("And may the blessed saints have an eye upon her tender slumbers!") Here Giles paused to sigh amain, to fold his arms, to cross his legs, to frown and shake gloomy head; having done the which, he took breath and sang again as followeth: "Alack-a-day, alas and woe!

or 'Alack-a-day!'

"Slack-a-day," quoth he, "look ye, now!

For the most part, they find some conveyance back; but even then these industrious creatures carry loads from twenty-four to thirty miles a-day, besides walking back unladen some part of each turn!

Work-a-day times are easiest.

And now, when you remember her submission to your father's wishes in the past, and her single-hearted devotion to yourself, you are shocked and disappointed to find that she can wish to descend from her beautiful and guarded solitude here, and mix with her fellow-creatures in the work-a-day world.

Both men and women wash themselves twice a-day, and always before eating; and those who neglect this ceremony are reputed heretics.

He had a rare command of an excellent work-a-day dramatic style, clear, vigorous, free from conceit and affectation.

"Knights and ladies and shields and swords, Ah, well-a-day for the grand old days!

With love and despair in their golden hair, By the flowing river of Aise. "They have flitted away from hall and bower, Ah, well-a-day for the rich old days!

As night was near at hand, we were glad enough to reach our lodgings, which were situated on one side of the town, in the house of a German named Linderoth; they were very comfortable, and, as we afterwards found, exceedingly reasonable, seeing that for our rooms and three good meals a-day we only paid one milreis (2s. 2d.).

a "quart of corn a-day," the legal allowance of food[C]!

Even in work-a-day seasons the laxity of control gave rise to occasional complaint.

" Ah, well-a-day!

"Lack-a-day, well-a-day!"

"Lack a-day, well-a-day!"

"Lack a-day, well-a-day!"

Our hero, though he had worn moleskin trousers and jersey shirts, and had worked down a pit twelve hours a-day with a pickaxe, had never reconciled himself to female roughnesses.

But I'd rather be the means of restoring that fellow to his poor wife, than be sent to all the four quarters of the globe with a guinea a-day for personal expenses.'

The proposed journey to Sydney, with a pound a-day allowed for expenses, and the traveller's salary going on all the time, would put a nice sum of ready-money into Bagwax's pocket.

The twenty-minute-a-day garden, by Albert C. Burrage, Jr. New ed.

After a passage of forty-eight days, I arrived here on the 26th of October, almost naked and starved, having been reduced to a pint of water a-day, and almost in despair of ever seeing land, by reason of the calms we met with between the coast of Arabia and Malabar.

My boy, I will instruct thee in a piece of poetry, That haply erst thou hast not heard: in hell there is a tree, Where once a-day do sleep the souls of false forsworen lovers, With open hearts; and there about in swarms the number hovers Of poor forsaken ghosts, whose wings from off this tree do beat Round drops of fiery Phlegethon to scorch false hearts with heat.

Its work-a-day world is not even a faint reflex of the vast and complex universe.

"Lack-a-day! Lack-a-day!" sighed she, as after a little screaming she gathered herself up again.