What is "alternately"

Usage examples of "alternately".

He justly observes, that in the recent changes, both religions had been alternately disgraced by the seeming acquisition of worthless proselytes, of those votaries of the reigning purple, who could pass, without a reason, and without a blush, from the church to the temple, and from the altars of Jupiter to the sacred table of the Christians.

If the discharges are very profuse, the fluid extract of cranesbill may be administered in from two to ten-drop doses alternately with the bismuth.

The hillside, which had appeared to be one slope, was really a succession of undulations, so that the advancing infantry alternately dipped into shelter and emerged into a hail of bullets.

Sterling had told Saint Just were workshops for the conference attendees had begun in earnest after luncheon, so that the hallways on the conference floor were alternately deserted or crowded with women going here, coming from there.

This was based on a year of twelve months containing alternately, thirty days and twenty-nine days, giving a total of 354 days.

After all this talking, of which my ardour began to weary, we abandoned ourselves to love, then to sleep, then to love again, and so on alternately till day-break.

She suppressed, however, the desire, though she held them alternately to her eyes, conjecturing their contents, and bewailing for their impassioned writer the cruel answer they must receive.

The singers alternately leaned toward Brod, then shied off again, to his embarrassment and the amusement of everyone else.

He rolled up his sleeves and sipped it, hands trembling, while he gazed alternately at the cityscape below and at the large veins that ran down his arms and across his wrists.

The air was warm, and smelt alternately lush and foul, as trees fruited and factory waste coagulated in thickening flows.

Courts of Justice toward the park where I had last left the car provided for me by the city council, deep in cogitation, when a familiar figure caught my eye on the steep, curved steps leading up to the entrance: fat, sweating in his white suit, sucking alternately at a ropy cigar and the straw stuck in a soft drink bottle.

In seconds Old Conc had gone from being alternately crazy and intimidating to a wretched shell of a human being.

Brianna ducked under the hanging quilt, turning to reach back for Jemmy, who was alternately coughing and crying, having not liked the cold water at all.

His gilded cymar flowed like water on the breeze, alternately caressing and concealing his limbs.

Souls, the Ancients held, having emanated from the Principle of Light, partaking of its destiny here below, cannot be indifferent to nor unaffected by these revolutions of the Great Luminary, alternately victor and overcome during every Solar revolution.