All 13 Uses of
nevertheless
in
Gone with the Wind
- Filled with her own anxieties, she nevertheless watched him with affectionate pride, for Gerald was an excellent horseman.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Gerald was disappointed, for he had wanted a son, but he nevertheless was pleased enough over his small black-haired daughter to serve rum to every slave at Tara and to get roaringly, happily drunk himself.†
Chpt 1.3
- If she was only fifteen years old, she was nevertheless ready for the responsibilities of the mistress of a plantation.†
Chpt 1.3
- Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.†
Chpt 1.5
- The ladies always felt a little odd when they besieged him with questions about styles, but they did it nevertheless.†
Chpt 2.12
- Scarlett breathed more easily knowing that experienced hands were near, but she nevertheless yearned to have the ordeal over and done with.†
Chpt 3.19
- All three wore home-dyed mourning, all were worn, sad, worried, all bitter with a bitterness that did not sulk or complain but, nevertheless, peered out from behind their smiles and their words of welcome.†
Chpt 3.26
- Common sense told them that unless Ashley developed wings, it would be weeks or even months before he could travel from Illinois to Georgia, but hearts nevertheless beat wildly whenever a soldier turned into the avenue at Tara.†
Chpt 3.30
- Scarlett saw in a glance that the dress was bright in color to the point of vulgarity but nevertheless her eyes went over the outfit hungrily.†
Chpt 4.32
- Nevertheless I will give it.†
Chpt 4.34
- With an air of dignified reserve she was able to keep her victims at their proper distance, but there was nevertheless a graciousness in her manner which left a certain warmth in the Yankee officers' memories of Mrs. Kennedy.†
Chpt 4.38
- Nevertheless she ate a large one, and drank a quantity of champagne.†
Chpt 5.48
- …blacks they were supposed to protect; the Deals who had sold "cardboard" shoes to the Confederate government until it became necessary for them to spend the last year of the war in Europe; the Hundons who had police records in many cities but nevertheless were often successful bidders on state contracts; the Carahans who had gotten their start in a gambling house and now were gambling for bigger stakes in the building of nonexistent railroads with the state's money; the Flahertys who…†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
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(nevertheless) in spite of that (Used to connect contrasting ideas. Other synonyms could include words and phrases such as nonetheless, all the same, still, and however.)