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  • 'Fair enough,' said Harry, albeit puzzled, as he turned to open the door.†   (source)
  • Some of the men chuckled—albeit quietly—and she kept her head held high as she reached over her shoulder for an arrow and nocked it into her bow.†   (source)
  • Sometimes—albeit, rarely—girls were met.†   (source)
  • Without concern for his own well-being, and with sword glinting, he slashed his way through Redd's soldiers, who looked like ordinary playing cards (albeit larger) when unengaged, but who now fanned out as if the hand of a giant poker player was spreading them across the green baize of a gaming table.†   (source)
  • It was just a museum display, albeit an excessively morbid one.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether it was the general anxiety of being on a date (albeit one with my would-be date sitting five people away from me) or the specific anxiety of having the Beast stare in my direction, but for some reason, I took off running after Takumi.†   (source)
  • They learn to roast turkeys, albeit rubbed with garlic and cumin and cayenne, at Thanksgiving, to nail a wreath to their door in December, to wrap woolen scarves around snowmen, to color boiled eggs violet and pink at Easter and hide them around the house.†   (source)
  • One of the back windows was missing, but the seats were intact, albeit mildew covered and torn and probably home to more than just rodents.†   (source)
  • This was the closest to him I'd been and I expected to spot all sorts of details — red teeth, long ears, narrow eyes — but he looked like a normal human, albeit a tremendously ugly one.†   (source)
  • Welcome back, albeit a day late.†   (source)
  • Albeit, a spy in pajamas.†   (source)
  • Artemis was the closest thing Butler had to a friend, and Butler was the closest Artemis had to a father, albeit one who obeyed orders.†   (source)
  • As the summer wore on, my dad continued to improve, albeit slowly.†   (source)
  • She let me run around, albeit reluctantly, with her husband, Big Richard, whom I worshiped.†   (source)
  • I never thought my own problems would very shortly mirror, albeit briefly, those of Edmond Dantes and the hopelessness of his years in the grim island fortress of Chateau dTf.†   (source)
  • Hays grew suspicious and watched Mudgett closely—albeit not closely enough.†   (source)
  • Perhaps what she meets in the cave is instead Nothingness, albeit some years before Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and the existentialists of the 1950s and 1960s articulate the dichotomy between, in Sartre's terms, Being and Nothingness.†   (source)
  • As Morris offered an impassioned critique of globalization, the comparison made sense — both men true believers, charismatic, driven by ideas outside the mainstream, albeit championing opposite viewpoints.†   (source)
  • They enabled him to see with almost razor-sharp clarity, albeit in monochrome.†   (source)
  • In any case, the result was that I finally gave way, albeit by saying: "Miss Kenton, I hope you realize that the responsibility for taking on this girl rests squarely with yourself.†   (source)
  • As for society, I must report that there are pretty girls here as elsewhere, albeit dressed in the Paris fashions of three years ago, which is to say the New York fashions of two.†   (source)
  • More importantly, I would become an artificer in my own right, albeit a fledgling one.†   (source)
  • When requested by Miss Narwin—on the first occasion—to cease, Philip Malloy did so. albeit reluctantly.†   (source)
  • Someone knocking, albeit hesitantly, at the door.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Heine has told us that her deceased husband, in joint conspiracy with the defendant's deceased father, entered into an agreement which, shall we say, was predicated on a rather liberal, albeit mutually satisfying, interpretation of these laws.†   (source)
  • But part of her still resisted the idea of moving in with him, with anyone for that matter, having at such great difficulty moved out in the first place, and become quite attached to her small flat, to the life, albeit often lonely, that she had built there, and also finding the idea of living as a chaste half lover, half sister to Saeed in close proximity to his parents rather bizarre, and she might have waited much longer had Saeed's mother not been killed, a stray heavy-caliber…†   (source)
  • In the United States, there was talk that the new Clinton administration might send troops to put Aristide back in power—albeit with conditions, such as accepting plans for "structural economic adjustment."†   (source)
