It wasn't love-she knew enough to realize that-but it was one hell of a fine substitute.

Linnaeus recommended the leaves as a fine substitute for hops in brewing beer.

If this wasn't opulence, it was a damned fine substitute.

The back page, to Malone a cross between sports and sitcom, was a fine substitute for caffeine.

As for chunks of pumpkin, other winter squashes, especially butternut, are fine substitutes.

Ground turkey or chicken is a fine low-fat substitute.

It is a fine low-fat substitute for sour cream.

Especially when there are so many fine substitutes: spade, porch monkey, jiggaboo.

If you cannot find cultured buttermilk, plain yogurt mixed with milk makes a fine substitute.

But its new site, in a white cast-iron building on 23rd Street off Fifth Avenue, is a fine substitute.