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 abandons the ship several times during the course of the series, her attachment to the crew always brings her back.

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 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 it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.

Though such works as Coming of Age in Samoa and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword remain popular with the American public, Mead and Benedict never had the impact on the discipline of anthropology that some expected.

Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.

Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.

Though most BBS software had been written in BASIC or Pascal ( with some low-level routines written in assembly language ), the C language was starting to gain popularity.

Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

Though a practicing Christian, he had been born into a Jewish family with origins from Portugal, and had converted at a young age.

Though the merger process was traumatic and the new party suffered a few years of extremely poor poll results, it gradually found much greater electoral success than the Liberal Party had done in the post-war era.

Though the Balkan allies had fought together against the common enemy, that was not enough to overcome their mutual rivalries.

Though Havana, which had become the third-largest city in the Americas, was to enter an era of sustained development and closening ties with North America during this period, the British occupation of the city proved short-lived.

Though Gauss had up to that point been financially supported by his stipend from the Duke, he doubted the security of this arrangement, and also did not believe pure mathematics to be important enough to deserve support.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

Though Chiang had achieved status abroad as a world leader, his government deteriorated as the result of corruption and inflation.

Though fascinated by the narrative elements of some of the pictures, particularly the Biblical themes of the massive paintings of Benjamin West, at this point Beaux had no aspirations of becoming an artist.

Though the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on the scene are pleased with the results and Alex is released into society.

Though most of her concerts were recorded during her solo career, few have been officially released, resulting in being heavily bootlegged.

Though 16: 9 ( and occasionally 16: 10, mostly for computers and tablets ) remain standard as of 2012, wider-screen consumer TVs in 21: 9 have been released to the market by multiple brands.

Though the game was never officially released abroad, ROM hackers completed an English fan translation in 2003.

Though he has been released and cleared, since 2002 he has been out of the public eye and is currently living a quiet life in Islamabad.

Though Snatcher was already available on several platforms, the Mega-CD version was the only one released in English.

Though the other two campaigners stopped their own campaigns in the week Roosevelt was in the hospital, they resumed it once he was released.

Though consisting of previously released material ( save for the " Purple Toupee " b-sides, which were not available publicly ), it gave new fans a chance to hear the Johns ' earlier non-album work without having to hunt down the individual EPs.

Though the original release was made under a license that did not provide any access to the program's source code, it is now released under the GNU General Public License.

In 1919, Robinson collaborated with Handy and Charles N. Hillman on " Though We're Miles and Miles Apart ", which was released by Handy's publishing company.

Though oxygen was undoubtedly released by photosynthesis well back in Archean times, it could not build up to any significant degree until chemical sinks — unoxidized sulfur and iron — had been filled ; until roughly 2. 3 billion years ago, oxygen was probably only 1 % to 2 % of its current level.

Though he started writing his lyrics during his lower league days in Japan, it was not until 2006 that he released his first commercial single " Accepterais-tu ", a French song with lyrics that fit well with his present personal status — asking his loved one to marry him.

Though initially sentenced to execution, her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983, however, and in May 1991 she was released for medical treatment.

Though the group was initially signed to Miles Copeland III's BTM Records, the label went under in late 1976, and so their early singles and debut EP, 1977's Packet of Three, were released on the Deptford Fun City label.

Though they are no longer produced, PCBs do not readily break down once they have been released into the environment.

Though no official announcement was ever released, the Winterland shows were the last live performances by Jefferson Airplane until their restoration and reunion in 1989.

Though it was released almost two years after TIE Fighter: Collector's CD-ROM, XvT was actually developed under an attenuated schedule of approximately 14 months.

Though Wilson was present for the Dutch recordings, he yielded to his bibulous tendencies ( primarily hashish and hard cider ) and rarely participated, confining himself to work on " Funky Pretty " ( a collaboration with Mike Love and the band's manager, Jack Rieley ), a one-line sung intro to Al Jardine's " California Saga: California ", and " Mount Vernon and Fairway ( A Fairy Tale )", a children's narrative suite musically inspired by Randy Newman's Sail Away that was promptly rejected by the band ; eventually, Carl Wilson capitulated and ensured that the suite would be released as a bonus EP with the album.

Though released to less critical acclaim than his debut, the novel was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award.

Though the series only lasted a few episodes, a soundtrack album was released.

Though released eventually, he may have been weakened by this event.

Though light guns have been used in earlier arcade games such as Sega's Periscope in 1966 and Missile in 1969, the first home console light gun was released for the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 ; later on, Nintendo would include one standard on their Famicom and NES, called the NES Zapper.

Though released without fanfare, the short was financially and critically successful, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject ( Cartoons ) of 1940.

Though Justice Society of America was intended as an ongoing series, and was popular with readers, it was cancelled after only three issues had been released, though the decision was made to actually end the book after ten issues.