| 单词 | pis aller |
| 例句 | If pis aller sounds ominous, well, it is. How pregnancy resulted in LPGA veteran Karine Icher returning to Q School and, at 40, recovering her exemption - Golf Digest 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z When I wouldn't take her place, a pis aller merely. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z I don't offer you my work as a pis aller. Carlyon Sahib 2011-10-23T02:00:21.590Z Substitutes for butcher’s meat too often suggest the purely vegetarian dish that to most people is but a pis aller. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z It was nothing to either Herbert or me, for we both found Mrs. Day a much more lively pis aller in conversation than Eleanor. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z It looks mean and ungrateful to the dear old place and our friends to go back to them as a kind of pis aller after having exhausted the pleasures of vagabondising. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z My poor fellow went off in a fit, last week, and I took that Irishman as a pis aller. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Dinner was looked forward to with curiosity, as well as appetite; my wife, as usual, distrusting our experiments, was not sanguine of success, and made ready some plain food as a pis aller. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z Just tell me that I'm nothing but a pis aller, the sort of man you wouldn't want as a husband. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z A young man lacking means, and possessing only a moderate degree, who feels inclined, as many do, to drift into schoolmastering as a pis aller, should read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest this book. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z It seemed to me, in my then ignorance, like a pis aller, when the postillion said, 'Let us try the "France,"' and little prepared me for the handsome, but somewhat small, hotel before me. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands My poor fellow went off in a fit last week, and I took that Irishman as a pis aller. The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts "Awful stick, but a pis aller I'm afraid." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 Too much forethought is fatal to progress, and if I had really considered difficulties I could have stayed in England and written a story instead, a most loathsome pis aller. A Tramp's Notebook I can lead the horses,” he suggested as a pis aller. At Fault Orthodox Socialism is still a case of the "lesser evil," what the French call a pis aller. The New Society If conscience must reign supreme, all government is a pis aller, and in anarchy the true millennium must be found. Henry VIII. "Because I wished to quit Trianon, and I was obliged to go with some one; I could no longer remain a 'pis aller,' rejected by Gilbert." The Queen's Necklace Not that the law had any peculiar attraction for him; he rather accepted it as a pis aller; for, of course, he had to study something. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Yet he is largely a pis aller for the would-be reader of Cassius Dio. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form This I suppose the pis aller of their affairs, while their probable event is a peaceable settlement of them. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 I would rather live under the feet of the Czar than in those states of perfectibility imagined by Fourier and Cabet, if I might choose my 'pis aller.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II I miss my wholesome bitters, my daily dose of contradiction; and you need not be jealous of my book, for it is a miserable pis aller for our interminable talks. Records of a Girlhood Was it the only way to get rid of the lady—a pis aller?—a last remnant of the old-fashioned technique? Richard Wagner Composer of Operas It was just a coincidence of the 'premier pas' and the 'pis aller.' The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 To the present writer it seems a pis aller which high-minded married persons should avoid if they can practise self-restraint. Outspoken Essays It was true I might find a political stalwart in the smoking-room—but that was a last resort, a desperate and ignominious pis aller. The Inheritors As for their Sanscrit studies again, that was at bottom only a pis aller. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 It is perhaps a pis aller, but is not No Thoroughfare written up everywhere else? The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell It is jolly good often, but only a pis aller in comparison to the real thing. The Price of Things He knew very well he was the pis aller of the party, and only danced when Parson Frank was not dragged out, nothing loth, by his little daughter. Chantry House "I fixed on these lines as a pis aller; and they have done all and more than I wished, by bringing you back here for at least a moment." Two Years Ago, Volume II. But this, it must be remembered, would leave the work of Southern Slav Unity incomplete, and is only to be regarded as a pis aller. The War and Democracy As for Maud, she finds Beulah uneasy about Beekman; and having no husband herself, or any over that she cares a straw about, why she just falls upon Bob as a pis aller. Wyandotte But don't you see, if it is said that she was obliged to leave Milan, it puts us in the position of a pis aller! A Siren The young gentleman had recourse as a pis aller to his mamma. Love Me Little, Love Me Long But most of us know that our marriage is a pis aller. The Odd Women There might be a way open, perhaps, by my offering to marry that worthy lady! but that would be quite a pis aller. North and South Dinner was looked forward to with curiosity, as well as appetite; my wife, as usual, distrusting our experiments, was not sanguine of success, and made ready some plain food as a pis aller*. Swiss Family Robinson Savages can be ruled by two powers—"force," and "humbug;" accordingly, these are the instruments made use of by those in authority: where the "force" is wanting, "humbug" is the weapon as a "pis aller." The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile She was merely amusing herself with him as a provincial pis aller. The Vision Splendid The purpose of this chapter is sufficiently served in indicating that this proposal also is a pis aller, a desperate second best—like teetotalism. What's Wrong with the World Yet it is characteristic of him that he always tended to regard the writing of verse as a 'pis aller'. Shelley |
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