Second-best

"There's a quote from Frank Sinatra, who says, 'Second-best singer in this country is George Jones,' " Keith Richards wrote in his recent memoir.

Heartache Anthem Eddie Dean 2011

Second-best would have been an extension of 2010 law no death tax on a temporary basis.

Are you in favor of raising taxes? Jennifer Rubin 2010

Second-best strategy, which in my dreams Obama is considering: strike into the tribal lands of Pakistan, kill Osama bin Laden, and declare the war on terror won.

Matthew Yglesias » The Strategy Gap in Afghanistan 2008

Second-best strategy, which in my dreams Obama is considering: strike into the tribal lands of Pakistan, kill Osama bin Laden, and declare the war on terror won.

Matthew Yglesias » The Strategy Gap in Afghanistan 2008

Second-best would be to continue with the development of the current system of reservations or ghettoes.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

The Laws are confessedly a Second-best, an inferior Ideal, to which Plato has recourse, when he finds that the city of

Laws 2006

Second-best show, and a strong contender for coolest: Nine Inch Nails and Meat Beat Manifesto at the Drexel University Student Center, a venue that held about 300 on a good day.

Do you Know Where You Are? You’re In Middle Age, Baby. And You’re Gonna Die « Whatever 2006

Second-best was 1994 when I played for the Rangers.

NHL - National Hockey League - Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh 2002

If you yet incline to toy with the notion, carry it on and compile a list of the Hundred Second-best Books: nay, if you will, continue until you find yourself solemnly, with a brow corrugated by responsibility, weighing the claims (say) of Velleius Paterculus, Paul and Virginia and Mr Jorrocks to admission among the Hundred Tenth-best Books.

XI. Of Selection 1920

Second-best certainly never suited the ambitious policy of the Midland, and so the offer was rejected, and their line to London made.

Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920