howbeit
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When I became Joe’s ’prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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The Montanines also that remayned at Siena, liued in quyet, wythoute chalenge or quarell of their aduersaries, howbeit mutuall talke and haunt of others company vtterly surceased.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William
I will never again, howbeit, write aniething savouring ever soe little of levitie or absurditie.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
I should as lieve you had not tied such an ugly knot, I won't say to the contrary; howbeit, as the thing is done, we may as well make the best of it.
From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
And although he was counselled to the contrary, yet would he never abandon his design, howbeit afterwards he repented of it sorely.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Zurara, Gomes Eannes de