All 10 Uses of
alternative
in
The House of Mirth
- Ah, I see; I might have known you were fully provided with alternatives.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Meanwhile, as October advanced she had to face the alternative of returning to the Trenors or joining her aunt in town.†
Chpt 1.9
- What he could not accept, in his own case, was the makeshift alternative of a relation that should be less than this: that should leave some portions of his nature unsatisfied, while it put an undue strain on others.†
Chpt 1.14
- Mrs. Bry, to Mrs. Fisher's despair, had not progressed beyond the point of weighing her social alternatives in public.†
Chpt 2.1
- Or could Bertha—the dread alternative sprang on her suddenly—could Bertha, left to herself, have gone ashore to rejoin him?†
Chpt 2.2
- The worst of it was that, in interpreting Miss Bart's state of mind, so many alternative readings were possible; and one of these, in Selden's troubled mind, took the ugly form suggested by Mrs. Fisher.†
Chpt 2.3
- It would be difficult to follow her there, and still more difficult, should he do so, to contrive the opportunity for a private word; and he had almost decided on the unsatisfactory alternative of writing, when the ceaseless diorama of the square suddenly unrolled before him the figures of Lord Hubert and Mrs. Bry.†
Chpt 2.3
- There, while the Brys hovered within over the last agitating alternatives of the MENU, he kept watch for the guests from the Sabrina, who at length rose on the horizon in company with the Duchess, Lord and Lady Skiddaw and the Stepneys.†
Chpt 2.3
- It was bitter enough for Lily to ask a favour of Grace Stepney, but the alternative was bitterer still; and one morning she presented herself at Mrs. Peniston's, where Grace, for the facilitation of her pious task, had taken up a provisional abode.†
Chpt 2.4
- Starvation is not the only alternative.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(alternative as in: an alternative plan) something available as another possibility