pis aller
Example Sentences
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To the present writer it seems a pis aller which high-minded married persons should avoid if they can practise self-restraint.
From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph
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.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
There might be a way open, perhaps, by my offering to marry that worthy lady! but that would be quite a pis aller.
From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Wyss, Jean Rudolph
When I wouldn't take her place, a pis aller merely.
From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter
