pis aller
Example Sentences
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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
Yet he is largely a pis aller for the would-be reader of Cassius Dio.
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
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
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
