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  • The first three would go to the Olympics, but Louie felt cheated nonetheless.†   (source)
  • It tells how he tried to save himself by hunting game and eating wild plants while nonetheless getting weaker.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless he was offensively jocular.†   (source)
  • Tinder's wound oozed a gray-green pus, odorless but nonetheless frightening.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a little too much fun, but fun nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, I was entirely fascinated by his passion for words and by how much he knew.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, I submitted an application online, because that was relatively easy.†   (source)
  • Not intentionally, perhaps, but deceived nonetheless, and so bitterly that it almost choked me.†   (source)
  • I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, Sophie made her decision.†   (source)
  • I've also represented people who have committed terrible crimes but nonetheless struggle to recover and to find redemption.†   (source)
  • It isn't quite the victory I wanted, but it's a victory nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, he answered the question truthfully: NO. The next question read: "Do you like to listen to the radio?"†   (source)
  • Williams was exultant nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Funny poetry, but poetry nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Ellie's first thought was that she was looking at a hoax-an ingenious, skillful hoax, but a hoax nonetheless.†   (source)
  • The accusation, in the past and the present, was false and ridiculous, but it nonetheless put the city on edge.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, every morning several of us were found hiding in the grasses by the soccer field.†   (source)
  • But nonetheless …. your grandmother, perhaps, she is a most difficult reminder—yes?†   (source)
  • But Dupont was of service nonetheless; von Rumpel needed a number, and he got it.†   (source)
  • Others, who hadn't attempted to flee the country but nonetheless had issues with Redd being queen, heard about the Alyssians and fled what they knew of normal life to join the resistance.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, they were extremely difficult jobs, often marked by eighty-hour workweeks, low salary and virtually no job security.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, a gun was simply part of the scene, as natural to him and his friends as pulling out a candy bar from a pocket.†   (source)
  • At the top of the stairs we make our way down a corridor lit by glowing gas lamps, and into the main waiting room of the station—not as majestic as the one in Chicago, but impressive nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Free to roam the backyard but still prisoner nonetheless.†   (source)
  • He thrust toward her a heavy quilt, none too clean even in that dim light, but a gesture of kindness nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Mama Elena knew that the quail was exquisite; nonetheless, Pedro's remark did not sit well with her, and she replied: "It's too salty."†   (source)
  • Thomas couldn't tell by the man's tone but nonetheless was surprised by his response.†   (source)
  • I think our expectation was that we would find a half— or two-thirds-full glass, that they had not done as well as the white students but nonetheless a lot were quite successful.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, they were slaves.†   (source)
  • None the less, some began to protest faintly.†   (source)
  • She surprised herself with her answer but knew it was true nonetheless.†   (source)
  • The room was cold but nonetheless he felt he could not breathe.†   (source)
  • It was never written down or spoken, but it was a deal nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, after we've dropped off the birds and volunteered to go back to the woods to gather kindling for the evening fire, I find myself wrapped in his arms.†   (source)
  • A small hope, but hope nonetheless.†   (source)
  • But lies nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, she takes Enrique in.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless it filled him with faint unease, curled up there against the light blue wallpaper like a sleeping snake.†   (source)
  • Echo's lips never moved, but my siren sang nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, we married and honeymooned quickly.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, each year when LuLing received her tax bill, the sum seemed agonizingly huge to her.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless she managed to finish a blue blouse of which she was very proud.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps," agreed Het Mssteen, "but it is the case, nonetheless."†   (source)
  • Taylor's effect on the game, which the Giants won, was not obvious but it was nonetheless great.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless we had to drive through the city in an unprotected vehicle over another causeway, the Sheik Hamad, named for the emir.†   (source)
  • It is a futile dream, a strange thought to have, but it is there nonetheless.†   (source)
  • He said she was too loud, but he liked her spunk nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, Burnham arranged to meet Atwood in New York, at the Brunswick Hotel.†   (source)
