alternato
= participio passato di alternare
= che si alterna , che si avvicenda<
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Combattevano senza toccarsi ma invasi dallo stesso delirio che agita gli amanti acri d'odio carnale sul letto scosso, quando il desiderio e la distruzione, la voluttà e lo strazio sono una sola febbre. Il mondo non fu se non polvere dietro di loro; le forze si alternarono e si confusero.(D'Annunzio - Forse che sì forse che no)
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Il secondo giorno, dopo una notte in cui l'insonnio e l'incubo si alternarono, egli rivide il dottore. Il delirio della demente era cresciuto. Non era stato ancóra possibile trarla dalla tana senza provocare una resistenza pericolosa. Il padre e lo Sciacallo, che a vicenda custodivano l'adito, avevano espresso il loro pensiero su la necessità di chiudere l'inferma in una Casa di salute. D'entrambi, e della feroce cupidigia ch'essi celavano sotto la sollecitudine, il dottore fece un ritratto spietato. Il proposito fermo d'impedire il delitto, a qualunque costo, ridiede all'agitato la pacatezza esteriore. (D'Annunzio - Forse che sì forse che no)
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alternato
= participio passato di alternare
= che si alterna , che si avvicenda<>
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avvicendare
= verbo trans. alternare periodicamente<>
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contraffilare
= verbo trans. in calzoleria, togliere il contraffilo intorno alla suola della scarpanell'addoppiare la seta, alternare i fili grossi con i sottili, i cupi con i chiari, affinché si accompagnino meglio. <>
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interpolare
= verbo transitivo , effettuare una interpolazione - alternare , frammischiare . <>
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reciprocare
= verbo trans. avvicendare, alternare <>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth, feeling really anxious, was determined to go to her, thoughthe carriage was not to be had; and as she was no horsewoman, walkingwas her only alternative.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth.<>
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Jane ran to her uncle and aunt, and welcomed andthanked them both, with alternate smiles and tears.<>
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To be sure, it would have been more for the advantageof conversation had Miss Lydia Bennet come upon the town; or, as thehappiest alternative, been secluded from the world, in some distantfarmhouse.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Of course you know the alternative,' replied the visitor coolly.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Sam well knew that he had only to remain quiet, and the women weresure to talk; so he looked alternately at the tin saucepan, the toastedcheese, the wall, and the ceiling, in profound silence.<>
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Having expressedhis determination to perform this painful duty of a brother with properfirmness, he burst into tears, knocked his hat over his eyes, and,making the best of his way back, knocked double knocks at the door ofthe Borough Market office, and took short naps on the steps alternately,until daybreak, under the firm impression that he lived there, and hadforgotten the key.<>
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I had no alternative.<>
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He could have wished to have spared that company thepainful and disgusting detail on which he was about to enter, but asthe explanation had been demanded of him, he had no alternative butto state, boldly and distinctly, that he had been required to eat coldmeat.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As the real state of the case dawned upon Mr. Winkle's mind, he lookedvery terrible, and said he was perfectly satisfied; but at the sametime, said so with an air that left Mr. Dowler no alternative but toinfer that if he had not been, something most horrible and destructivemust inevitably have occurred.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I merely wished you to know, my dear, that I should not have allowedmy young friend to see you in this clandestine way, if the situationin which you are placed had left him any alternative; and, lest theimpropriety of this step should cause you any uneasiness, my love, itmay be a satisfaction to you, to know that I am present.<>
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Thelatter gentleman, who fastened his coat all the way up to his chin bymeans of a pin and a button alternately, had a very coarse red face, andlooked like a drunken chaplain; which, indeed, he was.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'My dear friends,' said Mr. Pickwick, shaking hands alternately with Mr.Tupman, Mr. Winkle, and Mr. Snodgrass, who were the three visitors inquestion, 'I am delighted to see you.<>
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Upon which we ate it ourselves,in alternate bites.<>
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As that gentleman had his hands entangledin his cravat, he had no alternative but to follow him to the floor.<>
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Here, in the twinklingof an eye, he divested himself of his coat, put on a threadbare garment,which he took out of a desk, hung up his hat, pulled forth a few sheetsof cartridge and blotting-paper in alternate layers, and, sticking a penbehind his ear, rubbed his hands with an air of great satisfaction.<>
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