alternating

• Thus for a while, and without speaking, they dipped their heads, alternating, to the box Presently, Cis lifted the bouquet--almost with reverence. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
• But Jerrold, who had lately moved from Regent's Park to his house, West Lodge, at Putney Lower Common, continued there to write Caudle Lectures "by the yard"--alternating the locale, according to Mark Lemon, with a tavern in Bouverie Street. —  The History of "Punch"
• Others too felt that burning flood The second torpedo they caught and deflected on a beam of alternating-current magnetism that repelled it. —  The Ultimate Weapon
• The two intermediate rollers had an alternating, lateral motion which spread or distributed the ink sideways before it reached the lowest roller This press was the first to have ink-distributing rollers and the first to be run by steam power. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
• We have seen that the subconscious mind may become, so to speak, diseased_--this consisting very largely in the processes of dissociation, complex formation, etc. Further, we have seen that this dissociated, automatically-acting "self" may exist either as a separate stream of thought running alongside of, or rather below the main current; or may alternate with it, by rising to the surface and occupying the whole stage to the exclusion of the normal consciousness--when we have those cases of alternating or multiplex personality which have so puzzled psychologists for many years--and the correct interpretation of which we are only just beginning to realize. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal

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