All 4 Uses of
alternative
in
Oliver Twist
- So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, not they), of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it.†
Chpt 2
- This flood of tears left Mr. Sowerberry no alternative. If he had hesitated for one instant to punish Oliver most severely, it must be quite clear to every experienced reader that he would have been, according to all precedents in disputes of matrimony established, a brute, an unnatural husband, an insulting creature, a base imitation of a man, and...
Chpt 7 *alternative = other possibility
- 'He knows the alternative,' said Mr. Browlow.†
Chpt 49
- 'A word from me, and the alternative has gone for ever.'†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(alternative as in: an alternative plan) something available as another possibility