All 18 Uses of
although
in
I Am the Cheese
- The doctor was a complete stranger and although he seemed sympathetic and friendly, he wasn't entirely comfortable with him.†
Chpt 2although = even though; or but (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- He could be a doctor, he had a kindly face although sometimes his eyes were strange.†
Chpt 6
- Adam had never heard his father swear like that before, although he said "hell" and "damn" once in a while.†
Chpt 8
- I ask, although I know it is futile.†
Chpt 9
- His marks often suffered in school because, although he did well in written tests and compositions, he was terrible in oral recitations, speeches, anything that required the spotlight of attention to be focused on him.†
Chpt 10
- Although Amy was the most important person in his life, he couldn't bring himself to talk to her about the doubts that tormented him.†
Chpt 13
- Although the woman's voice didn't disclose any evidence of great age, she spoke to Adam's mother as if she were much older and his mother a child.†
Chpt 13
- Boy, I was coming along slow, the wife doesn't like to go fast since she had her stroke, and I saw one of the wheels of your bike sticking up out of that ditch and we stopped and I came over to look, although the wife says people should mind their own business.†
Chpt 21
- I heard the phone ring but I didn't bother answering it although there was an extension in the room.†
Chpt 22 *
- That was the night Mr. Grey entered their lives ....T: More specifics now, although you seem to dislike the word.†
Chpt 23
- Squinting, I see that he is huge, a mountainous man, with a white shirt open at the chest although it's cold in the New England dusk.†
Chpt 24
- It's the only risk Grey ever allowed, although it was a minimal risk," he said.†
Chpt 25
- Although she seldom smiled and sadness clung to her most of the time, she was capable of anger.†
Chpt 26
- Later they parted, Adam to go home for lunch, although his stomach bulged with the milkshakes, and Amy to meet her father at the newspaper.†
Chpt 28
- * TAPE CHANGE: START: TAPE OZKO15 2218 date deleted T-A A: It was like an adventure in the beginning, the three of us going off in the car......Although the day was dark and overcast, one of those muted October days when autumn's brilliant colors are suddenly subdued, Adam felt exhilaration as his father drove the car north, out of Monument into Fairfield and across the New Hampshire line into Carver.†
Chpt 30
- The next morning, they planned to head far to the north, to Burlington and St. Albans and even farther to the Canadian border although his father said they couldn't cross the border, of course.†
Chpt 30
- We reach the top of the stairs and begin walking toward my room and although I do not like it here and I feel somehow that I do not belong here, there is a feeling of belonging, of being among familiar things.†
Chpt 31
- The rat takes the cheese, The rat takes the cheese, Heigh-ho, the merry-o, The rat takes the cheese ....I rock Pokey in my arms and I'm wearing my father's jacket and I have on his old cap and now I'm not so sad anymore although I know he's dead and my mother's dead, too.†
Chpt 31
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.)