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
“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 Andrew Lang
They say that fourteen years at least have passed since she last went away; howbeit they believe her to have lived in chastity.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
“It is murmurit,” says the enactment, “that it is ane noveltie to rais summondis and move sic ane actioun aganis ane persoun that is deide, howbeit the commoun law directly providis the samin.”
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 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 R. W. (Richard William) Church
