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 it is a public institution, Morgan is not a part of the University System of Maryland ; the school opted out of becoming a part of the system and possesses its own governing Board of Regents.

Though it no longer possesses anything originally connected with the abbey of Cluny, the hôtel was at first part of a larger Cluniac complex that also included a building ( no longer standing ) for a religious college in the Place de la Sorbonne, just south of the present day Hôtel de Cluny along Boulevard Saint-Michel.

Though Zeta no longer possesses the vast array of weapons he originally came equipped with, his arms are equipped with saw blades and cutting lasers.

Though the character is an itako in both works and possesses a similar appearance and background, the Anna Kyoyama who appears in Itako no Anna and Butsu Zone has a cheerful and enthusiastic personality compared to the aggressive and intimidating Anna in Shaman King.

Though the exact mechanism is unknown, there is evidence to suggest that thymol possesses at least some of its biocidal properties via membrane disruption.

Though Oregon v. Mitchell affirmed the federal government's power to set a minimum voting age for federal elections, no case has tested whether the federal government possesses the power to prevent states from lowering their voting ages to below 18 for non-federal elections since the federal government has not tried to prohibit states from doing so, nor have any states tried to.

Though she possesses a sardonic sense of humor and is fun to be around, she suffers from low self-esteem.

Though not charming or cosmopolitan as larger cities like Quito or Guayaquil, or as physically beautiful as smaller cities like Baños or Otavalo, Ambato possesses real attractions, including the modern cathedral and the Mera house.

Though set next to an interstate highway ( 10 ), the park's west face possesses an unspoiled Sonoran Desert setting.

Though its computer brain dates back to before the Great Cataclysm and possesses an encyclopedic database, there are large holes in its memory.

Though it possesses many characteristic features of a Bruckner symphony, it differs the most from the rest of his symphonic repertory.

Though she cannot remember much of her past life, she still possesses various abilities of her fox self.

Though these machines are early forerunners to computer engineering, the calculator failed to be a great commercial success.

Though at first seen as a data collection and outcome reporting tool, the use of computer technology in the classrooms, meeting areas, and homes continued to unfold.

Though designed strictly as a mechanism to support " natural language conversation " with a computer, ELIZA's DOCTOR script was found to be surprisingly successful in eliciting emotional responses from users who, in the course of interacting with the program, began to ascribe understanding and motivation to the program's output.

Though the exact definition varies between scholars, natural language can broadly be defined in contrast on the one hand to artificial or constructed languages, such as computer programming languages like Python and international auxiliary languages like Esperanto, and on the other hand to other communication systems in nature, such as the waggle dance of bees.

Though perhaps not technically " wearable ," in 1986 Steve Roberts built Winnebiko-II, a recumbent bicycle with on-board computer and chorded keyboard.

Though mathematics, statistics, and computer science are not considered natural sciences, for instance, they provide many tools and frameworks used within the natural sciences.

Though predominantly found in computer devices, DVI is also present in some consumer electronics such as television sets.

Though technically the term may be applied to art done using other media or processes and merely scanned in, it is usually reserved for art that has been non-trivially modified by a computing process ( such as a computer program, microcontroller or any electronic system capable of interpreting an input to create an output ); digitized text data and raw audio and video recordings are not usually considered digital art in themselves, but can be part of the larger project of computer art and information art.

Though the services offered vary from local branch to local branch, public libraries in Canada are not only places to read and borrow books ; they are also hubs of community services, such as early reading programs, computer access, and tutoring and literacy help for children and adults.

Though sprites have been a major component of many early video games, the modern, " mainstream " activity called " Spriting " arose with the advent of widely-available computer graphics programs capable of editing and saving raster images.

Though standards do exist for measuring and reporting sound power output by such things as computer components, they are often ignored.

* Though not the first " questing " computer game, Adventure was the first to be programmed for a home console.

Though usually undetectable to human senses, computer scanning can be used to reveal these discrepancies, and they may explain the frequent complaint ( by some gourmets and connoisseurs ) that replicated food and beverages suffer from substandard taste.

Though Solomonoff's inductive inference is not computable, several AIXI-derived algorithms approximate it in order to make it run on a modern computer.

Though a skilled computer hacker, Frohike was primarily the photography specialist for the newsletter.

Though traditional animation is now commonly done with computers, it is important to differentiate computer-assisted traditional animation from 3D computer animation, such as Toy Story and Ice Age.

Though apparently unintelligent, this is due to heat negatively affecting the conductivity of their silicon brains, which operate in a similar fashion to computer circuits ( in essence a trollish form of hyperthermia ).

Though this type of effect is now often created through computer animation, slit-scan is a mechanical technique.

Though effective to prevent unauthorized access, this component may fail to check potentially harmful content such as computer worms or Trojans being transmitted over the network.

Though this has been so far successful only in assembling computer chips at the micro size, researchers hope to eventually be able to do it at the nanometer size for multiple products, including nanosensors.

Though the previous level specifies details of the implementation, the outputs of this stage are implementation-independent and concentrate on the requirements for the human computer interface.

Though computer projectors are technologically advanced, they are not always completely reliable because technological breakdowns are not uncommon of the computers of today.

Though early in his life he worked as a computer programmer with the IBM 360 assembly language, he has been designing games since the 1950s.