alternately
/ˈɔl.tɚ.nət.li/ adverb C1- In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order. · Driving downtown is restricted to bikes with odd and even license plate numbers alternately by day of the month.
- By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
- Alternatively.
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“What, no wine?” said Dantès, turning pale, and looking alternately at the hollow cheeks of the old man and the empty cupboards.
“The usurper’s conversion!” murmured the duke, looking at the king and Dandré, who spoke alternately, like Virgil’s shepherds.
An unknown person had been with him that morning, and made an appointment with him in the Rue Saint-Jacques; unfortunately, the general’s valet, who was dressing his hair at the moment when the stranger entered, heard the street mentioned, but did not catch the number.” As the police minister related this to the king, Villefort, who looked as if his very life hung on the speaker’s lips, turned alternately red and pale.
In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.
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