Примеры употребления для alack
1. In the past few days he has also, alack alas, been hit by nest–feathering troubles of his own.
2. He sits by the fire, wringing his crooked old hands and lamenting: Alack, I am worn to a ravelling! said the Tailor of Gloucester, and went sadly to bed, while his cynical cat, Simpkin, snarled and spat on the windowsill.
3. Mofaz, like McCain, is offering a kind of "stability," which is translated in the Israeli experience into static thinking that clings to the rule of military people; Livni, like Obama, represents change by virtue of the fact of being a woman, a civilian and – alas and alack – lacking in military experience.