Though clearly outnumbered, Col. McIntosh's defiant written response to the British demand included the following line: " As to surrendering the fort, receive this laconic reply: COME AND TAKE IT !".

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Though only slightly injured himself the big hoodlum never returned to those parts.

Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

Though, to be sure, we gave Kennedy no very positive approval in the margin of his preferment.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

Though put in rather maudlin terms, Steele's defense of himself has a reasonable basis.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

Though merely clear glass, it was a distinctive trade mark for an aspiring actor who hoped to imprint himself upon the memories of producers.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

Though Walter Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

Though, taken individually, the big rooms were, or seemed to be, square, the apartment as a whole formed a triangle.

Though this sculpture must take place thirty-three years after her moment of decision, he could not conceive of her as a woman in her mid-fifties, old, wrinkled, broken in body and face by labor or worry.

Though the pain was considerable Michelangelo was not too concerned.

Though Watson carefully ignored the man, he could not deny his presence.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

Though it had long been supposed that the religious aversion to secular music inhibited instrumental folk music in New England, recent research by Barbara Lambert, focused on the Boston area, shows otherwise.

Though the scene did not initially generate the same enthusiasm as An American in Paris, it subsequently overtook the earlier film to occupy its current pre-eminent place among critics and filmgoers alike.

Though for a time these several views were upheld, and though it was doubtful which came nearest the truth, the Church subsequently condemned the first two and approved the third.

Though Peel's supporters subsequently split from their colleagues over the issue of free trade in 1846, ultimately joining the Whigs and the Radicals to form what would become the Liberal Party, Peel's version of the party's underlying outlook was retained by the remaining Tories, who adopted his label of Conservative as the official name of their party.

Though his burial place was recorded, it was subsequently lost and he was listed on the Loos Memorial.

Though the Tribune endorsed George Ryan in the 1998 Illinois gubernatorial race, the paper subsequently investigated and reported on the scandals surrounding Ryan during his preceding years as Secretary of State.

Though the nationalizations were subsequently reversed by both subsequent left-wing and right-wing governments, the social reforms undertaken have remained standing.

Though disapproved of by most reviewers, George Turner ( in American Cinematographer ) and Danny Peary ( in Cult Movies ) endorsed the subsequently added frame story.

Though this result has subsequently been shown to be severely biased by the poor electrical standards in use at the time, it seems to have set a fashion for rather lower measured values.

Though not a widespread commercial release, it was considered of sufficient quality and worth to be subsequently re-pressed in 2002.

Though Louis rose, he was badly dazed for the remainder of the fight and Schmeling subsequently delivered the finest performance of his career.

Though he was not the first in England to work with the fibre, he was the creator of the lustrous and subsequently fashionable cloth called ' alpaca '.

Though some radiation escapes into space, it is absorbed and subsequently re-emitted by atmospheric gases.

Though the Act specified " King ," eldest sons of Queens Regnant subsequently also held the dukedom.

Though they were subsequently rebuilt by Haj Amin al-Husayni's Supreme Muslim Council in the mid-1930s, their previous " picturesque " character was lost.

Though Scottie was subsequently accepted to Vassar College, his resentment of Zelda was stronger than ever before.

Though rumors subsequently suggested that he had been poisoned, most historians believe Walker died a natural death from tuberculosis, as listed in his death record.

In his 1972 study of The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism, historian Sterling Stuckey suggested that Walker's Appeal " would become an ideological foundation … for Black Nationalist theory .” Though some have subsequently suggested that Stuckey overstated the extent to which Walker contributed to the creation of a black nation, Thabiti Asukile, in a 1999 article on " The All-Embracing Black Nationalist Theories of David Walker ’ s Appeal ", defended Stuckey's interpretation.

Though originally dismissed, the effect was confirmed in the early 22nd century and a drive subsequently developed by the Terran Alliance to exploit the principle.

Though Hall was subsequently unseated for political corruption, a seat was found for Harcourt at Derby, by the voluntary retirement of Samuel Plimsoll.

Though subsequently the territory passed to the Dukes of Burgundy, Hesdin remained one of a handful of French strongholds, until in 1553 Emperor Charles V ordered the utter destruction of the old fortified town on a rise of ground and built the present town the following year, some from the original site, on the banks of the Canche.

Though Cannon, who first proposed the idea of fight-or-flight, provided considerable evidence of these responses in various animals, it subsequently became apparent that his theory of response was too simplistic.

Though August Moon went gold, Caldwell subsequently took a hiatus from recording, instead directing his efforts toward composing songs for other performers ( and make his own version of this song ), most notably " Heart of Mine " for Boz Scaggs, " The Next Time I Fall " for Amy Grant and Peter Cetera, " Janet " for the Commodores, " Niagara Falls " for Chicago, " The Real Thing " for Kalapana and " All or Nothing at All " for Al Jarreau.

Though part of " The Invincibles " of the 1880s, he left Preston in 1888 to concentrate on his running, and thus was not part of the team that subsequently won the Double in 1888-89.

Though they share a common root, Cuban and Brazilian cowrie shell divination have subsequently developed in partial independence from West African practice and each other.