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Example sentences for "though very"

  • Though very warm, the climate of Malabar is very healthy, and the soil is fertile in rice, fruit, and all sorts of herbs.

  • Though very unwilling to leave him and my mother, I was, of course, obliged to obey his commands.

  • Though very unpalatable, it would serve to keep us alive; it, at all events, stopped the gnawings of hunger and enabled us to go to sleep.

  • We accordingly retreated towards the fort, though very unwilling to return without some ducks for dinner.

  • There are also cockles buried in the sand of the small beaches; and in some places oysters, which, though very small, are well tasted.

  • He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and who, though slender, are extremely strong.

  • As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work.

  • Though very shy of man, when once taken up in the arms she lay as quiet as a cat; but with all dogs she was very quarrelsome, fighting savagely with a greyhound bitch I had on board, and several times nearly killing a small dog.

  • By this time one of the men was seriously indisposed; all hopes, therefore, of proceeding much further upon this most interesting expedition I was compelled, though very reluctantly, to abandon.

  • The vice-admiral also was obliged to furl his sails shortly after, the fog being so thick as to prevent them from seeing each other, though very near.

  • A dozen or more of these birds were killed, though very shy, and their flesh was found lean and black, though not ill tasted.

  • The turtle we found here are of a different sort from any I had ever seen, though very good.

  • The characters, though very entertaining, are in the manner of other authors, and the finished and filled up portraits of which the sketches are to be found elsewhere.

  • There is a contrast betwixt the shield and purse, the targe being large and heavy, the purse, though very handsome, unusually small and light.

  • He was esteemed almost as another Giulio by Duke Vincenzio, though very inferior to his predecessor.

  • A few of his altar-pieces remain at Modena; and I have seen, though very rarely, some little pieces painted for galleries, dignified rather than beautiful in point of design.

  • But he chiefly employed himself in ornamental, rather than historic painting, though very able in the last, as far as we may judge from his S.

  • Papilio rhesus, of all of which, though very active, I succeeded in capturing fine series of specimens.

  • The animal productions of Banda, though very few, are interesting.

  • I will give here some account of two species of butterflies, which, though very common in collections, present us with peculiarities of the highest interest.

  • My dear mother, though very anxious to leave our villa at Fulham, would not do so on my account, while masters could be of service to me; and as I knew she had set her heart on this place, I worked doubly hard.

  • Lumley, with one of those dark looks which at times, though very rarely, swept away all its customary character from that smooth, shrewd countenance.

  • Evelyn, though very pale, and trembling from head to foot, retained her senses.

  • The colony of Surinam, though very considerable, is still inferior to the greater part of the sugar colonies of the other European nations.

  • This constant expense in time of peace, though very great, is insignificant in comparison with what the defence of the colonies has cost us in time of war.

  • The valuation, indeed, according to which the houses are rated, though very unequal, is said to be always below the real value.

  • There can be no doubt that the intellectual powers are most capable of enduring great and sustained efforts in youth, up to the age of thirty-five at latest; from which period their strength begins to decline, though very gradually.

  • The clinical record of Lathyrus, though very meagre, gives great hope that it may prove useful in numerous cases of bed-ridden paraplegiacs and in infantile spinal paralysis, as well as in certain forms of myelitis.

  • The back and soles of the feet are swollen, after thirty-four hours, with tearing pains in the ankles and soles of the feet on account of which, though very tired, he was not able to sleep.

  • Her heart trouble, though very dangerous, was only functional, and resulted from want of proper assimilation of the food, due chiefly to the dyspeptic state and dysentery.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    false belief; first cousin; supper time; though afraid; though always; though many; though none; though nothing had happened; though once; though rather; though she; though small; though what; though when; thought again; thought fit; thought myself; thought necessary; thought perhaps; thought she; thought struck; thought that; thought transference; thought very; thoughtful voice; thoughts were