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I will not run down the hallway wailing that I've got Mexican Swine 'flu and I'm going to die, woe's me, woe's me...
Worried Imogen 2009
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Fair queen, I'll meet woe's fearfulest frown -- and smile;
Zophiel A Poem Maria Gowen Brooks
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But woe's me! that requires thought, consideration -- the writing out a regular plan or plot -- above all, the adhering to one -- which I never can do, for the ideas rise as I write, and bear such a disproportioned extent to that which each occupied at the first concoction, that (cocksnowns!)
Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball
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Now I charge you to be careful, woe's me, that ever I be going to leave you.
Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton
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The mist from woe's white mountain, spring and stream,
Freedom, Truth and Beauty Edward Doyle
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She nothing knows, but, woe's me! laments Polyxena, nor does she apprehend her new misfortunes.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Woe's me! never be happy again; woe's me! never again.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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"For though I do love her, she, by reason o 'my ill-favoured looks, the which, woe's me, I may not alter, loveth not me, as I do judge."
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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By what crime, O Sleep, most gentle of gods, or by what error, have I, that am young, deserved -- woe's me!
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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To the measure of thine own agony, thy woe's refrain,
Sandhya Songs of Twilight Dhan Gopal Mukerji 1913
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