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

Then he comforted his knights, and said, "Be not dismayed, my friends, howbeit ye have lost the day; be of good cheer; to-morrow I myself will be in the field, and fare with you."

From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown

All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

Father and Erasmus had some astronomick talk; howbeit, methoughte Erasmus less familiar with ye heavenlie bodies than father is.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

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)