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Or else   /ɔr ɛls/   Listen
Or else

adverb
1.
In place of, or as an alternative to.  Synonyms: alternatively, instead.  "Alternatively we could buy a used car"






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"Or else" Quotes from Famous Books



... their trenches; one shell dropped in. [It would appear from this that some of the advance guards of the new defense line were either intrenching or occupying trenches made during the battles of the Marne, probably the latter, or else the writer is speaking of the actions of his battery on the 10th as well as the 12th before the invaders had retreated across the Marne.] I was enfilading them, and they tore out of the trenches, and so on, each trench in turn, and fell in hundreds. Also, ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... only made him the more outrageous. He swore every oath imaginable at her, insolently ordering her to be off with her child, and find lodgings with the villain to whom she had prostituted herself, or else he would soon pitch her and her little bratling ...
— The Black-Sealed Letter - Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. • Andrew Learmont Spedon

... Stains of Fruit from Linen.—Moisten the cloth and hold it over a piece of burning sulphur; then wash thoroughly, or else the spots ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens

... area which lacks rain. Even when the monsoon begins in earnest, there is still room for speculation and anxiety. In some years it ceases prematurely, and then the grain either does not come into ear, or else the ears are small ...
— India and the Indians • Edward F. Elwin

... by what right you address me so. But you do me wrong. I am the Podesta of Piacenza bound by an oath that it would dishonour me to break; and break it I must or else fulfil my duty here. Enough!" he added, in his haughty, peremptory fashion. "Ser ...
— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini


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