All 23 Uses
however
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- A few subscribers, however, protested.†
Chpt 2however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- One thought, however, consoled the viscount: he would certainly never be recognized!†
Chpt 9
- Now, however, I began to wonder, with a shiver, whether I was the ghost's prisoner.†
Chpt 12
- However great the service you rendered him, Erik may end by forgetting it; and you know that nothing can restrain Erik, not even Erik himself.
Chpt 21 *however = regardless of how
- I felt, however, that they would be sure to look upon me as mad and I refrained.†
Chpt 21however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- It is only fair, however, to add that the Persian had a noble and generous heart; and I do not doubt for a moment that the catastrophes which he feared for others greatly occupied his mind.†
Chpt 21
- As a member of the Royal House, however, he continued to receive a monthly pension of a few hundred francs from the Persian treasury; and on this he came to live in Paris.†
Chpt Epil. *
- However, he is always polite.†
Chpt 1
- In Paris, our lives are one masked ball; and the foyer of the ballet is the last place in which two men so "knowing" as M. Debienne and M. Poligny would have made the mistake of betraying their grief, however genuine it might be.†
Chpt 3
- However, in their relief at leaving a domain where that tyrannical shade held sway, they had hesitated until the last moment to tell us this curious story, which our skeptical minds were certainly not prepared to entertain.†
Chpt 3
- However, in spite of all our efforts, we could not, at the finish, help bursting out laughing in the faces of MM.†
Chpt 3
- "However, when the people arrived," roared Richard, "there was no one in the box, was there?"†
Chpt 4
- However, she consented to enlighten those two poor innocents.†
Chpt 4
- However, that mysterious person did nothing to bring himself to the memory of the managers; and they were just saying so to each other for the second time, when the door of the box suddenly opened to admit the startled stage-manager.†
Chpt 7
- He no longer doubted that she had "nothing to reproach herself with," however peculiar and inexplicable her conduct might seem.†
Chpt 9
- However extraordinary the adventure might be, I was now surrounded by mortal, visible, tangible things.†
Chpt 12
- However, I ate a few prawns and the wing of a chicken and drank half a glass of tokay, which he had himself, he told me, brought from the Konigsberg cellars.†
Chpt 12
- However, Mercier felt his responsibility increased as the minutes passed without the managers' appearing; and, at last, he could stand it no longer.†
Chpt 14
- Whereas, in this historic narrative, everything else will be normally explained, however abnormal the course of events may seem, I can not give the reader expressly to understand what the Persian meant by the words, "It is some one much worse than that!"†
Chpt 20
- However, I resolved to be extremely prudent, and did not make the mistake of returning to the shore of the lake, or of going by the Communists' road.†
Chpt 21
- ...However!†
Chpt 26
- He looked at me as if I were the devil and answered only in a few incoherent sentences, which showed, however—and that was the main thing—the extent of the perturbation which O. G., in his time, had brought into that already very restless life (for M. Poligny was what people call a man of pleasure).†
Chpt Epil.
- However, all these discoveries are nothing, to my mind, compared with that which I was able to make, in the presence of the acting-manager, in the managers' office, within a couple of inches from the desk-chair, and which consisted of a trap-door, the width of a board in the flooring and the length of a man's fore-arm and no longer; a trap-door that falls back like the lid of a box; a trap-door through which I can see a hand come and dexterously fumble at the pocket of a swallow-tail coat.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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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.
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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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(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?"