alternately
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And after nearly an hour or so of digging, performed alternately by Detective Webster and Mr. Green, the five of us heard a sudden scraping.
From Literature
These alternately grave and impish modes recur throughout the show, aptly subtitled “Serious Play,” often combining in a single image.
He approves of credit, too, despite the human proclivity to alternately gorge and fast on loans and bonds and mortgages.
None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.
From Salon
Details of the prints reveal Goya’s hand—alternately frenetic, delicate and weighty—with fresh intimacy.
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