  • First, the obvious but nonetheless necessary observation: in real life, when people have any physical mark or imperfection, it means nothing thematically, metaphorically, or spiritually.†   (source)
  • Mae, dizzy and terrified, nonetheless couldn't help noticing that onstage, Francis was transformed, just as Gus had been.†   (source)
  • But she moved him nonetheless, and Paul D didn't know how to stop it because it looked like he was moving himself.†   (source)
  • Zeus probably just wanted me to get well quickly so I could endure more pain, but I was grateful nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Maybe that was why I sensed a connection between us, dim, enfolded in mystery, real nonetheless.†   (source)
  • He dragged one leg as he walked, but nonetheless he kept urging them on, as if to prove he could move faster than they could even though he limped.†   (source)
  • Sir David should know that, but he's asked me none the less.†   (source)
  • Life, although so unimportant, had none the less forced me to overcome my apathy and seek some way of earning a living, and I had found one, thank God.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say that while some things may not be scientifically provable, they can still be true nonetheless.†   (source)
  • A wearing-down kind of bravely, but bravery nonetheless.†   (source)
  • But they have some power nonetheless.†   (source)
  • He's been reading my page-one series on Skid Row, finds the details unsurprising but shocking nonetheless, and wants to know if he can come join me as I make my rounds.†   (source)
  • Her state of alarm was such that she avoided speaking at the table for fear some slip might betray her, and she became evasive even with her Aunt Escolastica, who nonetheless shared her repressed anxiety as if it were her own.†   (source)
  • But the soldier fanatics nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Subtle ones, they admit, but four distinct seasons nonetheless.†   (source)
  • And still there had been more murders after this, three more, less difficult than the first had been but murders nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Yes, but none the less true, child.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, Farmer had started some patients on triple therapy.†   (source)
  • He may be deranged, but his brilliance is none the less for it.†   (source)
  • He had enjoyed it, seeing Bonnie out in public, nervous but nonetheless smiling, talking to people, and they both had been proud of Nancy; she had done so well, remembering all her lines, and looking, as he had said to her in the course of backstage congratulations, "Just beautiful, honey-a real Southern belle."†   (source)
  • Essey's kitchen, though filthy, was nonetheless sterile in comparison to Ameh Bozorg's, and I labored there in relative contentment to create an American feast.†   (source)
  • We were not able to talk as freely during Van Rensburg's tenure as we had been before, but we were able to talk nonetheless while we worked.†   (source)
  • It's not Camel's kind of lameness, thank God, but it slows me down nonetheless.†   (source)
  • But an error nonetheless.†   (source)
  • And nonetheless, even with minimal education, they come over here, and they are an age where they should be either finishing high school or almost finishing high school.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless women periodically accosted me: "You're new?†   (source)
  • A slight exaggeration, but disquieting nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, he had chanced to look up one morning as they were trailing a herd of Mexican cattle through Lonesome Dove.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, she trembled in the red-light districts upon seeing the cheerful neon signs that she associated with so much pain.†   (source)
  • One man has been thrown clear of the fire but is dying nonetheless.†   (source)
  • But I looked into his heart that day at the petrol pump and saw him for what he is—an infidel, but a noble man nonetheless, who dedicates his life to the education of children.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, as Christmas neared, the teacher handed him a uniform and hat and told him to get ready for the annual holiday parade.†   (source)
  • She's still beautiful, nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Here was a many-faceted realm I had not quite expected to enter, but one that gave me endless fascination nonetheless: the lost realm of American boyhood in the years just before the Second World War.†   (source)
  • Modeled in the shape of a centaur, it rested on the table, but was in motion nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Standing, nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, I've learned that although hatred is good for some things, it won't make you a lot of friends.†   (source)
  • Uebelhoer was angry, but she smiled nonetheless.†   (source)
  • It is clear, nonetheless, from these legends, and from the evidence of their peculiar words and customs, that like many other folk Hobbits had in the distant past moved westward.†   (source)
  • Not that it will help them, mind you, but a noble effort, nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the public's interest quickly waned.†   (source)
  • Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and just see how splendidly we've done nonetheless.†   (source)
  • But it was me, nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Cedric, nonetheless, did most of his studying in Rockefeller Library to avoid his roommate.†   (source)
