All 50 Uses of
however
in
Bleak House
- She checked me, however, as I was about to depart from her—so frozen as I was!
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- However, when we began to jolt upon a stone pavement, and particularly when every other conveyance seemed to be running into us, and we seemed to be running into every other conveyance, I began to believe that we really were approaching the end of our journey.
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- However, as she at once proceeded with her dictation, and as I interrupted nothing by doing it, I ventured quietly to stop poor Peepy as he was going out and to take him up to nurse.
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- We soon laughed, however, and were busily unpacking when Miss Jellyby came back to say that she was sorry there was no hot water, but they couldn't find the kettle, and the boiler was out of order.
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- I was not so attentive an auditor as I might have wished to be, however, for Peepy and the other children came flocking about Ada and me in a corner of the drawing-room to ask for another story; so we sat down among them and told them in whispers "Puss in Boots" and I don't know what else until Mrs. Jellyby, accidentally remembering them, sent them to bed.
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- However, I am happy to say he remained where he was, and asked me what I thought of Mrs. Jellyby.
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- He told us, however, that as he had always been a mere child in point of weights and measures and had never known anything about them (except that they disgusted him), he had never been able to prescribe with the requisite accuracy of detail.
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- However, Rick, Esther, and you too, Ada, for I don't know that even your little purse is safe from his inexperience—I must have a promise all round that nothing of this sort shall ever be done any more.
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- The grandson, however, being smitten by a sudden wish to see the house himself, proposes to join the party.
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- Away I ran, however, and made tea, as I had already been installed into the responsibility of the tea-pot; and then, as they were all rather late and nobody was down yet, I thought I would take a peep at the garden and get some knowledge of that too.
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- "However," said Mr. Jarndyce, "to return to our gossip."
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- I must except, however, the little recruit into the Infant Bonds of Joy, who was stolidly and evenly miserable.
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- The afternoon wore away, however, and he did not appear.
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- "I should be pained, Mr. Guppy," said I, rising and putting my hand upon the bell-rope, "to do you or any one who was sincere the injustice of slighting any honest feeling, however disagreeably expressed.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- In case you should think better at any time, however distant—THAT'S no consequence, for my feelings can never alter—of anything I have said, particularly what might I not do, Mr. William Guppy, eighty-seven, Penton Place, or if removed, or dead (of blighted hopes or anything of that sort), care of Mrs. Guppy, three hundred and two, Old Street Road, will be sufficient.
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)however = regardless of how
- So now, in Cook's Court, Cursitor Street, Mr. Snagsby and the niece are one; and the niece still cherishes her figure, which, however tastes may differ, is unquestionably so far precious that there is mighty little of it.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- It is, however, the possession, and the only possession except fifty shillings per annum and a very small box indifferently filled with clothing, of a lean young woman from a workhouse (by some supposed to have been christened Augusta) who, although she was farmed or contracted for during her growing time by an amiable benefactor of his species resident at Tooting, and cannot fail to have been developed under the most favourable circumstances, "has fits," which the parish can't account…
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- Never however see the plaintive take a pick-axe or any other wepping far from it.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- What question this enthusiastic fowl supposes he settles when he strains himself to such an extent, or why he should thus crow (so men crow on various triumphant public occasions, however) about what cannot be of any moment to him, is his affair.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- I should amend that phrase, however, by saying that he had unquestionably died of his own act, though whether by his own deliberate intention or by mischance can never certainly be known.
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- She was, however, unaccountably improved in her appearance and looked very pretty.
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- However, I am not going to bear it, I am determined.
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- Their clothing was not so warm, however, but that their noses looked red and pinched and their small figures shrunken as the boy walked up and down nursing and hushing the child with its head on his shoulder.
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- Submitting, however, with a good grace to the caution that we had shown to be so necessary, he contented himself with sitting down among us in his lightest spirits and talking as if his one unvarying purpose in life from childhood had been that one which now held possession of him.
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- However, he told us between-whiles that he was doing it to such an extent that he wondered his hair didn't turn grey.