  • I'm still on the board of directors of quite a large corporation, albeit in a passive role.†   (source)
  • Of all things, there had to be something better to do than ruin our evening by inviting Patch, albeit abstractly, into it.†   (source)
  • The combined weight of Saphira's declaration and her impregnable logic had convinced Nasuada and Arya to grant their approval, albeit grudgingly.†   (source)
  • When Lacy saw these same infants a week later at their regular checkups, they had turned into ordinary-albeit tiny-people.†   (source)
  • The ponderous arrangement proved to be a refinement to my plans, for it took me away from Moody twice on the same errand, albeit briefly.†   (source)
  • "Well," said his mother, doubtfully, more than willing, albeit in her fashion, to come flying down the road to meet him, "try to bring her to the party.†   (source)
  • The ring just sat there, looking very much like a gold ring, albeit one that had recently fallen from a thousand-year-old dwarf's moss diaper.†   (source)
  • And since my gut tells me to trust him, albeit grudgingly, there's only one decision that makes sense.†   (source)
  • But with it, I'd taken a stand against my mother, albeit small, for the first time in as long as I could remember.†   (source)
  • Harris argued, albeit gently, that parents are wrong to think they contribute so mightily to their child's personality.†   (source)
  • If Pol had not grabbed me by the arm and jerked me backward, interposing himself, albeit hunched over and breathing painfully, between me and the magus, I am not sure what would have happened.†   (source)
  • The Party, he heard a hundred times before he was five, was the Soul of the People; the unity of Party, People, and Nation was the holy trinity of the Soviet Union, albeit with one segment more important than the others.†   (source)
  • Would I truly become a goddess—albeit a baby factory goddess—should I actually find my way to the Celestial Kingdom?†   (source)
  • It looked much like the one he and Alec had boarded back in their settlement, albeit emptier.†   (source)
  • That is untrue, and evidence from discordant couples (where one partner has HIV and the other doesn't) suggests that condoms are quite effective in preventing AIDS, albeit not as effective as abstinence.†   (source)
  • The tunnel of darkness immediately flamed to life, albeit a green, somewhat hazy life.†   (source)
  • His fatigue from acting as Rob's social secretary causes some mishaps, albeit unintentional.†   (source)
  • In other words, her soul did condone the proceedings, albeit covertly.†   (source)
  • But this wasn't Ethiopian music, and not just because the words were English (albeit an English I couldn't quite understand).†   (source)
  • Which just happened to be decent looks, a pretty smile on a body that looked eighteen, albeit a short eighteen.†   (source)
  • So I told them the truth, albeit somewhat abridged.†   (source)
  • He had crossed over from ruthless, albeit nonfatal, greed into something potentially quite lethal.†   (source)
  • I believe, sir, that we have had this conversation, here in this N cry Hall, albeit then in a hypothetical context.†   (source)
  • In those days he had still walked, albeit slowly, leaning on a stick and grimacing with every step.†   (source)
  • As David looked on, Connor was doing a funny, albeit cruel, impersonation of Cynthia applauding Nolan's efforts on the fiddle.†   (source)
  • He truly was almost like a third parent, albeit one who played big-band music all the time.†   (source)
  • Not only does she have a husband who is a bog …. a younger-than-she-is bog albeit …. not only does she have a husband who is a bog, she has as well a tiny problem with spiritous liquors—like she can't get enough.†   (source)
  • Still a revolutionary society in our rapid acceptance of new lifestyles, manners, and morals, the United States, albeit with some backsliding, has been a world leader in recent decades in promoting equality for women and blacks; environmental protection; health, fitness, and dieting; and the reduction of smoking.†   (source)
  • Albeit with stipulations for verification of their safe delivery to Sierra Leone, no doubt.†   (source)
  • IN ROME the grass grows even in January and crops come in, albeit slowly, in December and February.†   (source)
  • They had a nascent space program and a fully developed, albeit primitive, information distribution system.†   (source)
  • They went timidly enough, albeit unhappily.†   (source)
  • The names Radziwill and Ravenel are pronounced with the same intense albeit slightly hollow hauteur.†   (source)
  • KATE'S head comes up on this, and KELLER stares hard; ANNIE'S tone is cheerful enough, albeit level as gunfire.†   (source)