  • But seeing something that resembled his own fangs sinking into flesh—not breaking skin, but biting nonetheless—sent Vlad's fangs shooting from his gums, and suddenly it was all he could do not to rip the girl from Kristoff's arms and indulge in every last delicious drop of her.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, he soon managed to reestablish the old order and old rituals in the Zurich flat.†   (source)
  • Unlikely, considering all their meticulous planning, but a risk nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Lucien had had a rough night, but he was there nonetheless and thinking as clearly as ever.†   (source)
  • It was worn and beaten, but nonetheless it was a real baseball.†   (source)
  • But they did them nonetheless.†   (source)
  • He was very wealthy, nonetheless, and in large part because of his marriage to Martha Custis.†   (source)
  • It was payment—not in full, but a payment nonetheless—for her sweat, and her blood.†   (source)
  • "Nonetheless, that's how it is.†   (source)
  • The creche on the central square looked pretty—undoubtedly a violation of the First Amendment—but pretty nonetheless and hey, it was Christmas.†   (source)
  • We don't speak at night anymore, but she's left me her legacy nonetheless—a love for the sea and the smoothness of pearls, an appreciation of music and words, sympathy for the underdog, and a disregard for boundaries.†   (source)
  • Ignoring him nonetheless, Joe drove toward the exit.†   (source)
  • Heidi and Lily, Lily smiling a pained little smile–none the less sincere for the pain… "We were able to keep her hydrated, but we had no way to feed her.†   (source)
  • They were too distant for her to make out what they were saying, but they were voices nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Not altogether knowingly, perhaps, but none the less seriously, for all that.†   (source)
  • And I reflect on those, who though untouched directly by violence, are nonetheless victims -- victims of mistrust and misunderstanding who through lack of a political settlement miss the chance of new friendships, new horizons, because of the isolation from others that the sectarian way of life brings.†   (source)
  • She spoke quietly, but her words had sharp edges nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Your original instincts about him were on target, nonetheless—he is dangerous.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, Baughman is faced with a haunting question: Will the chain of presidential deaths be broken, or will Kennedy be its next link?†   (source)
  • These discoveries have led scientists to contradictions which are impossible, according to the human mind, but which exist in reality nonetheless.†   (source)
  • ; dit mon la verite for tell me the truth; en colaire for to be angry; mo chagren for I'm sorry), but it is nonetheless a dialect of English.†   (source)
  • Her severity was soft, but severity nonetheless, for she was a product of the South as much as I was.†   (source)
  • To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless.†   (source)
  • The jailer, who was adamant that "the slaves was belonging to Mr. Ruiz and the court'll prove it," nonetheless did admit to a reporter that it was Mr. Ruiz who appeared to cause the row down in the cells.†   (source)
  • Mr. Buxton, who probably had better things to do, nonetheless agreed to meet one night to go over the text line by line.†   (source)
  • And I thought that no matter what skin you were, no matter what your opinion of him, when you met him in person you somehow felt that you understood the subtle pressure of his grip, that it said or meant that you were the faintest brother to him, perhaps distantly removed by circumstance or blood but a brother nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, they answered him, coldly and briefly, in two words: "Eine Furstin."†   (source)
  • Kessell had even pulled in a large clan of ogres, a handful of trolls, and two score rogue verbeeg, the least of the giants but giants nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Men were again holding the bridle of the horse, talking to him, pleading; there was something oddly biblical about it, and yet even here in the dusk of defeat there was something else in the air around him; the man brought strength with his presence: doomed and defeated, he brought nonetheless a certain majesty.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, any attorney worth his salt who paid attention in law school was well versed in the basics of constitutional law, and as any fool knows, constitutional law is the cornerstone of criminal defense.†   (source)
  • "I didn't mean to rile you up, Cleva," he whispered, and then waited for her smile--a weak one but a smile nonetheless.†   (source)
  • He wasn't the one who'd been captured and imprisoned—in an admittedly breathtaking penthouse, but imprisoned nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, you worry me, Lieutenant.†   (source)
  • But you came here nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, a few minutes earlier, when he had combed his hair, he had done so with the very minimum amount of help from the mirror.†   (source)
  • "Nonetheless," the beetle said.†   (source)
  • Presidents of corporations, state governors, movie stars — people he didn't know but nonetheless understood to be lonely, and afraid of failure.†   (source)
  • But nonetheless, I think it began ' with her.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," Storrugren answered, inspecting it carefully none the less.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, suppose I were to discover some sort of rough-hewn genius?†   (source)
