howe'er
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Samuel Johnson, who was married to a woman 20 years his senior, once wrote forebodingly: For howe'er we boast and strive,/ Life declines from thirty-five.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh! do not curse him; He would not speak so hard a word towards you On any terms, howe'er he deals with me.
From Venice Preserved A Tragedy by Otway, Thomas
“Curious he form'd it; at the lightest touch “It yielded; each momentum, slight howe'er, “Caus'd its recession: this he artful hung, “The couch enfolding.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
Fair ladies and maids of all ages, Little girls and cadets howe’er youthful, Home-guards, quartermasters and sages, Who write for the newspapers so truthful!
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
And yet, howe'er it came about, I felt At once my master: you as prompt descried Your man, I warrant, so was bargain struck.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
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