I felt myself getting excited over the prospect of thinking I will have finally found HIM and when I caught him in my sights I knew alas won't be him and I walked away rejected and wondering if maybe this year HE won't show up.
But not ignorance of the traditional "I really wish I knew, but alas, I don't" variety.
What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do it.
And then, alas, I know what he'll say: What the hell do you think I think of that?
Or even worse, in court (this, alas, is something I know about).
I know it's time to sober up and show them the door; but alas, I'm weak.
Abe recognized, before many, that the venerable reader of what was known, alas only too accurately, as the Great Gray Lady was dying off.
I know he likes softly scrambled eggs, because that was what was served at the buffet when I was (alas, only once) invited to the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills to see a movie with about a hundred other people.
And I also knew by now, alas, far more about divine inspiration than I dared admit, for I knew how I worked myself up into my own visions, and how frequently — indeed, incessantly — the visions God granted to me differed from the visions He granted to my father.
The attorneys general I knew tried to clamp down on United States attorneys going before cameras to publicize indictments -- not, alas, with complete success, however.
