I cannot express the misery I felt, the longing to be away, never to see, or be seen of them again; never to be forced to speak indifferently to those with whom, in the presence of death, I had exchanged words full of weal or woe.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
For when Nancy loves a person, she loves that person through thick and thin, through weal and woe.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal; And none will doubt but that our emigration Has proved most useful to the British nation.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews