All 50 Uses of
nevertheless
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- "Nevertheless, the Place Maubert is sufficiently large!" interposed one of the clerks established on the window-sill.†
Chpt 1.1.1 *nevertheless = in spite of that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Nevertheless, as be harangued them, the satisfaction and admiration unanimously excited by his costume were dissipated by his words; and when he reached that untoward conclusion: "As soon as his illustrious eminence, the cardinal, arrives, we will begin," his voice was drowned in a thunder of hooting.†
Chpt 1.1.2
- Nevertheless, in that throng, upon which the four allegories vied with each other in pouring out floods of metaphors, there was no ear more attentive, no heart that palpitated more, not an eye was more haggard, no neck more outstretched, than the eye, the ear, the neck, and the heart of the author, of the poet, of that brave Pierre Gringoire, who had not been able to resist, a moment before, the joy of telling his name to two pretty girls.†
Chpt 1.1.2
- At that moment, he felt some one pluck at the hem of his surtout; he turned round, and not without ill-humor, and found considerable difficulty in smiling; but he was obliged to do so, nevertheless.†
Chpt 1.1.2
- Nevertheless, tranquillity was gradually restored, the scholar held his peace, the mendicant counted over some coins in his hat, and the piece resumed the upper hand.†
Chpt 1.1.2
- Nevertheless, in order to play the part of critic also, the poet might have developed this beautiful idea in something less than two hundred lines.†
Chpt 1.1.2
- Nevertheless, he was a fine man; he led a joyous cardinal's life, liked to enliven himself with the royal vintage of Challuau, did not hate Richarde la Garmoise and Thomasse la Saillarde, bestowed alms on pretty girls rather than on old women,—and for all these reasons was very agreeable to the populace of Paris.†
Chpt 1.1.3
- It was a subtle, intelligent, crafty-looking face, a sort of combined monkey and diplomat phiz, before whom the cardinal made three steps and a profound bow, and whose name, nevertheless, was only, "Guillaume Rym, counsellor and pensioner of the City of Ghent."†
Chpt 1.1.3
- Nevertheless, he was appreciated by the "miner" of Europe; he plotted familiarly with Louis XI.†
Chpt 1.1.3
- Nevertheless, all was over for the poor cardinal, and he was obliged to quaff to the dregs the bitter cup of being in such bad company.†
Chpt 1.1.4
- Nevertheless, when our poet beheld quiet reestablished to some extent, he devised a stratagem which might have redeemed all.†
Chpt 1.1.4
- Nevertheless, the grand hall was anything but Olympus, and Gringoire's poor Jupiter knew it better than any one else.†
Chpt 1.1.5
- Nevertheless, he began to grow impatient with Coppenole's behavior, and suddenly turned towards him with so formidable a gnashing of teeth, that the Flemish giant recoiled, like a bull-dog before a cat.†
Chpt 1.1.5
- Nevertheless, I am greatly in need of a chimney corner; my shoes drink in the water, and all those cursed mills wept upon me!†
Chpt 1.2.3
- This man, whose costume was concealed by the crowd which surrounded him, did not appear to be more than five and thirty years of age; nevertheless, he was bald; he had merely a few tufts of thin, gray hair on his temples; his broad, high forehead had begun to be furrowed with wrinkles, but his deep-set eyes sparkled with extraordinary youthfulness, an ardent life, a profound passion.†
Chpt 1.2.3
- Nevertheless, her song breathed joy, most of all, and she seemed to sing like a bird, from serenity and heedlessness.†
Chpt 1.2.3
- And, nevertheless, it is certain that Quasimodo could have crushed the priest with his thumb.†
Chpt 1.2.3
- But Gringoire had lost the thread of his ideas, nevertheless.†
Chpt 1.2.4
- Nevertheless, a twist of tow soaked in oil, which burned in a cage at the feet of the Holy Virgin at the street corner, permitted Gringoire to make out the gypsy struggling in the arms of two men, who were endeavoring to stifle her cries.†
Chpt 1.2.4
- Nevertheless, he made one more effort: "I don't see why poets are not classed with vagabonds," said he.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- Nevertheless, three emerged from the throng and came to smell of him.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- Nevertheless, you are not ignorant of the fact that Noel Lescrivain was condemned, a week ago, to pay ten Parisian sous, for having carried a cutlass.†
Chpt 1.2.7
- Nevertheless, Gringoire continued,— "What must one be then, in order to please you?"†
Chpt 1.2.7
- Nevertheless, timid and inexperienced at the start, it sweeps out, grows larger, restrains itself, and dares no longer dart upwards in spires and lancet windows, as it did later on, in so many marvellous cathedrals.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- Nevertheless, at first sight, one recognized the fact that these three fragments formed but one body.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Nevertheless, the remarkably pointed and lofty roof of the modern palace, bristling with carved eaves, covered with sheets of lead, where coiled a thousand fantastic arabesques of sparkling incrustations of gilded bronze, that roof, so curiously damascened, darted upwards gracefully from the midst of the brown ruins of the ancient edifice; whose huge and ancient towers, rounded by age like casks, sinking together with old age, and rending themselves from top to bottom, resembled great bellies unbuttoned.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Nevertheless, Voltaire said of this city, that "before Louis XIV.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Nevertheless, this sea of harmony is not a chaos; great and profound as it is, it has not lost its transparency; you behold the windings of each group of notes which escapes from the belfries.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Nevertheless, there was one human creature whom Quasimodo excepted from his malice and from his hatred for others, and whom he loved even more, perhaps, than his cathedral: this was Claude Frollo.†
Chpt 1.4.4
- Nevertheless, he had a feeling that he was in the presence of a strong and earnest character.†
Chpt 1.5.1
- Nevertheless, if the desire possesses you of putting yourself under discipline at your age, and of deciphering the formidable alphabet of the sages, come to me; 'tis well, I will make the effort.†
Chpt 1.5.1
- Nevertheless, art marches on with giant strides.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- And by separating there three series into their component parts, we shall find in the three eldest sisters, Hindoo architecture, Egyptian architecture, Romanesque architecture, the same symbol; that is to say, theocracy, caste, unity, dogma, myth, God: and for the three younger sisters, Phoenician architecture, Greek architecture, Gothic architecture, whatever, nevertheless, may be the diversity of form inherent in their nature, the same signification also; that is to say, liberty, the people, man.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- Nevertheless, from the moment when architecture is no longer anything but an art like any other; as soon as it is no longer the total art, the sovereign art, the tyrant art,—it has no longer the power to retain the other arts.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- Nevertheless, when the sun of the Middle Ages is completely set, when the Gothic genius is forever extinct upon the horizon, architecture grows dim, loses its color, becomes more and more effaced.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- Nevertheless, when one tries to collect in one's mind a comprehensive image of the total products of printing down to our own days, does not that total appear to us like an immense construction, resting upon the entire world, at which humanity toils without relaxation, and whose monstrous crest is lost in the profound mists of the future?†
Chpt 1.5.2
- Nevertheless, the prodigious edifice still remains incomplete.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- Nevertheless, with so many reasons for taking life patiently and joyously, Messire Robert d'Estouteville woke up on the morning of the seventh of January, 1482, in a very surly and peevish mood.†
Chpt 1.6.1
- In the next place, he was so hard of hearing That he did not catch a single word of what the clerk said to him; nevertheless, he wished to have the appearance of hearing, and replied, "Ah!†
Chpt 1.6.1
- Nevertheless, ugly rumors were in circulation in regard to them; about children stolen, purses cut, and human flesh devoured.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Nevertheless, Gervaise addressed her, "And did they ever learn what became of la Chantefleurie?"†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Nevertheless, there were people of the Cabaret les Vantes, who said that they had seen her pass along the road to Paris, walking on the pebbles with her bare feet.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Nevertheless, at intervals, her blue lips half opened to admit a breath, and trembled, but as dead and as mechanical as the leaves which the wind sweeps aside.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Nevertheless, from her dull eyes there escaped a look, an ineffable look, a profound, lugubrious, imperturbable look, incessantly fixed upon a corner of the cell which could not be seen from without; a gaze which seemed to fix all the sombre thoughts of that soul in distress upon some mysterious object.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Nevertheless, this shock had, so to speak, awakened the recluse.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Nevertheless, that cloud cleared away for a moment, at the passage of a mule which traversed the crowd, bearing a priest.†
Chpt 1.6.4
- Nevertheless, the fair Fleur-de-Lys's was a charming and noble service, and such it had formerly appeared to him; but the captain had gradually become blase'; the prospect of a speedy marriage cooled him more every day.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- He had, nevertheless, received from his family some education and some politeness of manner; but he had been thrown on the world too young, he had been in garrison at too early an age, and every day the polish of a gentleman became more and more effaced by the rough friction of his gendarme's cross-belt.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- Nevertheless, as you wish it, young ladies, I will make the trial.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- Nevertheless, as they were all very nearly equal in beauty, they contended with equal arms, and each could hope for the victory.†
Chpt 2.7.1
Definition:
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.)