All 3 Uses of
alternative
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …have her or swing for her, when the husband frequently, after some words passed between the two concerning her relations with the other lucky mortal (he having had the pair watched), inflicted fatal injuries on his adored one as a result of an alternative postnuptial liaison by plunging his knife into her, until it just struck him that Fitz, nicknamed Skin-the-Goat, merely drove the car for the actual perpetrators of the outrage and so was not, if he was reliably informed, actually…†
Chpt 16
- On the other hand it was altogether far and away too late for the Sandymount or Sandycove suggestion so that he was in some perplexity as to which of the two alternatives.†
Chpt 16
- What were then the alternatives before the, premeditatedly (respectively) and inadvertently, keyless couple?†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(alternative as in: an alternative plan) something available as another possibility