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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
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But lack-a-day, it took four trailers, thirty days apart, to compass its return.
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Master Manners denies it, of course -- but lack-a-day, what ails thee now?
Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday
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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
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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 1918
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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
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But lack-a-day, it took four trailers, thirty days apart, to compass its return.
Editorial Crimes 1901
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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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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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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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