-a-day! did God ever put breath into such a fool as Michael Easover of Romsey?

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

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