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

Though he was glad she got on well with his young folks, she ought to be welcome at the finest house in the land, too.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.

Though she had taken away Alexander's sword, they feared to set about the deed until she threatened to wake him.

Though she suffered from consumption, Eliza supported Johnson's endeavors.

Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in prayer.

Though she did not categorically confirm that she was approached to do the reboot, Morris is not opposed to the idea, provided that production would not interfere with her Glee duties.

Though Naomi was a destitute widow at the time she re-entered Bethlehem, yet by the end of the narrative, we see her embracing her grandson as her foster-child.

" Though she claims thousands of followers, mostly in Germany, there has been no verification that any have lived for extended periods without food.

Though frank in places, Gaskell was selective about which details she revealed ; she suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and source of distress to Charlotte's still-living father, husband and friends.

Though Beaux admired Eakins more and thought his painting skill superior to Sartain's, she preferred the latter's gentle teaching style which promoted no particular aesthetic approach.

Though she later appeared in films Naked in New York ( 1993 ) and Getting In ( 1994 ), her first substantial speaking part in a film was in Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford.

Though Flockhart at first hesitated due to the necessary commitment to the show in a negotiable contract, she was swayed by the script and traveled to Los Angeles to audition for the part, which she won.

Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.

Though Londo never truly abandons his playful condescension towards Vir for his beneficence and even disagrees with his empathy at times, Londo admires and envies Vir's innocence and respects his opinion and assistance throughout his career.

Though his ambitions were great and he was able to buy both a country estate and a ship ( as well as civet cats to make perfume ), he was rarely out of debt.

Though Romana reveals that the equipment will bring him back after 2 minutes, the Doctor asserts that it is enough time for Scaroth to stop the explosion of the Jagaroth ship, itself the source of the spark of energy that created the beginnings of life on Earth ; should Scaroth prevent the explosion, every native living being on the planet will never have existed.

Though it is generally accepted that the first shot of the Civil War occurred when the Union ship Star of the West was fired upon from state troops at Morris Island on January 9, 1861, an old legend claims that a local resident named William Mauldin fired upon the Union ship from Fort Moultrie a few hours earlier, making his the first shot of the War.

Though Styron was made a lieutenant, the Japanese surrendered before Styron ’ s ship left San Francisco.

Though his father, older brother, and oldest sister were all going themselves the General refused to help Thomas find a position aboard a ship.

Though he was unable to halt Vale's immediate return to the bottom tier of the Football League, he succeeded in steadying the ship.

Though Brooklyn was hit more than 20 times during the battle, she suffered only two casualties, while her return fire resulted in the deaths of most of Cervera's bridge crew and grave damage to the ship generally.

Though modern in every respect and possibly the fastest ship in either fleet, Cristóbal Colón had one serious problem: She had been only recently purchased from Italy, and her main armament was not yet installed because of a contractual issue with the British firm of Armstrong.

Though Southack did recover some of the all but worthless items salvaged from the ship, little of this massive treasure hoard was recovered until the wreck's rediscovery in 1984-nearly three hundred years later-by Barry Clifford.

Though he is in effect the captain's prisoner, Larsen shows him favoritism and occasionally acts as a father figure, giving advice on how to survive aboard the ship.

Though it was not clear why the crew members complained, the ship was allowed to sail on 28 June after posting a US $ 30, 000 bond.

Though the ship and some of its goods were returned to its owners, Block made a lot of money, with which he probably bought the house on the Oude Waal.

Though it uses the same engine as its predecessor, several changes were made such as: the ability to toggle time compression between normal speed and eight times faster ; ship upgrades ( improving armor and adding new abilities ), Command Ships and Carriers are given the ability to add external modules for ship research and fleet support ; fuel was completely eliminated from the game and finally the sensor display could be used to issue attack orders to units.

Though whaling is much lower-scale than in earlier days, the single large storage ship model is still used extensively by fishermen.

Though outwardly identical to its refitted and updated predecessor, in its debut, the new ship is beset with teething problems and Chief Engineer Scott and Commander Uhura are shown making numerous repairs and reconfigurations to the new ship before deployment.

Though Lee was on the ship Loriot that took the company to California, Lee did not sail with them.

Though unusual for a civilian vessel, the cloak was installed in the ship so Icon could use it on Earth without attracting attention.

# Though this be Madness ....-The Enterprise is summoned to the Klingon Neutral Zone when a massive alien ship arrives and announces its intent to land on top of a major population center.

Though multiple shots were fired, including a machine gun barrage on the ship's bridge, the only injury was an operator that was slightly injured when he fell while storming the ship.

Though his salvage business never quite broke even during the course of the salvage of the German fleet ( he was ten thousand pounds out of pocket at the sale of his interests ), his scrap metal business offset the loss by turning considerable profit ; whilst Cox was frequently assumed to be a poor businessman who did not understand business efficiency, it is also true that he suffered from an astonishing amount of bad luck in the varying degrees of difficulty of ship salvage that ensures that no two lifts are ever the same.

Though the main object of the expedition had been accomplished in the beaching of Campbeltown, he remained on the spot conducting operations, evacuating men from Campbeltown and dealing with strong points and close range weapons while exposed to heavy fire for one hour and sixteen minutes, and did not withdraw till it was certain that his ship could be of no use in rescuing any of the Commando Troops who were still ashore.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

Though a minimum of three bishops participating is desirable ( there are usually several more ) in order to demonstrate collegiality, canonically only one bishop is necessary.

Though Western culture contained several polytheistic religions during its early years under the Greek and Roman empires, as the centralized Roman power waned, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Europe.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

Though several later authors have referred to Conan as " Germanic-looking ", Howard imagined the Cimmerians as a proto-Celtic people with mostly black hair and blue or grey eyes.

Though there are several methods for doing so, cDNA is most often synthesized from mature ( fully spliced ) mRNA using the enzyme reverse transcriptase.

Though this has never been proven, many observers in the press and academia believe that the US has not provided convincing answers to several of the more suspicious details surrounding the coup, such as the circumstances under which the US obtained Aristide's purported letter of " resignation " ( as presented by the US ) which, translated from Kreyol, does not actually read as a resignation.

Though heraldic forms initially were broadly similar across Europe, several national styles had developed by the end of the Middle Ages, and artistic and blazoning styles today range from the very simple to extraordinarily complex.

Though Symmes himself never wrote a book about his ideas, several authors published works discussing his ideas.

Though all these works have their roots in Chrétien, several contain pieces of tradition not found in Chrétien which are possibly derived from earlier sources.

Though these harmonicas produced a less distinctive ( and, to many ears, inferior ) sound than their metallic counterparts due to their plastic reeds, Magnus harmonicas, as well as several imitators, soon became commonplace, particularly among children.

Though no state conditioned ratification of the constitution on a bill of rights, several states came close, and the issue almost prevented the constitution from being ratified.

Though Forth delivered several advantages over the interpreted BASIC used on all other contemporary home computers, the weak box and small initial memory kept the sales low despite technical interest.

Though the team would bounce back with winning records during the next several years, the disastrous season would symbolically come to mark the beginning of the end of Kansas City's relevance in professional baseball.

Though regarded as a commercial failure in the States, it nevertheless went on to be nominated for and won several industry awards for its brilliant animation quality.

Though there were craftsmen in several cities ( such as Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent ), the major handicraft center for this cordwain was Mechelen, where it was mentioned as early as 1504.

Though now dated, several sources estimate the costs and suitability of deacidification treatment.

Though he remains the head of state, some of his former power is now devolved to several advisory and legislative bodies.

Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer / editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters ' growth and change.

Though the Type A barges were capable of disembarking several medium tanks onto an open beach, this could be accomplished only at low tide when the barges were firmly grounded.

Though the two species are never seen together, several references are made to the Rutan Host, an equally militaristic race with whom the Sontarans have been at war for more than 50, 000 years (" The Poison Sky ").

Though polysaccharides are also biopolymers, it is not so common to talk of ' sequencing ' a polysaccharide, for several reasons.