Woe

“Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.” — Milton.

“[They] weep each other's woe.” — Pope.

“Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?” — South.

“O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life].” — Chaucer.

“Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!” — Isa. xlv. 9.

“Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray!” — Sir W. Scott.

“His clerk was woe to do that deed.” — Robert of Brunne.

“Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.” — Chaucer.

“And looking up he waxed wondrous woe.” — Spenser.