Alternative

Examples

• Others again kept out of the way, hoping to escape either alternative. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Or could Bertha--the dread alternative sprang on her suddenly--could Bertha, left to herself, have gone ashore to rejoin him? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Excuse me if I allude to that which is painful to you, but I have no alternative. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Back again, to-night, to the dreadful alternative between the opium and the pain! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The alternative was that someone passing had observed the key in the door, had known that I was out, and had entered to look at the papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• There was no alternative. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• As that gentleman had his hands entangled in his cravat, he had no alternative but to follow him to the floor. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• You mentioned just now the alternative of consulting Mr. Fairlie's legal adviser to-morrow. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Unfortunately, madam, I had no possible alternative. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The alternative was filled with risk--in fact it was all risk, with but a slender chance of success. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Does your ladyship accept that alternative? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This feature he afterward abandoned, adopting the single knife, described by him as an alternative. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But as I say, what's the alternative. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Meanwhile, as October advanced she had to face the alternative of returning to the Trenors or joining her aunt in town. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Ah, I see; I might have known you were fully provided with alternatives. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the third place, it makes choice of alternatives possible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mrs. Bry, to Mrs. Fisher's despair, had not progressed beyond the point of weighing her social alternatives in public. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• So it is proposed to cut down the number of elective offices, focus the attention on a few alternatives, and turn voting into a fairly intelligent performance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We shall feel free to choose among alternatives--to take this much of socialism, insert so much syndicalism, leave standing what of capitalism seems worth conserving. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No bracing critical atmosphere plays about his mind: there are no cleansing doubts and fruitful alternatives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It certainly did that; but what are your alternatives? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• What will fascinate us in the past will be the records of inventions, of great choices, of those alternatives on which destiny seems to hang. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• On looking back to the entry referring to the lawyer's visit, we found that my recollection of the two alternatives presented was accurately correct. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But it did not suit Mr. Lennox to drive her to the first of these alternatives; so he went on. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• There were two alternatives proposed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She declined both alternatives. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Just so, Sir Percival--just so; but there are two alternatives in all transactions, and we lawyers like to look both of them in the face boldly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The fuller one's conception of possible future achievements, the less his present activity is tied down to a small number of alternatives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Checker: Spenser