pis aller
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Soh! she would secure me as a pis aller, I suppose, in case Mr. Rashleigh Osbaldistone should not take compassion upon her!
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
I miss my wholesome bitters, my daily dose of contradiction; and you need not be jealous of my book, for it is a miserable pis aller for our interminable talks.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
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
But don't you see, if it is said that she was obliged to leave Milan, it puts us in the position of a pis aller!
From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