  • It conked out later and had to be written off as a failure, albeit a noble one.†   (source)
  • We looked at each other and hope stirred, albeit cautiously, making us cheerful.†   (source)
  • Harry was even glad to see him, because he was company, albeit of a snide and taunting kind.†   (source)
  • After all, we only dated for about a day, albeit an eventful one.†   (source)
  • Grave-robbing became an industry, albeit a small one requiring an exceptional degree of sang-froid.†   (source)
  • And she'd be grateful to him, albeit reluctantly.†   (source)
  • There were a figure and a face, albeit out of focus.†   (source)
  • Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.†   (source)
  • Aringarosa had no choice but to accept the invitation, albeit reluctantly.†   (source)
  • Each was more fair and noble than any human Eragon had seen, albeit in a rarefied, exotic manner.†   (source)
  • Lancel lifted the cup and drank, albeit stiffly.†   (source)
  • Sophia nodded, albeit with a feeling of reluctance.†   (source)
  • The magus was reminded of a bear, chained in a pit, albeit a small bear.†   (source)
  • The concept had amused him tremendously, albeit in a rather morbid manner.†   (source)
  • That morning she'd been a medical student, albeit one who had fallen three years behind.†   (source)
  • Then they resumed their activities, albeit with quicker steps and quieter voices.†   (source)
  • She didn't delegate well in her professional life; I had the same reluctance, albeit more personal.†   (source)
  • Joy was a sweet child, albeit a lonely one; her father had been Jaime's favorite uncle.†   (source)
  • He was just an animal, albeit the craziest, meanest one he'd ever come across.†   (source)
  • I'm a necessary evil that's suddenly appeared in your life, albeit just for a couple of days.†   (source)
  • Obviously, the authorities had known, albeit after Reynolds was dead.†   (source)
  • It was still school, albeit with really small classes: one teacher, one student.†   (source)
  • Mormont did the duty, albeit with poor grace.†   (source)
  • It was a Norman Rockwell existence, albeit with a southern flair.†   (source)
  • "Will you please be quiet," said Bourne, close to laughing, albeit kindly, at his wife's brother.†   (source)
  • Therespides is going to admire you, albeit grudgingly, for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • -a comment that draws applause, albeit tentative.†   (source)
  • The dragonglass blade was sharper than steel, albeit far more brittle.†   (source)
  • I remembered that she was Iranian, albeit of Armenian extraction.†   (source)
  • Boros Blount and Meryn Trant seemed to be sleeping too, albeit on their feet.†   (source)
  • He looked like a little kid, albeit with a tat sleeve.†   (source)
  • Now we were American tourists, albeit without the proper stamps on our passports.†   (source)
  • Someone has begun to repaint the house, planted rosebushes in the garden, a missing chunk of the garden's east-facing wall has been replaced, albeit a little clumsily.†   (source)
  • So I can see the jarring scene, albeit in gray. scale: Margo Roth Spiegelman sits in a black leather office chair, hunched over a school desk, writing.†   (source)
  • Norfolk came to be a real source of comfort for us, probably much more than we admitted at the time, and that was why we were still talking about it—albeit as a sort of joke—when we were much older.†   (source)
  • Slumped in his wheelchair, the dying director was still breathing, albeit barely, sucking in sputtering gasps.†   (source)
  • There was a D-8 and a D-6 in his battery well, in use, and a D-8 sitting on the floor of his cabin—a third battery, albeit dead, which might presumably be thought of as a spare.†   (source)
  • Ever since its opening in 1905, the hotel's suites and restaurants had been a gathering spot for the glamorous, influential, and erudite; but the effortless elegance on display would not have existed without the services of the lower floor: Coming off the wide marble steps that descended from the lobby, one first passed the newsstand, which offered a gentleman a hundred headlines, albeit now just in Russian.†   (source)
  • And the next morning, of course, poor Ethel—properly, albeit indirectly instructed—would haul out all the jams and jellies and dust them off for my grandmother's inspection.†   (source)
  • If the twins survived the Awakening, then there was a chance, albeit a slim one, that he would get to see Perenelle again.†   (source)
  • Without David's advice, I never would have found myself at that firm, nor would I have spoken (albeit briefly) to the public figure I most admired.†   (source)
