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The Chrysalids
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- ...there was just a chance that one might encounter some kind of wild dog or cat. However, and as usual, the only creatures I heard were small ones, hurriedly making off.
Chpt 2 *however = though (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Usually there was only some small thing wrong, but however much or little was wrong it was an Offence, and if it happened among people it was a Blasphemy — at least, that was the technical term, though commonly both kinds were called Deviations.
Chpt 2however = regardless of how
- My father, however, seldom called in the inspector, he preferred to be on the safe side and liquidate anything doubtful.†
Chpt 2however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- Nowadays, however, it was not only small children who lived in nervous awareness of the Fringes people not so far away.†
Chpt 2
- The interruptions were expensive and wasteful; moreover, they always brought anxiety if the trouble was near our sector: nobody could be sure that they might not come farther one time......Mostly, however, we led a comfortable, settled, industrious existence.†
Chpt 2
- At the age of ten, however, I had little appreciation of that.†
Chpt 2
- Gradually, however, that had changed.†
Chpt 3
- That, however, could wait.†
Chpt 5
- On second thoughts, however, I decided it might be unwise.†
Chpt 6
- Sometimes he is clever enough to make a nearly-perfect imitation, so we have always to be on the look-out for the mistake he has made, however small, and when we see one it must be reported at once.
Chpt 6 *however = regardless of how
- Such study as has been possible at a distance, however, does not confirm the view of the Right Wing Church Party that they are the result of unchecked deviation.†
Chpt 6however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- That was one of the parts of the journal that got Marther into a lot of trouble with orthodox people, for it implied that deviations, so far from being a curse, were performing, however slowly, a work of reclamation.†
Chpt 6however = to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
- In the middle of all the fuss, however, a ship called the Venture which had long been given up for lost, came sailing home to Rigo.†
Chpt 6however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- At last, however, he emerged, with an expressionless face.†
Chpt 7
- There, however, she remained very clearly, given form at a time when I had only heard her, as an upright figure with a face drained of hope, and a voice saying clearly: 'I am not ashamed — I am only beaten.'†
Chpt 8
- For it is clear, boy, that however wonderful the Old People were, they were not too wonderful to make mistakes — and nobody knows, or is ever likely to know, where they were wise and where they were mistaken.
Chpt 8however = regardless of how
- We found none, however.†
Chpt 9however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
- There was, however, no sign of a falling-off.†
Chpt 11however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- There was, however, nothing for him to take a firm hold of.†
Chpt 11
- However, I did not talk much about this part of Ethics to Sophie.†
Chpt 4
- However, I had gained something: I'd stopped him going after Sophie straight away.†
Chpt 5
- However, as your father has already taken action, I may be able to leave it out.†
Chpt 6
- However, there was nothing obviously wrong with her, so she had got her certificate.†
Chpt 7
- However, it was useless simply to stand there looking at the house; she plucked up courage and raised the knocker.†
Chpt 10
- However, now that he did know about Petra, I described the event more fully.†
Chpt 11
- However, Petra was tired, so that I did not question her as much as I would have liked to just then, but let her and Rosalind get to sleep.†
Chpt 12
- She says we ought to be sorry for them because, however old they grow, they'll never be able to understand one another much better.†
Chpt 13
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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(2)
(however as in: However much she tried...) to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
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(3)
(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?"