All 4 Uses of
albeit
in
The War of the Worlds
- A Martian, therefore, would weigh three times more than on Mars, albeit his muscular strength would be the same.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- Overhead the clouds were driving fast, albeit not a breath stirred the shrubs about us.†
Chpt 1.10
- There were one or two cartloads of refugees passing along Oxford Street, and several in the Marylebone Road, but so slowly was the news spreading that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of their usual Sunday-night promenaders, albeit they talked in groups, and along the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples "walking out" together under the scattered gas lamps as ever there had been.†
Chpt 1.14
- There was food aboard, albeit at exorbitant prices, and the three of them contrived to eat a meal on one of the seats forward.†
Chpt 1.17
Definition:
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(albeit) although (used to introduce a phrase that reduces or modifies the effect of what preceded it)