  • Now it was sinister, bringing a fear that was none the less real for my knowing it to be irrational, to the accompaniment of sensory distortions that must have caused me to reel as I ran.†   (source)
  • You are human beings none the less.†   (source)
  • None the less, it was such obvious sense that they had to give in.†   (source)
  • My lap has shrunk, or perhaps you have grown (though I have never believed it), but nonetheless it will always be waiting, when you need it.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, he was tainted by the event.†   (source)
  • With apologies to his colleagues, Senator Lamar explained that, although he had already expressed his views on the Silver Bill, he had "one other duty to perform; a very painful one, but one which is nonetheless clear."†   (source)
  • I felt ready, like I had returned to the world—not my old self, but myself nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Our conversations weren't exactly highbrow, I admit, but I enjoyed them nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the caller's claim still made no sense.†   (source)
  • But that part of her history was nonetheless a reservoir which she could draw from and share.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, academic astonishment had somehow vetoed prudence.†   (source)
  • The context was very different, but nonetheless it almost made my head explode.†   (source)
  • They might have been false memories, but they were memories nonetheless, stolen time.†   (source)
  • "Nonetheless," said Lamia, "we'll search in twos.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, Simkins remained confident.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, our golden agouti vanished, stolen by someone who ate it, Father suspected.†   (source)
  • He can nonetheless be anxious for the doctor to help him to find his way back to the hidden traumas.†   (source)
  • He was as scared of her as ever, but her hold over him had nonetheless diminished.†   (source)
  • Granted, the only unpaid members of the family, but members nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, most of them returned to the steps and perched once more on the worn treads.†   (source)
  • Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, she felt intrigued and found herself pondering the verse carefully.†   (source)
  • My racing thoughts were morbid and wrong, but they were there nonetheless.†   (source)
  • She was a skilled bicyclist, but Roy was nervous nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, it is our pleasure to have you.†   (source)
  • He was mad to expect it, but furious nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, he said, he felt very guilty about the fact of his divorce.†   (source)
  • "The king is dead," he said, "but we shall go with you nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Supper was simple, but a feast nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Happy as she was for her friend Jim Williams, she was nonetheless appalled.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, Mulch reached the door without incident.†   (source)
  • None the less, directly after midday all the shops were closed and people hid at home.†   (source)
  • I know this is not a life-or-death situation, but it is hard for me nonetheless.†   (source)
  • The eyes and ears had been sewn back on repeatedly, but it was friendly looking nonetheless.†   (source)
  • But she knew a pang of homesickness, nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, it lightened my burdensome memories and gave me strength to think about things.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, Mary Hanson told him to come back in half an hour.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the fact was I had no idea what to do.†   (source)
  • "I have not been a child in many years, Uncle," Catelyn said, but she told him nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Maybe they weren't quite normal, -but he'd nonetheless found a way to help me become the man I was.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the restlessness persisted.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, it has slowly but surely come about.†   (source)
  • Tastefully done, nestling But vigilant none the less.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the fact became gospel throughout America.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, when he threw his full force into the underside of his crate, nothing budged at all.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the zoo roe-deer quickly returned to their corral.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, she has suffered a concussion, which is basically a bruising of the brain.†   (source)
  • I didn't especially want him to be there with me on the deck, but nonetheless I felt alone.†   (source)
  • But he'd learned some worthwhile lessons nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, Reno Alberto still seemed fifteen feet tall to me.†   (source)
  • The Hassassin seemed to be favoring one arm …. but nonetheless, his grip held firm.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, I am grateful that you would provide me this opportunity tonight.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the impending affair was not going unnoticed in the hotel.†   (source)
  • Now it's just habit, I suppose, but nonetheless it is now a part of who I am.†   (source)
  • A very small mass, but mass nonetheless.†   (source)
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