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

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 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 there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.

Though brief, it has a sharp dramatic edge and great poignancy.

Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.

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 the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

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 wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

Though cloning is still possible even with digital technologies, the cost of wireless service is so low that the problem has virtually disappeared.

Though Todd's last name has never been mentioned in the series, it was revealed in This Book Sucks.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Though no doubt also motivated by an affection towards Ruth, in marrying her he has to pay a cost in money and uncertainty.

* " Though the hippopotamus has no sting, the wise man would prefer to be sat upon by the bee.

Though much attention has been focused on the security and military aspects of Colombia's situation, the administration also is spending significant time on issues such as expanding international trade, supporting alternate means of development, and reforming Colombia's judicial system.

Though astronomers are not sure what has caused this ring of new stars, some hypothesize that it is from shock waves caused by a bar that is thus far invisible.

Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II.

Though the coyote is the basis for the character of Wile E. Coyote in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons, especially about the Road Runner, coyotes have not been known as yet to attack greater roadrunners for prey.

Though his sources on Gnosticism were secondary, since the texts in the Nag Hammadi library were not yet widely available, Eric Voegelin ( 1901 – 1985 ), partially building on the concept of gnosis as used by Plato and the followers of Gnosticism, along with how it was defined by Hans Jonas, defined the gnosis of the followers of Gnosticism as religious philosophical teachings that are the foundations of cults.

: Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ;

: Though all should be unanimous for setting him at liberty, yet would I cut him to pieces.

Though he did not realize it yet, translating much of what became the Latin Vulgate Bible would take many years and be his most important achievement ( see Writings – Translations section below ).

Though it is odd, yet it simply reflects the oddness of life.

Though Oman is developing into a constitutional monarchy, political parties are not yet allowed in Oman.

Though a popular movement the intellectual elite of the United States found phrenology attractive because it provided a biological explanation of mental processes based on observation, yet it wasn't accepted uncritically.

Its iconography illustrating the donor's career gives an edited version of Pius ' life, passing over his former support of the antipope Felix V. Though Pinturrichio labored for five years, the books never reached their splendid destination ; yet the Piccolomini Library is a monument of the High Renaissance in Siena.

Though this has not been confirmed by additional study yet, it is suggested that patients with these focal arrhythmias who are taking PPIs should bring this to the attention of their physician.

Though the term " retcon " did not yet exist when George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian regime depicted in that book is involved in a constant, large-scale retconning of past records.

Though neuroimaging studies have not yet found specific cortical correlates, there is much evidence that there are differences in the brain physiology of adults who stutter in comparison to those who do not.

Though not yet available, all that remains is approval by the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education.

: Though in Theravāda literature there is no mention of an actual pictorial execution of a ” Wheel of Life ,” yet the concept of comparing Dependent Origination to a wheel is not unknown.

Though the early literary presentations of Medea are lost, Apollonius of Rhodes, in a redefinition of epic formulas, and Euripides, in a dramatic version for a specifically Athenian audience, each employed the figure of Medea ; Seneca offered yet another tragic Medea, of witchcraft and potions, and Ovid rendered her portrait three times for a sophisticated and sceptical audience in Imperial Rome.

Though the assumptions surrounding this species ' origins were not yet entirely accurate, by the 20th century, it was established among naturalists that the brown rat did not originate in Norway, rather the species came from central Asia and ( likely ) China.

Though not yet commercially available, c-peptide has shown promising results in treatment of diabetic complications incidental to vascular degeneration.

Though polling suggests support for such reforms has been increasing, it has yet to be adopted as official policy by any of the main federal political parties.

Though a known criminal and a parolee, Valjean yet grows morally to represent the best traits of humanity.

Angelo Gilardino, who has worked at the Fundación Andrés Segovia in Spain, noted: " Though it is not yet completely documented, it seems clear that, since his tender childhood, learnt playing as a flamenco guitarist.

Though Disney Channel has increased its viewership to rival that of Nickelodeon, Disney Channel has yet to officially unseat Nickelodeon in the Nielsen ratings as the highest-rated basic cable channel among total viewers ( ages 2 +) and all kid demos in its annual ratings.