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
The lily hath a long stalk and seldom more than one, howbeit it hath somtyme II.
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit He that sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these speak I unto the world.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
And thereupon he, understanding our determination, presently put out a white flag and yielded; howbeit they refused to strike their own sails, for that they were sworn never to strike to any Englishman.
From Privateers and Privateering by E. P. Statham
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 Fanny Burney
