pis aller
Example Sentences
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Yet he is largely a pis aller for the would-be reader of Cassius Dio.
I can lead the horses,” he suggested as a pis aller.
From At Fault by Chopin, Kate
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.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
It was nothing to either Herbert or me, for we both found Mrs. Day a much more lively pis aller in conversation than Eleanor.
From Boston Neighbours In Town and Out by Poor, Agnes Blake
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.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
