Sentence examples for alas within from inspiring English sources
"Two souls do dwell, alas, within my breast!", he says.
TWO souls do dwell, alas!, within my breast," cries the title character of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust".
Alas, within a few months Madonna had penned an open letter pleading for forgiveness from her Aussie fans.
Alas, within a couple of columns of print, I came upon Ali Smith's verdict on AS Byatt's own current volume ("proof of the contemporary robustness and elasticity of the form").
Alas, within a few days of installing the ugly speakers in the middle of her living room, she'll no longer be comparing them with the sleeker speakers whose acoustic properties she can no longer quite remember.
Alas, within less than a year, Lumumba would be dead, assassinated with the connivance of Western agencies, and the country turned over to neocolonial rule.
Goethe's hero Faust declared: "Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for mastery there".
The episode's title is taken from a line in the Dylan Thomas poem Ballad of the Long-legged Bait, which was first published in 1946's Deaths and Entrances; while the quotation displayed at the beginning—"Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast"—is taken from Goethe's Faust, a two-part 19th century play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
This reaction is catalyzed by ALA synthase (ALAS).
My working assumption is that the political class – and, alas, elements within the law and order agencies – have slowly been bent to the will of the moneyed elite, not least via the media branch of that elite, in the 40 years since the war-hardened generation that made the postwar settlement began fading away and the free-market crowd staged a cyclical revival.
