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Prospero: Thou hast done well, fine Ariel. Follow me; Hark what thou else shalt do me.
2013, Keith T. Krawczynski, Daily Life in the Colonial City:
As with most else in society, early Americans believed that health and healing were in God's hand.
Usage notes
This adjective usually follows an indefinite or interrogative pronoun, as in the examples above. In other cases, the adjective other is typically used.
The crust of ice on the else rippling brook was so transparent, and so thin in texture, that the lively water might of its own free will have stopped—in Tom’s glad mind it had—to look upon the lovely morning.
Usage notes
(otherwise): This word frequently follows interrogative adverbs, such as how, why, and when, as well as the derived however, whyever, and whenever.
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He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.