But the building to which they are nearest akin is Diocletian's famous palace at Spalatro; albeit they are far less massive, and far more fantastically ornate.
Albeit when we had duly handed over coin of the realm in payment, that gentleman became effusively friendly and apologetic--through his closed and barred door.
They share our Christian belief in the divinity of the Founder of our religion, albeit they consider Melek Taues a greater divinity than Him.
The entertainment which he provided for us consisted of the local pancake bread and a big dish of lentils; on which we supped very composedly, albeit we had no "long spoons.
It gives us a great idea of the resources of the Byzantine Empire that Anastasius, an undistinguished, albeit a conscientious, ruler should have been able to bequeath to us so superb a monument of his power.
But he might have proved a chivalrous, albeit a formidable, enemy, and his influence might have alleviated some of the vindictiveness of the campaign.
The Honourable Brush and many of his associates, barons and earls, albeit the shrewdest of men, did not know exactly how to take the son of Hilary Vane.
And Tom, albeit he had become so important, habitually fell once more under the domination of the hero of his youthful days.
No testimonial ever gave so much satisfaction to a popular rector's wife as that little ugly mug afforded her, albeit it was the very wooden-spoon of racing plate.
That weary look was so manifest now on the beautiful face that even the chaplain, albeittenacious of his position as a sea-anemone, felt that, for once, he had overstaid his time and was periling his popularity.
Albeit he come to me with stiff and standing tool.
He was naked, and in all his lims and members resembling the right proportion of a man; he had haires also in the vsuall parts of his bodie, albeit that the crowne of his head was bald, his beard was long and rugged, and his breast hairie.
They were in danger to haue beene put to death for their euill dealing herein, albeit at length it was concluded that they should remaine in prison till the comming of Lewes, vnto whose pleasure their cause should be referred.
Albeit my spirits were low, 'twas no small entertainment to watch the doctor and his rivals at their adieus.
And I have been thinking that we shall have your fete this year, albeit you are grown, and Miss Dolly is the belle of the province.
Rowland preached from the heart to the heart, and so his sermon that day was not in vain, albeit not perhaps written in the very best of moods.
How cheerily the wide, slated roof gleams forth from amongst the trees, and returns the warm glance of the sun with one almost as warm, albeit proceeding from a very moist eyelid!
Whereby, beholding the just becoming wealthier than the unjust, many albeit covetous at heart themselves most constantly abide by abstinence from evil-doing.
But your friends, albeitfar better off than yourself, considering your respective styles of living, persist in looking to you for assistance.
Perhaps you might; for have you not persuaded me I am possessed of perfect knowledge of this art of husbandry, [28] albeit I know that no one ever taught this art to me?
How different is an army well organised in battle order: a splendid sight for friendly eyes to gaze at, albeit an eyesore to the enemy.
The result is, that many a man, beholding how the just grow ever wealthier than the unjust, albeit harbouring in his heart some covetous desires, is constant still to virtue.
Albeit it was certain where he was, for he had laid waste the third part of Ireland.
I have a companion, albeit he is not skilled in this art.
When thus we plead such high authority thou wilt not perhaps deny an extension of the same privilege, albeit to a disk, small and insignificant even as ours, undiscernible by the eye of a Brinkley or a Herschell!
Sir Patricius Placebo albeit was fond of comparing the sightless bard to old Tiresias, of prophetic memory, whose ear and recollection nearly supplied the deficiencies of sight.
For at those times he seemed to speak also, albeit with closed lips, and an utterance inaudible to all but her.
In that culture and in that social order much of what Ausonius and Sidonius and even Fortunatus represented was brought to life again, albeit in a form they would not always have recognized as their own.
The Venetians fitted out a great fleet to meet it, and Marco Polo, the handy man who knew so much about navigation, albeit more skilled with Chinese junks than with western ships, went with it as gentleman commander of a galley.
Not so Larkyns, who is the same sprightly, merry fellow as of old, albeit his hair is streaked with grey, and the crowsfeet winkle in the corners of his eyes when he laughs, as he is ever doing.
No, child; albeit he is pale and much shaken for one so stalwart.
Brave men who hold the level of thy heart In patriot truth, as lover and as doer, Albeit they will not follow where thou art As extreme theorist.
But albeit it doesn't exist now-a-days, you were anyhow its mistress of old.
These fireworks were articles of tribute, sent from different states, and were, albeit not large in size, contrived with extreme ingenuity.
Yet albeit we've been a month and two days in accomplishing the journey; it isn't anything excessive.
Albeit Chui Erh listened to her words, she kept her own counsel for a long time.
But Chin Ch'uan-erh was, albeit a servant-maid, nearly as dear to me as if she had been a daughter of mine.
But albeit I feel disposed to keep these things, they are of no avail to me; so would it not be well were a servant told to carry the tray and to follow me out of doors, that I may distribute them to the poor?
And albeit Chin Ch'uan-erh indulged in solicitous entreaties, she would not on any account keep her in her service.
To die as I am dying now-- A soldier's death amid the gladsome shouts Of victory for which my puny hands Did their full share, albeit it was small, Was all my late ambition.
Burton, "Albeit I repeatedly enjoined him to defend and protect her until he concealed from her his face.
Moreover they looked at the dishes [431] and saw flashing therefrom a radiance that outshone the light of the sun, albeit each dish was covered with a piece of brocade, gold-inwrought and studded eke with precious jewels.
At this rebuke Leonard coloured up still more, albeit the words were spoken with evident kindness.
And in her face was an expression of exquisite sweetness--albeit now there were distracting emotions mingled with it.
Here arise questions concerning the borders of Bar and Lorraine, which concern us little to-day, albeitvolumes have been written about them.
After some haggling among her persecutors the elements were brought to her, albeit in slovenly fashion, bare of the priestly pomp which was their due.
The weaker man yielded, albeit protesting to the last moment; the old lion marshaled his troops, and on June 18th at Patay, between Orleans and Chateaudun, rode out to battle.
Nothing special was said about the murdering, which seems to have gone on none the less, albeit less openly.
Yet the cliff-breeders, albeit abundant enough, are but a minority of the daw population of this district.
Not by legislation, albeit all laws restraining the wholesale destruction of bird life are welcome.
There is but confined accommodation here, your honour--and we have been frayed out of our lives already by the visitation of Satan--albeit his fiery dart is now quenched.
But all my entreaties were ineffectual, he altogether refusing to give any part thereof to the queen, albeit he was himself a catholic, and professed secretly to be her friend.
