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

And as soon as it was day, Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men: howbeit they had neither suitable armor nor swords.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

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 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

I had been able even to distinguish words, howbeit in a language that I did not comprehend.

From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Gilson, Charles