"Woe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his face buried in his hands, apparently asleep. I thought I would crawl slyly up to him, and spring suddenly on him, and frighten him. I did so, but Jim was not asleep at all, but lifted up his head with such a look of unutterable woe that I was frightened myself, and said: 'Why, Jim, what is the matter?' Jim cried out: 'O, my boys! my boys! ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler
... now, farewell! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee!— And thy dark sin!—oh! I could drink the cup If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders
... has come to that fair girl, woe to the man or woman who has harmed her, that is all ...
— A Successful Shadow - A Detective's Successful Quest • Harlan Page Halsey
... some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know, That never feels ...
— Familiar Quotations • Various
... experience would show Just how (by Allah's grace) To make this world of sin and woe Into a better place; And, though we failed to cure at sight All ills that want allaying, At least (between the Acts) we ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920 • Various
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