woe

Exasperated, Marilla returned to the kitchen and poured out her tale of woe to Matthew, who, between his sense of justice and his unlawful sympathy with Anne, was a miserable man.

What are we to do?” would they often exclaim in the bitterness of woe.

The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: “Woe to me a stranger!

“Woe is me,” exclaimed the Doe, “who have escaped from man, only to throw myself into the mouth of a wild beast?”