Or if you are begged piteously to lift a stand-pipe wrapped to the likeness of a bundle, even though you sniff the imposture, seize upon it with a will!

" Then again I questioned if General Herkimer would have sent two boys as messengers, even though an old and experienced soldier went with them, when he must have had under his command many men grown who were thoroughly familiar with Indian warfare.

May not a publican put up the sign of the Saracen's Head, even though his undiscerning neighbor should prefer, as more genteel, the Cat and Gridiron?

Claudio, regarding the solemn promise he had made to Leonato, said, he would marry this unknown lady, even though she were an Ethiop: but his heart was very sorrowful, and he passed that night in tears, and in remorseful grief, at the tomb which Leonato had erected for Hero.

Even though the means involve a violation of taste rather than of morals, yet can they be justified by the goodness of the end?

The construction of an air-tight vessel was easy enough; but however large the body of air conveyed, even though its oxygen should not be exhausted, the carbonic acid given out by breathing would very soon so contaminate the whole that life would be impossible.

No; he hadthe Bible tells us that he hadto say and do stern things again and again; to act like the general of an army, or the commander of a ship of war, who must be obeyed, even though men's lives be the forfeit of disobedience.

She had scarcely dared to acknowledge to herself how dear John Crewys had become to her, even though she knew that she rested thankfully upon the certainty of his love; that she trusted him in all things; that she was in utter sympathy with all his thoughts and words and ways.

The lie was told at the instigation of Ulysses; but Neoptolemus repents its utterance, and refuses to take advantage of it, even though the fate of Troy and the triumph of Greek arms depend on the issue.

She had consented to abolish the trade in ten years; and had she not done this, even though we, after an investigation for nearly five years, had ourselves hung back?

Somewhere in that vast desolation of which Jean had spoken he would find her, even though he spent half of his life in the search!

The lower animal is wanting in this faculty; the passion which seizes it completely dominates it, and can be checked only by another passionanger, for instance, or lust, by fear; even though the vision that terrifies does not appeal to the senses, but is present in the animal only as a dim memory and imagination.

Our lot, in this sense, may improve; but we do not ask much of it if we are inwardly rich: on the other hand, a fool remains a fool, a dull blockhead, to his last hour, even though he were surrounded by houris in paradise.

Why, I couldn't win the Victoria Cross, even though I had earned it ten times over.

I was still a passenger, even though confined to my room, and he knew that I might find an opportunity to tell my story to Riggs.

Mike had never been caught, even though the cops, by this time, knew.

"Oh no," was the reply; "he's only a jumped-up jubilee knight!" Sense of humour of a kind the Cotswold labourer certainly has, even though he is quite unable to see a large number of apparently simple jokes.

They were defeated, to be sure, on this occasion also, but held their ground even though they learned that Caesar was already master of Spain.

The tragedy of the future of civilization was in the soul of that pallid, sharp-featured, ill-nourished man who had lived in misery within the glitter of a rich city and who was now being taken to his deathI feel sure he died in the trenches even though no bullet may have reached himat the command of great powers who knew nothing of this poor ant.

Even though he had been born in captivity, his desire for liberty was with him just as constantly as his trunk or his ears.

I'd rather have him than forty gold medals!" "Señor,"it was José, his neck wrapped in a white handkerchief, coming forward from where he had sat with Don Andres"Señor, I am sorry that I did not kill you; but yet I admire your skill, and I wish to thank you for your generosity; the medalla is not mine, even though you refuse it.

" She spoke very pointedly, causing her speech to seem like a menace, even though the words betokened gentleness and friendship.

On Sunday the 7th October, some signs of land appeared to the westwards, yet none durst say so, lest they might forfeit the annuity of 10,000 maravedies, which had been promised to him who first saw land; and it was provided that whoever should pretend to see the land, if his discovery were not verified in three days, should be ever after excluded from the reward, even though he should actually make the discovery in the sequel.

He supposed she had really cared for him rather, and perhaps he had behaved casually, even though she had been impossible, in the past.

In some cases it appears to be to a certain extent dependent upon locality, for it is stated that inhabitants of the Isle of Skye who possess the faculty often lose it when they leave the island, even though it be only to cross to the mainland.