All 50 Uses of
however
in
The House of Mirth
- There was no one in sight, however, but a char-woman who was scrubbing the stairs.†
Chpt 1.1
- There was, however, one topic she could rely on: one spring that she had only to touch to set his simple machinery in motion.†
Chpt 1.2
- Lily, however, knew all about them: young Mr. Gryce's arrival had fluttered the maternal breasts of New York, and when a girl has no mother to palpitate for her she must needs be on the alert for herself.†
Chpt 1.2
- Once, however, she had had a special edition of the Sarum Rule printed in rubric and presented to every clergyman in the diocese; and the gilt album in which their letters of thanks were pasted formed the chief ornament of her drawing-room table.†
Chpt 1.2
- Generally, however, Mrs. Bart and Lily went to Europe for the summer, and before the steamer was half way over Mr. Bart had dipped below the horizon.†
Chpt 1.3
- Mrs. Peniston, however, did not suffer from her niece's adaptability.†
Chpt 1.3
- Today, however, it renewed the sense of servitude which the previous night's review of her cheque-book had produced.†
Chpt 1.4
- Mrs. Trenor's summons, however, suddenly recalled her state of dependence, and she rose and dressed in a mood of irritability that she was usually too prudent to indulge.†
Chpt 1.4
- She had, however, the fault common to enthusiasts of ignoring any slackness of response on the part of her hearers, and Lily was amused by her unconsciousness of the resistance displayed in every angle of Mr. Gryce's attitude.†
Chpt 1.4
- The precious minutes were flying, however; the big chestnuts pawed the ground and flecked their impatient sides with foam; the coachman seemed to be slowly petrifying on the box, and the groom on the doorstep; and still the lady did not come.†
Chpt 1.5
- Suddenly, however, there was a sound of voices and a rustle of skirts in the doorway, and Mr. Gryce, restoring his watch to his pocket, turned with a nervous start; but it was only to find himself handing Mrs. Wetherall into the carriage.†
Chpt 1.5
- On this occasion, however, Mrs. Dorset took no part in the general conversation.†
Chpt 1.5
- To Mr. Dorset, however, his wife's attitude was a subject of such evident concern that, when he was not scraping the sauce from his fish, or scooping the moist bread-crumbs from the interior of his roll, he sat straining his thin neck for a glimpse of her between the lights.†
Chpt 1.5
- It had occurred to Lily, however, that it might on this occasion have been resorted to by the only member of the party in the least likely to put it to its original use.†
Chpt 1.5
- No one, however, appeared to profit by the opportunity; and after a half hour of fruitless waiting she rose and wandered on.†
Chpt 1.5
- It was for a moment only, however; for when he leaned nearer and drew down her hands with a gesture less passionate than grave, she turned on him a face softened but not disfigured by emotion, and he said to himself, somewhat cruelly, that even her weeping was an art.†
Chpt 1.6
- Today, however, her chirping enthusiasms did not irritate Lily.†
Chpt 1.8
- The latter, however, was not discoverable in the conservatories, and Lily, oppressed by a sudden conviction of failure, was casting about for a way to rid herself of her now superfluous companion, when they came upon Mrs. Van Osburgh, flushed and exhausted, but beaming with the consciousness of duty performed.†
Chpt 1.8
- On this occasion, however, Miss Bart was on her own ground.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Mrs. Peniston, however, was at the moment inaccessible to remonstrance: since early morning she had been shut up with her maid, going over her furs, a process which formed the culminating episode in the drama of household renovation.†
Chpt 1.9
- On the present occasion, however, a variety of reasons had combined to bring her to town; and foremost among them was the fact that she had fewer invitations than usual for the autumn.†
Chpt 1.9
- She felt, however, that it must be ended as promptly as possible.†
Chpt 1.9
- Lily, however, had been deplorably careless in noting the particulars of the entertainment.†
Chpt 1.9
- She made no immediate motion to do so, however, but dropping into a chair looked wearily about her.†
Chpt 1.9
- In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence with Mrs. Peniston, and only the excitement of spending her newly-acquired money lightened the dulness of the days.†
Chpt 1.10
- Now, however, she was disposed to coincide with Mrs. Fisher's view, that it didn't matter who gave the party, as long as things were well done; and doing things well (under competent direction) was Mrs. Wellington Bry's strong point.†
Chpt 1.10