  • He threw himself eagerly into Harrison's mayoral campaign, albeit without Harrison's knowledge, sending postcards by the dozens and telling anyone who would listen that Harrison, staunch friend of the Irish and the working man, was the best candidate for the job.†   (source)
  • Mr. Morrison considered this; there was even a glimmer of comprehension in his gaze, as if he saw—albeit momentarily—his own, terrifying potential; but his eyes were quickly fogged over by his breath in the cold air.†   (source)
  • 'Good evening,' he said, every inch the gracious host, albeit a sinister, evil, intelligent and determined one.†   (source)
  • Instead, it became just another worst day, albeit the worst of the bunch, and as night fell fast, we continued on, drinking and joking.†   (source)
  • He was the same priest who had greeted Aringarosa five months ago, albeit tonight he did so with much less hospitality.†   (source)
  • He was especially pleased that he had turned the thrust of McAllister's questions against the questioner, albeit diplomatically.†   (source)
  • For hours, the only sounds were of pages turning as all escaped into a different world, albeit in proximity to one another.†   (source)
  • Anyway, since she was still technically in training, albeit the last stages, what could she do but seethe?†   (source)
  • The article covered the original legend, describing it in much the same way that Doris had, albeit with some minor variation.†   (source)
  • She noticed that the picture she'd thrown was back in place atop the piano, albeit without the glass.†   (source)
  • What is moral is not of the divine, but rather a purely human matter, albeit the most important of all human matters.†   (source)
  • Odd as it seemed, Beth had the strange feeling that this was almost a date, albeit one with a ten-year-old chaperone.†   (source)
  • Probably at Howard's insistence, he let the press come into the barn to see the horse, albeit without narration from the trainer.†   (source)
  • And in that moment, Miles knew he'd taken the first step, albeit a small one, toward finally coming to terms with his loss.†   (source)
  • At the same time that I was walking down a runway at the mall, modeling winter clothes, my sister Kirsten would also be in front of a crowd, albeit for a different reason.†   (source)
  • He was still exhausting them, albeit from another continent, wandering around Europe and sending only the occasional e-mail detailing yet another epiphany concerning what he should do with his life, followed by a request for more money to put it into action.†   (source)
  • That he did, albeit with poor grace, crossing his arms, scowling, and ignoring the naked steel in his lord commander's hands.†   (source)
  • Albeit one of the avenging kind.†   (source)
  • Instead, in his standard outfit of dark pants, cheap shirt, deck shoes, hat with captain's insignia, he looked like he'd just stepped off a boat, albeit not necessarily a nice one.†   (source)
  • I followed up with her until she turned eighteen, when the district court released her back into society, albeit under guardianship.†   (source)
  • He did recognize, albeit faintly, that he was too long, and too big, for this bathtub—he looked like a mostly grown person playing at being a kid.†   (source)
  • Less often than he'd thought of her, he was certain of that, but he had the sense that they were both lonely, albeit in different ways.†   (source)
  • She has been functioning in society, albeit under guardianship, for eight years without doing anything that led to a police report or arrest.†   (source)
  • The witch-child had her arms wrapped around her stomach and appeared deathly ill, but she too was participating in the battle, albeit in her own unique way.†   (source)
  • And speaking of which: when Hassan Harbish showed up at the Kalman School in tenth grade after a decade of home-schooling, he was plenty smart, albeit not prodigiously so.†   (source)
  • I did, albeit hesitantly, down the row of washers and dryers to a narrow hallway, which ended with a plain, white door.†   (source)
  • She looked around for Isabelle, who would probably be nearly as pleased as she was that Simon and Jace were getting along, albeit in their own peculiar way.†   (source)
  • But it was there, albeit softly, coming to me from some dark place I'd never seen but still knew well.†   (source)
  • You could even practice your archery, and then you would still serve your goals, albeit in a different manner…… That's why I had this laboratory constructed in the first place.†   (source)
  • Whatever small hope Jordan had kindled by discovering a valid defense-albeit one that had never been used before a judge-had been steadily eroded in the weeks following the hearing by the discovery that had arrived from the DA's office: stacks of paperwork, photos, and evidence.†   (source)
  • In that dialogue, one can hear terms, like check it out, used that same year by the black rappers we filmed in Philadelphia, and some, like tight, used today by the high-school students at Irvine, albeit with some change in meaning.†   (source)
  • And with each step he found the pain in his leg less bothersome and the barrenness in his heart less confusing and then he did begin to run, albeit a jerky, limping run.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps he shall yet be a spokesman, albeit for the cause of Christianity in his native land," Jocelyn said.†   (source)
  • Come fall, he'd head off to the U, where he'd recently gotten in early admission, albeit without his scholarship due to quitting swim team midyear.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, Otis continued to get better, and over the next few months, with the regular pool workouts and lots of milkshakes—he loved vanilla—he regained the ability to walk again, albeit with a noticeable limp.†   (source)
  • I HAD MY OWN SUCCESS, albeit a quieter one: I passed the written exam of the American Board of Surgery.†   (source)
  • He allowed himself to revel in satisfaction over having accomplished such a difficult feat, albeit with assistance from Roran and Saphira.†   (source)
  • One so garish-albeit compiled with extreme conviction-it would be laughed out of our most rigidly doctrinaire courts.†   (source)
  • Dr. Frank Ellis had lived in Sweden for many years and was fluent in Swedish—albeit with an American accent—but when Jonasson spoke to him in Swedish, Ellis always replied in his mother tongue.†   (source)
  • Walking back to the dorm, he senses that he's taken a step, albeit small, in an intriguing direction, and the brisk night air feels good on his face.†   (source)
  • While my mother and father seemed to recede into the past—albeit in different ways—her parents embraced the future, as though seizing hold of their chance at life.†   (source)
  • Oromis is one of the few who are brave enough to continue seeking out Galbatorix's name, albeit in a roundabout manner.†   (source)
  • She was the lone woman who could read, albeit slowly: "Message from His Holiness, Patriarch of the Church, Abuna Basilios," she said, and heads at once bowed, and hands made the sign of the cross, as if His Holiness were on the steps with them.†   (source)
  • All three of his sisters shared Jamie's dark coloring and outspokenness, whether it was about the pond (which they admired, loudly) or the recent elections (about which they disagreed, also loudly, albeit good-naturedly).†   (source)
  • When they return, as they surely will, Saphira and I are the only ones who can hold our own against them, albeit with some assistance.†   (source)
  • What he did not mention was that one could also extract energy from nearby plants and animals, albeit at a terrible price: namely, the deaths of the smaller beings whose life force you drew upon.†   (source)
  • While Eragon was grateful that he and Saphira were able to talk, albeit in a roundabout fashion, he found the spoken word a poor substitute for the free exchange of thoughts and emotions they enjoyed when in close proximity.†   (source)
  • The old man (I use the phrase merely in the paternal-vernacular sense; at age fifty-nine he looked strappingly fit and youthful) had not been badly damaged but there had been a considerable uproar and a crimson outpouring of alarming, albeit harmlessly let, blood from a superficial cut on the brow.†   (source)
  • His politics of course were deplorable, situating him I should say about 10 miles to the right of Mussolini, but withal he was what we who originated in the country have always termed a "good ole boy" and I shall miss intensely his hulking, generous albeit bigoted presence as we drove to work.†   (source)
  • …a school dance, when one of those artful little coquettes I have mentioned—of which Leslie was such a cherished antithesis—took me over all possible fraudulent jumps: breathing on my neck, tickling my sweaty palm with her fingertip, and insinuating her satin groin against my own with such resolute albeit counterfeit wantonness that only an almost saintly will power, after hours of this, forced me to break apart from the loathsome little vampire and make my swollen way into the night.†   (source)
