Sentence examples for lawks from inspiring English sources

This time, however, it's as though as soon as my body knew what was going on, it just let everything out in readiness (lawks, let's hope it's the same story for the birth).

Oh lawks.

"Lawks-a-mercy !" I shall cry, "A bare-nekkid well.

All this is a pity, because when she stops straining at lawks-a-mussy chirpiness and analyzes punctuation malpractice, she is often persuasive, as on the tendency of lazy writers to reticulate their sentences with dashes: "The dash is less formal than the semicolon, which makes it more attractive; it enhances conversational tone; and... it is capable of quite subtle effects.