howbeit
Example Sentences
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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
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
In good faith I had once again nigh forgotten your Faerie Queene; howbeit, by good chance, I have now sent her home at the last neither in better or worse case than I found her.
From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
I wryte all thingis, howbeit thay be of lytill wecht, to the end that ze may tak the best of all to judge upon.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
“Moly,” the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig, howbeit with the gods all things are possible.’
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew
