It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.

I could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.

`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.

Father Murray goes back to the Declaration of Independence, too, though I may add, with considerably more historical perception.

Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.

A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

I felt very flattered to be included in the protection of their company even though I had nothing to be protected from.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.

The film boasted a larger budget than Carrie, though the consensus view at the time was that De Palma was repeating himself, with diminishing returns.

The letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in Attica, though mellifluous Aelian once boasted that he had never been outside Italy, never been aboard a ship ( which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de Natura Animalium XI. 40, that he had seen the bull Serapis with his own eyes ).

During the 1930s, due to oil profits, the city boasted more millionaires per capita than any other US city, though only for a brief period of time.

He boasted that it " took him only half an hour to talk away his face ", though the duration required changed on the several occasions Wilkes repeated the claim.

Shortly afterward came his best-known work, the Gothic novel Vathek ( 1786 ), written originally in French ; he boasted that it took a single sitting of three days and two nights, though there is reason to believe that this was a flight of his imagination.

Though the worship of the major deities spread from one locality to another, and though most larger cities boasted temples to several major gods, the identification of different gods with different places remained strong to the end.

On the bright side, though the ' 06 Redskins boasted the league's 4th best rushing offense despite losing starting tailback Clinton Portis to injury and saw continued improvement from young starter Jason Campbell, who capped off 2006 with a strong performance against the Giants, in which he posted a QB rating of 96. 2.

However, Cadwallon was defeated by an army under Eanfrith's brother, Oswald, at the Battle of Heavenfield, " though he had most numerous forces, which he boasted nothing could withstand ".

( Genealogical research proved many years ago that Aaron's father was a Russian Jewish immigrant even though the family denied it after Aaron was killed, and he boasted of this to members of his air training colleagues in the mess in Texas on many occasions ; see material in " We Will Remember Them " by Henry Morris and Martin Sugarman, published by Valentine Mitchell, 2011 ).

McLean, who in his prime was six feet two inches ( 188 cm ) tall and weighed over twenty stone ( 127 kg ), boasted that he could beat anybody, in either a legitimate match or in an unlicensed match with or without gloves, and reputedly sent out challenges to many of the famous boxers of the day, including Muhammed Ali and Mr. T, though neither contest materialised.

Great Keppel Island once boasted a resort owned by Contiki, dedicated to making it a " backpackers ' island ", though has recently been taken over by Mercure Resort, making it more of a family resort.

The amusement park began with only four rides, though it boasted 10 rides by the time of its grand opening on June 21, 1957.

The true PA-3 / PB-3 model would have boasted, though none were ever built.

To that end, they made it seem as though Ahimsaka had seduced the master's wife and boasted that he was wiser than the guru.

An optional high-output DBB engine with three twin-choke Weber 35 DCO 3 carburettors, special long duration camshafts, high compression 8. 6: 1 pistons and the dual-exhaust system boasted 195 hp ( 145 kW ), though this was rarer ( 10 cars thus equipped ) than the mid-level DBD option with triple SU 1. 75 " carbs and 180 hp ( 134 kW ) also with the dual exhaust system, fitted to 47 cars.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Polyphosphates gave renewed life to soap products at a time when surfactants were a threat though expensive, and these same polyphosphates spelled the decline of soap usage when the synergism between polyphosphates and synthetic detergent actives was recognized and exploited.

She looked about sixty, though I recalled that the chart gave her age as forty-four.

According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

His industry in every department was great, and though we find in his system many gaps which are characteristic of scholastic philosophy, his protracted study of Aristotle gave him a great power of systematic thought and exposition.

Later however the Government turned around and gave 50 % of the order to Philips and their P2000 homecomputer even though the P2000 did not meet all the technical demands, was made in Austria and did not have network hard nor software.

In March 1933, one month after the Reichstag fire, the then president, Paul von Hindenburg, a retired war hero, gave Hitler ultimate power through Enabling Act of 1933, he remained at the post of Federal Government Chancellor ( though he called himself the Führer ).

The principle of Schwerpunkt enabled the attacker to win numerical superiority at the point of the main effort, which in turn gave the attacker tactical and operational superiority even though the attacker may be numerically and strategically inferior along the entire front.

When Liddell Hart was questioned about this in 1968, and the discrepancy between the English and German editions of Guderian's memoirs, " he gave a conveniently unhelpful though strictly truthful reply.

Goldoni gave to his country a classical form, which, though it has since been cultivated, has yet to be cultivated by a master.

Even though Viscount Meng Yi gave his word not to interfere with an attempt, he went back on his earlier promise to dismantle the walls.

Even though the Ji family had practices that Confucius disagreed and disapproved, they nonetheless gave Confucius ' disciples many opportunities for employment.

The children spoke only English though their parents were bilingual in English and Welsh, and David Thomas gave Welsh lessons at home.

The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name " Edgar Allan Poe ", though they never formally adopted him.

Societal tension caused by second-wave feminism gave rise to backlash in the form of anti-feminist men's movements, such as Masculism, though today some see masculism as a complementary movement that does not oppose feminism.

It is believed that the Antonine Plague was smallpox, because though his description is incomplete, Galen gave enough information to enable a firm identification of the disease.

All gave their approval, even Johann Eck, though he later regretted it.

Fox seems to have had no desire to found a sect but only to proclaim what he saw as the pure and genuine principles of Christianity in their original simplicity, though he afterward showed great prowess as a religious legislator in the organization he gave to the new society.

After the end of the American Civil War, he published Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War, ( 1866 ) a collection of over 70 poems that generally was ignored by the critics, though a few gave him patronizingly favorable reviews.

The economic might and relatively advanced development of Tuscany at the time ( Late Middle Ages ) gave its dialect weight, though the Venetian language remained widespread in medieval Italian commercial life, and Ligurian ( or Genoese ) remained in use in maritime trade alongside the Mediterranean.

" He goes on: Men will always be sharply divided about Rousseau: for he released imagination as well as sentimentalism ;; he increased men ’ s desire for justice as well as confusing their minds, and he gave the poor hope even though the rich could make use of his arguments.

Around 1747 he had a son by a Miss Edington, and though he gave his child James Smeaton Hutton financial assistance, he had little to do with the boy who went on to become a post-office clerk in London.