All 14 Uses of
although
in
Middlemarch
- Although Sir James was a sportsman, he had some other feelings towards women than towards grouse and foxes, and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase.†
Chpt 1although = even though; or but (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Few young men have less against them, although he couldn't take his degree—I'm sure I can't understand why, for he seems to me most clever.†
Chpt 1
- When Caleb Garth arrived at Stone Court soon after dusk, Mary was not surprised, although he seldom had leisure for paying her a visit, and was not at all fond of having to talk with Mr. Featherstone.†
Chpt 3
- Caleb, looking on over his spectacles, with the angles of his eyebrows falling, had an expression of mingled delight and sorrow as he returned to the opening of his letter; and even Mrs. Garth, her lips curling with a calm contentment, allowed that inappropriate language to pass without correction, although Ben immediately took it up, and sang, "She's an old brick, old brick, old brick!" to a cantering measure, which he beat out with his fist on Mary's arm.†
Chpt 4
- Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.†
Chpt 5
- Although I am not in any way bound to you, I am willing to supply you with a regular annuity—in quarterly payments—so long as you fulfil a promise to remain at a distance from this neighborhood.†
Chpt 5
- She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means, although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful.†
Chpt 6
- I only meant that they avoid expenses, although Wrench has a capital practice.†
Chpt 7
- Although she was not subject to much fear, she felt it safer not to betray that she had written to Sir Godwin.†
Chpt 7 *
- Although her duplicity in the affair of the house had exceeded what he knew, and had really hindered the Plymdales from knowing of it, she had no consciousness that her action could rightly be called false.†
Chpt 7
- He wanted to consult Lydgate without delay on that particular morning, although he had nothing to tell beyond what he had told before.†
Chpt 7
- He did carry them out faithfully, although Raffles was incessantly asking for brandy, and declaring that he was sinking away—that the earth was sinking away from under him.†
Chpt 7
- For that scene at the meeting, which he had just witnessed, although it had told him no particulars, had been enough to make his own situation thoroughly clear to him.†
Chpt 8
- Nay, there are persons in Middlemarch to whom I could go; although they don't know much of me, they would believe me.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
even though; or but
(Used to connect contrasting ideas. At the start of a sentence, other synonyms could include words and phrases such as however, yet, all the same, on the other hand, still, even so, and nonetheless.)
(Used to connect contrasting ideas. At the start of a sentence, other synonyms could include words and phrases such as however, yet, all the same, on the other hand, still, even so, and nonetheless.)