Do we say alternate or alternative

alternate 1159 occurrences

We were to hunt seals, and fish, and pry bivalves from the rocks at low tide, and build fires, and talk, and alternate between suspicion and security, between the danger of sedition and the insanity of men without defined purpose, world without end forever.

Put the herring in a large dish with 2 large onions sliced; make alternate layers of herring, onions and sliced lemon, 8 bay-leaves, a few cloves, whole peppers and some mustard seed.

"It seems to me that it would be better to alternate (in case of a tie), as a team able to tie its opponent on a hostile field would be entitled to consideration for this performance.

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And when we have explained themas they must be explainedby the alternate slow movements of elevation and depression which have affected the crust of the earth, we go still further back, and ask, Why these movements?

And now Beltane's breath grew short and thick, his strong hand trembled on the bridle, and he grew alternate hot and cold.

But it oftener suggests land, and, as Dionysius and Pliny compared the form of the Morea to that of the leaf of the Oriental Plane-tree, so this leaf reminds me of some fair wild island in the ocean, whose extensive coast, alternate rounded bays with smooth strands, and sharp-pointed rocky capes, mark it as fitted for the habitation of man, and destined to become a centre of civilization at last.

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The whole history of European peoples is one of alternate victories and defeats.

But the external idea of liberty is very soon metamorphosed, in his view, from the figure of an angel of light into that of a spirit of darkness; first, by his academical feeling that a great University ought not to be bullied even by a great Duke, and then by the altered temper of his own feelings, as they are played upon by the alternate vibrations of the gibes of "Hurrell Froude," and the deep tones of Mr. Keble's ministrelsy.

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Pinnæ scarcely an inch long, the lower ones very much shorter, alternate, spreading, finely serrate or incised, the base auricled.

SPECTÁBILIS Fronds pale green, one to six feet high; sterile part bipinnate, each pinna having numerous pairs of lance-oblong, serrulate pinnules alternate along the midrib.

" It was in this time of frenzied enthusiasm, of alternate hope and despondency, that Schumann wrote the seventh of his "Davidsbündlertänze."

The city itself is surrounded by walls, built of freestone, with alternate layers of Roman brick, flanked by 478 towers; the walls, however, are in several places so dilapidated as to be incapable of any defence without great reparation.

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The excited people, who had watched the dangerous experiment with alternate hope and fear, now broke into cheers for Abe Lincoln and praises for his brave act.

In praise alternate, and alternate prayer.

In praise alternate, and alternate prayer.

whose cheeks unite The differing titles of the red and white; Who Heaven's alternate beauty well display, The blush of morning, and the milky way; Whose face is Paradise, but fenced from sin: For God in either eye has placed a cherubin.

Heretofore it had been a thing taken for granted, preordained as the alternate coming of light and of darkness.

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Massacre or slavery is the alternate fortune of the two peoples.

alternative 1298 occurrences

" "I have no alternative, then, but to go to gaol.

It was a dreadful alternative to present to a people who were so numerous that they made a small nation in themselves.

"I am only the alternative.

"Yes; the mother of myof the young person for whom I am the alternative, is in a peck of trouble; I quote her verbatim.

The manufacturers chose the latter alternative.

In the closing decades of the century, however, worm pests devoured the indigo leaves with such thoroughness as to make harvesting futile; and thereby the planters were driven to seek an alternative staple.

The alternative, if it is an alternative, is resignationto the Social Democracy.

We have come to a phase in our affairs when the only alternative to a great, deliberate renascence of will and understanding is national disorder and decay.

They had ventured their all in the cattle speculation, and to abandon them to the mercy of the red devils was an alternative hard to contemplate.

But it was the only alternative, and the Indians thinking the two men were charging them, ran back out of sight.

"Oh, is that the alternative to the races?" He frowned.

When there is merely an alternative of names, or an explanatory change of terms, the comma is usually inserted; as, "We saw a large opening, or inlet.

UNDER EXCEPTION III.OF AN ALTERNATIVE OF WORDS.

"Either and or denote an alternative; as, 'I will take either road at your pleasure.'"Id.

Before making up his mind in favour of some kind of Home Rule, he examines every thinkable alternative, especially the development of Irish County Government, or a Federal arrangement in which all three of the united kingdoms would be concerned.

This may be done by making every man's livelihood and that of his children normally dependent upon his own exertions, by separating those destitute persons who cannot do work useful to the community from those who can, and by presenting these last with the alternative of voluntary effort or painful restriction.

The a priori argument is admirably illustrated by instances, reported by the sub-commissioners or given in evidence before the Commission, indicating that labouring men will not exert themselves unless they are offered the alternative of starvation or rigorous confinement, though no attempt is made to estimate the proportion of the working population of England whose character and conduct is represented by each instance.

In the minds of these objectors the only alternative to deductive thought from simple principles seems to be the attitude of Prince Bülow, in his speech in the Reichstag on universal suffrage.

Curious that these makeshift passages with their obviously second-hand material, their palpably alien mise en scène, should ever have suggested a personal experience and provoked The Quarterly to its infamous and immortal utterance: "If we ascribe the book to a woman at all, we have no alternative but to ascribe it to one who has, for some sufficient reason, long forfeited the society of her own sex.

Except upon the extreme alternative of disunion, the people of the border States were eager to espouse their quarrel, and join them in a contest for alleged political rights.

The alternative is subjection, both political and economic; and neither the exhaustion of the Central Powers in the present struggle nor the individual consolidation of the Balkan States in the subsequent settlement will suffice by themselves to avert it in the end.

The first alternative it would be idle to discuss, for the result of conditions so novel are impossible to foresee.

SEE Cohn, David L. COINDREAU, M. C. An alternative French composition book, by M. C. Coindreau & L. F. H. Lowe.

Lord Bute rashly taking advantage of this unpopularity of his enemies, advised the King to notify to his Ministers that he intended to dismiss them,and by this step, no succedaneum being prepared, reduced his Majesty to the alternative of laying his crown at the foot of Mr. Pitt, or of the Duke of Bedford; and as it proved at last, of both.

*Albóndigas* are served in the clear soup in which they have been cooked *almorzar* breakfast; eat for breakfast *almuerzo* m. breakfast *altar* m. altar *alternativa* f. alternative *alto* high, loud *altura* f. height

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