The structural facts are such as to leave no alternative but to adopt the view of the origin of such coal as I have described, which has just been stated; but, happily, the process is not without analogy at the present day.

Be their individual motives of reasoning what they might, they at length adopted the alternative above alluded to, and resigned their places.

The allies chose the latter alternative; and then began a series of calamities and sufferings unparalleled in the history of war since the retreat of Napoleon from Moscow.

Suppose A, B, C to be three forms, while B is intermediate in structure between A and C. Then the doctrine of evolution offers four possible alternatives.

But if we accept the alternative offered by the advocates of strict construction, we shall not find that their case is strengthened.

It was Cora who suggested an alternative: that Hawk-eye and the two Mohicans should make for Fort William Henry and procure from their father, Munro, enough men to take them back in safety.

The friends of the enterprise were in despair, and for some time saw no other alternative than to apply to Congress for an additional appropriation.

In closing the German edition of my book with these words, I expressed the conviction that "for a State such as Austria there could only be one choice"; but unhappily her statesmen have preferred the fatal alternative.

Seeing her displeased, he urges for the morrow: but, before she can answer, gives her the alternative of other days.

But now the advocate took a sudden turn, and calmly asked the jury to consider with him the alternative outlined by the prosecution in the evidence set before them.

She accordingly espoused the cause of the Duc de Guise, who, having no other alternative by which to rid himself of the Marquise, did not scruple to deny the authenticity of the signature ascribed to him; and he had no sooner resolutely done this, than the Regent placed the affair in the hands of the President Jeannin, who with his usual ability at length succeeded in inducing Madame de Verneuil to withdraw her claims.

One may present an alternative in meanings, another permit no liberty of choice.

They will never be published, but they afford an alternative to cocaine.

I am sure that as reasonable men you will reject both these alternatives as absurd.

And then I turned homeward, despising myself, yet finding no alternative within my reach.

" "Very well, you know the alternative.

As a retreat, however, upon Richmond would have surrendered to the enemy a large and fertile tract of country, it was desirable, if possible, to avoid that alternative; and the attack on the Federal right followed.

A further reason led him to refuse the alternative of war.

By these various proceedings, therefore, the State of South Carolina has forced the General Government, unavoidably, to decide the new and dangerous alternative of permitting a State to obstruct the execution of the laws within its limits or seeing it attempt to execute a threat of withdrawing from the Union.

And, indeed, I believe he was then balancing another alternative in his mind.

"Either and or denote an alternative; as 'I will take either road at your pleasure.'"Ib., p. 63; Imp.

Here they dispute the alternatives of power and emolument, or prisons and guillotines; and the sole result to the people is the certainty of being sacrificed to the fears, and plundered by the rapacity of either faction which may chance to acquire the superiority.

He raised an insuperable barrier to any revelationsif, indeed, there existed any mysteryby his alternative.

These apprehensions left the members implicated no alternative but to anticipate hostilities, or fall a sacrifice; for they knew the instant of attack would be that of destruction, and that the people were too indifferent to take any part in the contest.

The Dey sent for Consul O'Brien, and laid this alternative before him: either the Washington should take the Algerine Ambassador to Constantinople, or he, the Dey, would no longer hold to his friendship with the United States.