1 'He knows the alternative,' said Mr. Browlow.
2 This flood of tears left Mr. Sowerberry no alternative.
3 The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately.
4 By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission.
5 It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon.
6 At his feet, sat a white-coated, red-eyed dog; who occupied himself, alternately, in winking at his master with both eyes at the same time; and in licking a large, fresh cut on one side of his mouth, which appeared to be the result of some recent conflict.
7 The girl stamped her foot violently on the floor as she vented this threat; and with her lips compressed, and her hands clenched, looked alternately at the Jew and the other robber: her face quite colourless from the passion of rage into which she had gradually worked herself.
8 Mr. Gamfield's most sanguine estimate of his finances could not raise them within full five pounds of the desired amount; and, in a species of arithmetical desperation, he was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey, when passing the workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate.