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Love in the Time of Cholera
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He, however, was not considered a living being but rather a mineral good luck charm whose location one could never be certain of.†
Chpt 1

however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
For several years an Amazonian monkey, chained by his waist to the mango tree in the patio, elicited a certain compassion because he had the sorrowful face of Archbishop Obdulio y Rey, the same candid eyes, the same eloquent hands; that, however, was not the reason Fermina got rid of him, but because he had the bad habit of pleasuring himself in honor of the ladies.†
Chpt 1
What he had seen that day, however, was the physical presence of something that until that moment had been only an imagined certainty.†
Chpt 1
Fermina Daza, however, was still safe from even simple curiosity about love, and the only feeling that Florentino Ariza inspired in her was a certain pity, because it seemed to her that he was sick.†
Chpt 2
Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. Fermina Daza, however, was so confused that she asked for some time to think it over.†
Chpt 2
Her father, however, searched her room, until then an inviolate sanctuary, and in the false bottom of her trunk he found the packets of three years' worth of letters hidden away with as much love as had inspired their writing.†
Chpt 2
He said, however, that the real secret of his fortune was that none of his mules worked as hard and with so much determination as he did himself, even during the bitterest days of the wars when the villages awoke in ashes and the fields in ruins.†
Chpt 2
Fermina Sanchez, however, settled on her desire with the blind determination of love when it is opposed, and she married him despite her family, with so much speed and so much secrecy that it seemed as if she had done so not for love but to cover over with a sacramental cloak some premature mistake.†
Chpt 2
When she obtained it, however, she was not satisfied with the simple affirmative answer but asked for proof that in fact it was Florentino Ariza operating the telegraph key at the other end of the line.†
Chpt 2
None of these dreams was in vain, however.†
Chpt 2

however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
"How noble this city must be," he would say, "for we have spent four hundred years trying to finish it off and we still have not succeeded," They almost had, however.†
Chpt 3
By that time, however, Dr. Urbino was not concerned with proclaiming victory, nor was he moved to persevere in his social mission, for at that moment one of his wings was broken, he was distracted and in disarray and ready to forget everything else in life, because he had been struck by the lightning of his love for Fermina Daza.†
Chpt 3

however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
The strangest thing, however, had not yet occurred.†
Chpt 3
After a time, however, she discovered when she awoke from an exhausting dream that the doll was growing: the original exquisite dress she had arrived in was up above her thighs, and her shoes had burst from the pressure of her feet.†
Chpt 3
One night, however, Fermina heard him come in.†
Chpt 3
After three days of favorable water, however, it became more difficult to navigate between inopportune sandbanks and deceptive rapids.†
Chpt 3
She did not ignore him, however, even when he was asleep, but would rock the cage, singing love songs under her breath while her thoughts flew high above the miseries of the journey.†
Chpt 3
Once his revenge was consummated, however, he repented of his own wickedness, and then he saw Fermina Daza rising from the ground, her spirit intact, distant but alive, because it was not possible for him to imagine the world without her.†
Chpt 3
The next day, however, when they sighted the cliffs of Caracoli, his fever had disappeared and his spirits were elated, because in the marasmus of the sedatives he had resolved once and for all that he did not give a damn about the brilliant future of the telegraph and that he would take this very same boat back to his old Street of Windows.†
Chpt 3
He had two advantages working in his favor, however.†
Chpt 3

however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
He took them to the jetties where half the city also went after nightfall, he took them wherever he could, and sometimes even where he could not, and not infrequently he had to hurry into a dark entryway and do what he could, however he could do it, behind the gate.
Chpt 4 *

however = in whatever way
There was no reason to complain, however, if the Europeans themselves were once again setting the bad example of a barbaric war when we had begun to live in peace after nine civil wars in half a century, which, if the truth were told, were all one war: always the same war.†
Chpt 4

however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
Two or three sentences more, however, were enough for him to understand that Dr. Juvenal Urbino, in the midst of so many absorbing commitments, still had more than enough time to adore his wife almost as much as he did, and that truth stunned him.†
Chpt 4
That, however, was not the most staggering event of the afternoon.†
Chpt 4
Sara Noriega, however, achieved the miracle of curing him for a time.†
Chpt 4
The break with Sara Noriega, however, revived his dormant grief, and once again he felt as he did on those afternoons of endless reading in the little park, but this time it was exacerbated by his urgent need for Dr. Juvenal Urbino to die.†
Chpt 4
The confusion caused by her rejection of Florentino Ariza, however, had not been resolved with comforting words.†
Chpt 4
The most fearful doubts began, however, when she returned from her honeymoon.†
Chpt 4
That, however, had been the easy part for Fermina Daza.†
Chpt 4
If that was true, however, the natural thing would have been for her to return the pigeon with a reply.†
Chpt 4 *
Now, however, it was difficult for him to escape notice.†
Chpt 5
The peaceful suburb with its beautiful tradition of love was, however, not the most propitious for unrequited love when it became a luxury neighborhood.†
Chpt 5
Fermina Daza, in fact, had sailed at midnight in the greatest secrecy and with her face covered by a black mantilla, not on a Cunard liner bound for Panama, however, but on the regular boat to San Juan de la Cienaga, the city where she had been born and had lived until her adolescence, and for which she felt a growing homesickness that became more and more difficult to bear as the years went by.†
Chpt 5
Such deceptions, however, were to little avail.†
Chpt 5
After a certain age, however, adults either had the symptoms without the diseases or, what was worse, serious diseases with the symptoms of minor ones.†
Chpt 5
Another visitor, however, who seemed very well informed, said that the bed was a false relic, for the truth was that the father of his country had been left to die on the floor.†
Chpt 5
A few years later, however, the husbands fell without warning down the precipice of a humiliating aging in body and soul, and then it was their wives who recovered and had to lead them by the arm as if they were blind men on charity, whispering in their ear, in order not to wound their masculine pride, that they should be careful, that there were three steps, not two, that there was a puddle in the middle of the street, that the shape lying across the sidewalk was a dead beggar, and with great difficulty helped them to cross the street as if it were the only ford across the last of life's rivers.†
Chpt 5
His uncle, however, believed that the failure of Elbers was due not to privileges but to the unrealistic commitments he had contracted for, which had almost been tantamount to his assuming responsibility for the geography of the nation: he had taken charge of maintaining the navigability of the river, the port installations, the access routes on land, the means of transportation.†
Chpt 5
It was true, however, that President Rafael Reyes, after only a hurried half hour between appointments in the city, granted her a lifetime pension for distinguished service to the Ministry of Finance, where she had never worked a day of her life.†
Chpt 5
For the girl, however, it was a Sunday paradise.†
Chpt 5
On Monday, however, when he returned to his house on the Street of Windows, he discovered a letter floating in a puddle inside the entrance, and on the wet envelope he recognized at once the imperious handwriting that so many changes in life had not changed, and he even thought he could detect the nocturnal perfume of withered gardenias, because after the initial shock, his heart told him everything: it was the letter he had been waiting for, without a moment's respite, for over half a century.†
Chpt 5
In a very short while, however, she realized that he was behaving with inexplicable evasiveness, as if it was true, as if he were not sixty years older than she, but sixty years younger.†
Chpt 6
Soon afterward, however, the occasion arose on its own.†
Chpt 6
Two days later, however, he received a letter from Fermina Daza in which she begged him not to call again.†
Chpt 6
It was soon obvious, however, that Fermina Daza was not immune to the hazards of her class.†
Chpt 6
In the next moment, however, they were.†
Chpt 6
When it was over, however, she felt empty.†
Chpt 6
This time, however, he listened to him.†
Chpt 6
She was, however, lucid enough to realize that this was the result not of the anisette but of her imminent return.†
Chpt 6
However, when he showed him the chair so that he could sit down, he did not find Lorenzo Daza as harsh as he appeared to be, and his courage revived when he invited him to have a glass of anisette.†
Chpt 2

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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 contrast and but.
(2) (however as in: However much she tried...)
to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
(3) (however as in: However you do it, get it done!)
in whatever way
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely (and arguably incorrectly), however can be used to intensify the word how, as when one says "However did you find her?" Grammarians would suggest using two words for that usage: "How ever did you find her?"

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Love in the Time of Cholera
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