  • I had, of course, experienced this surge of bittersweet time-sorrow often before—most recently when in a seizure considerably less sincere my cornpone blandishments had so notably failed to work their sorcery on Leslie Lapidus—but today the mood seemed especially fragile, quivering, poignant, translucent; I felt that at any moment I might dissolve into unseemly albeit magnificently genuine tears.†   (source)
  • And she, Mrs. Goldberg, had introduced Aunt Bertha to a very fine man, albeit a Russian, who was a children's leggings' cutter and who was having the identical type of work done to his mouth that was being done to Aunt Bertha's.†   (source)
  • And as the admission was made, albeit belatedly and with some ambiguity of inflection, the slight cloud which had gathered upon Mr. Duffy's brow was dissipated with no trace of rancor left behind.†   (source)
  • They came forth steadily and without break, albeit slowly, and he realized that she had planned this whole thing out for herself.†   (source)
  • Which act, Aunt Bertha added venomously, was a very gracious one, albeit unwitting, and one for which she was very thankful, since she saw no reason to inflict that man's rude and surly presence on poor Nathan Sternowitz.†   (source)
  • Cuckoo was willing enough to be friends, since she had her pay from Wang Lung, albeit she did not forget that in the great house she had been in the lord's chamber and O-lan a kitchen slave and one of many.†   (source)
  • This other is better, albeit a stitch or two will not come amiss in it, likewise ….†   (source)
  • Overhead the clouds were driving fast, albeit not a breath stirred the shrubs about us.†   (source)
  • It's a kind of nicotine–rich seaweed that the ocean supplies me, albeit sparingly.†   (source)
  • Albeit, they settled down at the door and swept into the room with their customary coolness.†   (source)
  • (To the monk): Father, this is the matter of the letter:— (All come near her, and she reads aloud): 'Lady, The Cardinal's wish is law; albeit It be to you unwelcome.†   (source)
  • A Martian, therefore, would weigh three times more than on Mars, albeit his muscular strength would be the same.†   (source)
  • Of a sudden, because of her effect on him, he felt bold and courageous, albeit a little foolish and added, "Say, I'm gettin' kinda woozy with all the pretty faces I see around here."†   (source)
  • It must have been especially troublesome for those visitors who were in the gallery, as they were forced to quietly ask the participants in the assembly what exactly was happening, albeit with timid glances at the judge.†   (source)
  • Milly was hungry enough, albeit she had been slow and, receiving her food and drink, she sat down upon a sack of grain.†   (source)
  • He regards, or so they tell me, its author, one Bergotte, Esquire, as a subtle scribe, more subtle, indeed, than any beast of the field; and, albeit he exhibits on occasion a critical pacifism, a tenderness in suffering fools, for which it is impossible to account, and hard to make allowance, still his word has weight with me as it were the Delphic Oracle.†   (source)
  • Dr. Kemp's solar lamp was lit, albeit the sky was still bright with the sunset light, and his blinds were up because there was no offence of peering outsiders to require them pulled down.†   (source)
  • First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.†   (source)
  • Franz's claim that his bride was waiting for him was thus shown to be a lie, albeit one that was forgivable and intended only to elicit more sympathy.†   (source)
  • —and there be plays wherein they that play do shout and fight till all are slain, and 'tis so fine to see, and costeth but a farthing—albeit 'tis main hard to get the farthing, please your worship.†   (source)
  • But now, albeit they had led to nothing, those moments struck me as having been charming enough in themselves.†   (source)
  • There was food aboard, albeit at exorbitant prices, and the three of them contrived to eat a meal on one of the seats forward.†   (source)
  • I pray thee of thy grace believe me, I did but speak the truth, most dread lord; for I am the meanest among thy subjects, being a pauper born, and 'tis by a sore mischance and accident I am here, albeit I was therein nothing blameful.†   (source)
  • For many years, albeit—and especially before his marriage—M. Swann the younger came often to see them at Combray, my great-aunt and grandparents never suspected that he had entirely ceased to live in the kind of society which his family had frequented, or that, under the sort of incognito which the name of Swann gave him among us, they were harbouring—with the complete innocence of a family of honest innkeepers who have in their midst some distinguished highwayman and never know it—one…†   (source)
