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The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
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- It struck her second visitor that Miss Archer had, in operatic conditions, a radiance, even a slight exaltation; as she was, however, at all times a keenly-glancing, quickly-moving, completely animated young woman, he may have been mistaken on this point.†
Chpt 28however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- He lingered still, however.†
Chpt 28however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
- At last, however, her attention lapsed, drawn off by a deeper tide of life.†
Chpt 28however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- If he was not personally loud, however, he was deep, and during these closing days of the Roman May he knew a complacency that matched with slow irregular walks under the pines of the Villa Borghese, among the small sweet meadow-flowers and the mossy marbles.†
Chpt 29
- Her plan, however, seemed for a moment likely to modify itself in deference to an idea of Madame Merle's.†
Chpt 30
- She rose quickly from the music-stool; even then, however, she lingered a moment, still holding her small companion, drawing the child's sweet slimness closer and looking down at her almost in envy.†
Chpt 30
- It is not, however, during this interval that we are closely concerned with her; our attention is engaged again on a certain day in the late spring-time, shortly after her return to Palazzo Crescentini and a year from the date of the incidents just narrated.†
Chpt 31
- These pictures would have been both landscapes and figure-pieces; the latter, however, would have been the more numerous.†
Chpt 31
- Isabel had developed less, however, than Lily had thought likely—development, to Lily's understanding, being somehow mysteriously connected with morning-calls and evening-parties.†
Chpt 31
- Our young lady's courage, however, might have been taken as reaching its height after her relations had gone home.†
Chpt 31
- The situation, however, had no hardships, and people who met this reserved though striking pair on their travels would not have been able to tell you which was patroness and which client.†
Chpt 31
- However that might be, the girl had in these days a thousand uses for her sense of the romantic, which was more active than it had ever been.†
Chpt 31 *however = in whatever way
- Ralph, however, was expected in Florence from day to day, and Isabel, who had not seen him for upwards of a year, was prepared to give him the most affectionate welcome.†
Chpt 31however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- For the rest, however, all clearness reigned in her; she had put away her mourning and she walked in no small shimmering splendour.†
Chpt 32
- Caspar, however, remained sternly grave.†
Chpt 32
- The satisfaction poor Caspar exhibited was, however, small; he sat very upright, gazing at her.
Chpt 32however = though (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- These things, however, if implied, had not been expressed; and now our young lady, strangely enough, began to resent her visitor's remarkable self-control.†
Chpt 32however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- If she were not in the wrong, however, why should she desire to defend herself?†
Chpt 32
- Her fit of weeping, however, was soon smothered, and the signs of it had vanished when, an hour later, she broke the news to her aunt.†
Chpt 33
- "She said that to please you," the girl answered; conscious, however, of the inadequacy of the explanation.†
Chpt 33
- After an interval of silence, however, she asked her companion from whom she had received a visit an hour before.†
Chpt 33
- Now, however, it took no great sensibility to feel that poor Ralph's tenure of life was less elastic than it should be.†
Chpt 33
- She had other employment, however, and Ralph was welcome to relieve her of the care.†
Chpt 33
- If you had been on your guard, however," Isabel asked, "what would you have done?"†
Chpt 34
- This disposition, however, made him an admirable lover; it gave him a constant view of the smitten and dedicated state.†
Chpt 35
- It seems to me, however, that I've sufficiently proved the limits of my itch for it: I never in my life tried to earn a penny, and I ought to be less subject to suspicion than most of the people one sees grubbing and grabbing.†
Chpt 35
- They made a good many plans, but they left themselves also a good deal of latitude; it was a matter of course, however, that they should live for the present in Italy.†
Chpt 35
- In the summer of 1876, however, an incident befell him which changed the current not only of his thoughts, but of his customary sequences.†
Chpt 36
- Fortune, however, favours the brave; and this adventurer, who took three grains of quinine a day, had at the end of a month no cause to deplore his temerity.†
Chpt 36
- I must tell you, however, that I've not the marrying of Pansy Osmond.†
Chpt 36
- Mr. Osmond, however, will probably incline to believe he can do better.†
Chpt 36
- There was one point, however, to which he always did justice when once he found himself in Mrs. Osmond's warm, rich-looking reception-rooms, which were on the second floor.†
Chpt 36
- Osmond, however, took him in; he had never in his life felt himself so efficiently looked at.†
Chpt 37
- At last, however, he became—comparatively speaking—reckless; he cared little what promises he might break.†
Chpt 37
- Lord Warburton, however, now that he was face to face with her, was plainly quite sure of his own sense of the matter; though his grey eyes had still their fine original property of keeping recognition and attestation strictly sincere.†
Chpt 38
- Fortunately, however, I'm very happy.†
Chpt 38
- I must say, however, that I've in a few small ways a certain initiative.†
Chpt 38
- He ceased to look at her, however, very soon; his eyes constantly reverted to Mrs. Osmond.†
Chpt 38
- Henrietta's second visit to Europe, however, was not apparently to have been made in vain; for just at the moment when Osmond had declared to Isabel that he really must object to that newspaper-woman, and Isabel had answered that it seemed to her he took Henrietta too hard, the good Mr. Bantling had appeared upon the scene and proposed that they should take a run down to Spain.†
Chpt 39
- At present, however, she neither taunted him with his fallacies nor pretended that her own confidence was justified; if she wore a mask it completely covered her face.†
Chpt 39
- All I wish to say is, however, that if you were to be jealous—that's the form it would take—I should be sure to think it was a little my fault.†
Chpt 40
- Madame Merle, however, was wise, so wise that she might have been pretending to know Isabel better than Isabel knew herself.†
Chpt 40
- It's not to do you a kindness, however, that I've come to-day; it's quite another affair.†
Chpt 40
- She was checked, however, on her progress to the door, by an inconsequent request from Isabel.†
Chpt 40
- It was a pity, however, that Edward Rosier had crossed their path!†
Chpt 41
- Pansy, however, in spite of HER simplicity, really did understand, and was glad that Lord Warburton should talk to her, not about her partners and bouquets, but about the state of Italy, the condition of the peasantry, the famous grist-tax, the pellagra, his impressions of Roman society.†
Chpt 41
- He still, however, might strike one as very distinguished.†
Chpt 41
- You say, however, that she has only to sit perfectly still.†
Chpt 41
- Such a resolution, however, brought her this evening but little peace, for her soul was haunted with terrors which crowded to the foreground of thought as quickly as a place was made for them.†
Chpt 42
- She flattered herself that she had kept her failing faith to herself, however,—that no one suspected it but Osmond.†
Chpt 42
Definitions:
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(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.
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(however as in: However much she tried...) to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
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(however as in: However you do it, get it done!) in whatever way
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(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?"