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- However, he wouldn't be, and there was an end of it.
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- However, he can't marry just yet, even if his Rosebud were willing; so he is fain to make the best of it.
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- I am sorry that any local disputes of Sir Leicester's—they are not of his seeking, however, I believe—should render it a matter of some absurd difficulty to show you any attention here.
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- Mr. Chadband, however, having concluded for the present, sits down at Mr. Snagsby's table and lays about him prodigiously.
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- However, the compact being virtually made, Mr. Guppy proposes to dispatch the trusty Smallweed to ascertain if Mr. Krook is at home, as in that case they may complete the negotiation without delay.
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff.
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- All this, however, is so common in the Smallweed family circle that it produces no impression.
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- "However," Mr. George resumes, "the less said about it, the better now."
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- The alarming presence, however, gradually subsides into its chair and falls to smoking in long puffs, consoling itself with the philosophical reflection, "The name of your friend in the city begins with a D, comrade, and you're about right respecting the bond."
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- As they walk along, Mr. Snagsby observes, as a novelty, that however quick their pace may be, his companion still seems in some undefinable manner to lurk and lounge; also, that whenever he is going to turn to the right or left, he pretends to have a fixed purpose in his mind of going straight ahead, and wheels off, sharply, at the very last moment.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- Mr. Snagsby, however, giving him the consolatory assurance, "It's only a job you will be paid for, Jo," he recovers; and on being taken outside by Mr. Bucket for a little private confabulation, tells his tale satisfactorily, though out of breath.
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- But, however, here's five shillings for you.
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- We learnt, however, as the time went on, that a new application was made to the Lord Chancellor on Richard's behalf as an infant and a ward, and I don't know what, and that there was a quantity of talking, and that the Lord Chancellor described him in open court as a vexatious and capricious infant, and that the matter was adjourned and readjourned, and referred, and reported on, and petitioned about until Richard began to doubt (as he told us) whether, if he entered the army at all,…
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- His shorter trust, however, terminating at the cab, he deposits him there; and the fair Judy takes her place beside him, and the chair embellishes the roof, and Mr. George takes the vacant place upon the box.
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- It lies in the smallest compass, however.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- Once past this difficulty, however, he exhorts his dear friend in the tenderest manner not to be rash, but to do what so eminent a gentleman requires, and to do it with a good grace, confident that it must be unobjectionable as well as profitable.
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- "A family home," he ruminates as he marches along, "however small it is, makes a man like me look lonely."
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2) *however = regardless of how
- Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- Beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and powerful in her little world (for the world of fashion does not stretch ALL the way from pole to pole), her influence in Sir Leicester's house, however haughty and indifferent her manner, is greatly to improve it and refine it.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- Such the guests in the long drawing-room at Chesney Wold this dismal night when the step on the Ghost's Walk (inaudible here, however) might be the step of a deceased cousin shut out in the cold.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- Addressing her composed face, whose intelligence, however, is too quick and active to be concealed by any studied impassiveness, however habitual, to the strong Saxon face of the visitor, a picture of resolution and perseverance, my Lady listens with attention, occasionally slightly bending her head.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- Addressing her composed face, whose intelligence, however, is too quick and active to be concealed by any studied impassiveness, however habitual, to the strong Saxon face of the visitor, a picture of resolution and perseverance, my Lady listens with attention, occasionally slightly bending her head.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- However, the chances are that having ascertained the young woman to be of unblemished character, he will say to his son, 'I must be quite sure you are in earnest here.
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- And thus, with a clatter of maids and valets—for it is one appurtenance of their cousinship that however difficult they may find it to keep themselves, they MUST keep maids and valets—the cousins disperse to the four winds of heaven; and the one wintry wind that blows to-day shakes a shower from the trees near the deserted house, as if all the cousins had been changed into leaves.
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)however = regardless of how
- However, as he is now gone so far away and for an indefinite time, and as he will have good opportunities and introductions, we may consider this past and gone.
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
Definitions:
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(1) (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.)
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(2) (however as in: However much she tried...) to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)