- Perhaps, however, her enjoyment proceeded more than she was aware from the physical stimulus of the excursion, the challenge of crisp cold and hard exercise, the responsive thrill of her body to the influences of the winter woods.†
Chpt 1.10
- When she spoke, however, it was in a tone of perfect lightness.†
Chpt 1.10
- However, there could be no doubt of the expediency of showing herself in his box on the opening night of the opera; and after all, since Judy Trenor had promised to take him up that winter, it was as well to reap the advantage of being first in the field.†
Chpt 1.10
- She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies.†
Chpt 1.11
- To the honour of her sex, however, hatred of Lily prevailed over more personal considerations.†
Chpt 1.11
- It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made.†
Chpt 1.11
- This enmity, however, had apparently expired in a renewal of friendliness between the two women.†
Chpt 1.12
- Lily, however, was not among them, and her absence served to protract the effect she had produced on Selden: it would have broken the spell to see her too soon in the surroundings from which accident had so happily detached her.†
Chpt 1.12
- Tonight, however, he knew that, sooner or later, he should find himself at her side; and though he let the dispersing crowd drift him whither it would, without making an immediate effort to reach her, his procrastination was not due to any lingering resistance, but to the desire to luxuriate a moment in the sense of complete surrender.†
Chpt 1.12
- Fortune willed, however, that the hurried approach of Mrs. Fisher, as whose aide-de-camp Van Alstyne was acting, should break up the group before Selden reached the threshold of the room.†
Chpt 1.12
- She determined, however, to see Mrs. Trenor for a few moments, and ringing for her maid she despatched a telegram to say that she would be with her friend that evening at ten.†
Chpt 1.13
- Trenor, however, appeared at once on the threshold of the drawing-room, welcoming her with unusual volubility while he relieved her of her cloak and drew her into the room.†
Chpt 1.13
- After a while, however, he wearied of his perch and, dropping alone to the pavement, pushed his way to the first corner and turned into the moonlit silence of a side street.†
Chpt 2.1
- But nothing should come out; and happily for his side of the case, the dirty rags, however pieced together, could not, without considerable difficulty, be turned into a homogeneous grievance.†
Chpt 2.3
- Selden knew, however, that he could not long keep such violences in equilibrium; and he promised to meet Dorset, the next morning, at an hotel in Monte Carlo.†
Chpt 2.3
- Temporarily, no doubt, however exerted, it worked for the general safety: the question was how long it would last, and by what kind of reaction it was likely to be followed.†
Chpt 2.3
- Whatever her share in the situation—and he had always honestly tried to resist judging her by her surroundings—however free she might be from any personal connection with it, she would be better out of the way of a possible crash; and since she had appealed to him for help, it was clearly his business to tell her so.†
Chpt 2.3
- The completeness of the analogy was, however, disturbed as she reached the sidewalk by the rapid approach of a hansom which pulled up at sight of her.†
Chpt 2.5
- As Miss Bart reached the avenue, however, she saw a smart phaeton with a high-stepping pair disappear behind the shrubbery in the direction of the gate; and on the doorstep stood Mrs. Gormer, with a glow of retrospective pleasure on her open countenance.†
Chpt 2.6
- The situation, however, was not agreeable enough to lull her to complete unconsciousness of its insecurity.†
Chpt 2.6
- Once confronted with it, however, she went the full length of its consequences; and these had never been more clearly present to her than when, the next afternoon, she set out for a walk with Rosedale.†
Chpt 2.7
- She could not, however, deny herself the solace of taking anxious counsel with Lawrence Selden, with whom, since his return from Europe, she had renewed her old relation of cousinly confidence.†
Chpt 2.8
- It was, however, only figuratively that the illumination of Mrs. Hatch's world could be described as dim: in actual fact, Lily found her seated in a blaze of electric light, impartially projected from various ornamental excrescences on a vast concavity of pink damask and gilding, from which she rose like Venus from her shell.†
Chpt 2.9
- However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(however as in: However, complications may...) though (or another expression that connects contrasting ideas)
(Based on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 exists, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrastand but.)