  • There are many commentators who go even further in explaining it in this way and think the words, 'you're insatiable' are an expression of friendly admiration, albeit with some condescension.†   (source)
  • From then on, she bothered him by leaning forward over the back of the chair or, albeit very tenderly and carefully, she would run her hands through his hair and over his cheeks.†   (source)
  • There were one or two cartloads of refugees passing along Oxford Street, and several in the Marylebone Road, but so slowly was the news spreading that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of their usual Sunday-night promenaders, albeit they talked in groups, and along the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples "walking out" together under the scattered gas lamps as ever there had been.†   (source)
  • But when these storms of anguish grew calm I could no longer realise their existence; besides, tomorrow evening was still a long way off; I reminded myself that I should still have time to think about things, albeit that remission of time could bring me no access of power, albeit the coming event was in no way dependent upon the exercise of my will, and seemed not quite inevitable only because it was still separated from me by this short interval.†   (source)
  • …had contributed nothing to it by anticipating probabilities,—it remained integral and external to himself; there was no need for him to draw on his own resources to endow it with truth—'twas from itself that there emanated, 'twas itself that projected towards him that truth whose glorious rays melted and scattered like the cloud of a dream the sense of loneliness which had lowered over him, that truth upon which he had supported, nay founded, albeit unconsciously, his vision of bliss.†   (source)
  • The only things of real value are honest personal contacts, contacts with higher officials, albeit higher officials of the lower grades, you understand.†   (source)
  • However, in this case it was almost impossible to think of an acceptable excuse, his knowledge of Italian was not great but still good enough; the deciding factor was that K. had earlier known a little about art history and this had become widely known around the bank in extremely exaggerated form, and that K. had been a member of the Society for the Preservation of City Monuments, albeit only for business reasons.†   (source)
  • Albeit M. Verdurin had endeavoured to persuade the pianist and Dr. Cottard that their respective aunt and patients had no need of them, and that, in any event, it was most rash to allow Mme. Cottard to return to Paris, where, Mme. Verdurin assured him, a revolution had just broken out, he was obliged to grant them their liberty at Constantinople.†   (source)
  • K. still had enough control of himself to turn away from the deputy director and direct his friendly, albeit stiff, smile only at the manufacturer, he made no other retaliation, bent down slightly and supported himself with both hands on his desk like a clerk, and watched as the two gentlemen, still talking, took the papers from his desk and disappeared into the manager's office.†   (source)
  • In his little phrase, albeit it presented to the mind's eye a clouded surface, there was contained, one felt, a matter so consistent, so explicit, to which the phrase gave so new, so original a force, that those who had once heard it preserved the memory of it in the treasure-chamber of their minds.†   (source)
  • Since Odette never gave him any information as to those vastly important matters which took up so much of her time every day (albeit he had lived long enough in the world to know that such matters are never anything else than pleasures) he could not sustain for any length of time the effort to imagine them; his brain would become a void; then he would pass a finger over his tired eyelids, in the same way as he might have wiped his eyeglass, and would cease altogether to think.†   (source)
  • He stood gazing at her; traces of the old fresco were apparent in her face and limbs, and these he tried incessantly, afterwards, to recapture, both when he was with Odette, and when he was only thinking of her in her absence; and, albeit his admiration for the Florentine masterpiece was probably based upon his discovery that it had been reproduced in her, the similarity enhanced her beauty also, and rendered her more precious in his sight.†   (source)
  • Relieved by this expression of opinion, albeit it was vented upon empty air, Miss La Creevy trotted on to Madame Mantalini's; and being informed that the governing power was not yet out of bed, requested an interview with the second in command; whereupon Miss Knag appeared.†   (source)
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