welladay
- a variation of wellaway.
Example Sentences
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O welladay on the poor boors grey, When Stig the Marshal’s bed was stain’d; For us I ween it had better been If Glepping had unborn remain’d.
From Marsk Stig a ballad by Borrow, George Henry
"Ah, welladay, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point, "the poor soul will die."
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)
Good lord! hath never woe enough Of welladay?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
And, thus she grew to think of him as gay And joyous all the while, And SHE was sorrowing—"Ah, welladay!"
From Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 by Riley, James Whitcomb
P: And morning found those who had coveted his place but yesterday crying: Ah, welladay!
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf
