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The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAY
That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
Rather late that evening we administered extreme unction to him, for otherwise he was sufficiently prepared for it.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUS
It rather annoyed her than otherwise, but her husband was pleased, and that was enough for Georgie.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Otherwise, a child's box of tin soldiers sent by post would have been just the thing for the Dardanelles landing!
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
If the context makes an otherwise indefinite thing definite, it is sufficient.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)
In short, on my arrival I was at once much disappointed, and this disappointment rather increases than otherwise.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFER
They gave a sort of daring unconscious eighteenth-century coquetry to what was otherwise a somewhat severe style of beauty.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
We knew then that his medicine was bad medicine, otherwise the white baas without the pictures could not have killed him.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUS
And it was well that the weather had moderated; for otherwise there would have been a man lost.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUS
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WORDS RELATED TO OTHERWISE

  • alternative
  • else
  • ere
  • instead
  • oppositely
  • otherwise
  • rather
  • substitute
  • uncertainty
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