Else

Examples

• She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There's money in this case, Watson, if there is nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• As in everything else, it has taken time to overcome the faults of the early trucks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It may be questioned whether some of the present pedagogical interest in the matter of values of studies is not either excessive or else too narrow. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As yet only China knew of the Huns; there were no Turks in Western Turkestan or anywhere else then, no Tartars in the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What else can be the consequence, said Herbert, in explanation, if he will cut the cheese? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Surely, I would say, all men do not wear those shocking nightcaps; else all women's illusions had been destroyed on the first night of their marriage! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I asked Mr. Farebrother to talk to her, because she had forbidden me--I didn't know what else to do, said Fred, apologetically. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There is no one else, and no sound could alarm those who are in the farther wing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• What more he was, or what else he had in him, if anything, let him show for himself. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I asked at once that Sigel might be relieved, and some one else put in his place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Colonel was so kind--Mr. Crawley might be offended and pay back the money, for which she could get no such good interest anywhere else. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Elinor tried to talk of something else; but Miss Steele could not be kept beyond a couple of minutes, from what was uppermost in her mind. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He never did anything else in connection with Lloyd's that I could find out, except come back again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But you won't ever leave me for some one else. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• No, no; it must be something else if he were really vexed, Ladislaw is a sort of gypsy; he thinks nothing of leather and prunella. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If it had been anyone else I'd have. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Papa, and every one else, says you had better go. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She wondered if she should have minded detection half so much from any one else. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest investigation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I hope so, said Mr. Chichely, else he ought not to have married that nice girl we were all so fond of. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But, my friends, have we partaken of anything else? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Not knowing what else to do with my girl while I was nursing in Cumberland, I put her to school at Limmeridge. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But if no one else asks her--you know they NEVER go to hotels. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Is there anybody else I can send to you, or any other directions I can give before I leave, respecting what you would wish to be done? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am more tired of that than of anything else, said Maurice emphatically. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I was soon able to call for bread and drink, or whatever else I wanted. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I have taken the house now: everything else can soon be got ready--can it not? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At any rate, it was more like a hearse than any thing else, though to speak by the card, it was a gondola. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Ronda