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  • Fings yew wud otter-wise neber, eber know about. 2-day, howsever, we has reeched noo heights ? of now-ledge.

    some assemblies required - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Mr. Dick, howsever, seamed quite aware of the trap laid for him.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • But, howsever, I did my best to do all as he bade me — but maybe

    Agnes Grey 2002

  • The programme must howsever include the provision of infrastructure and services to beneficiaries of land restoration to insure long-term sustainability.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • I niver heard, howsever, as they got to be hintimate enough to quarrel.

    Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

  • He was always a savin 'man, -- looked after money a _leetle_ too sharp, I've often thought sence: howsever, 't isn't my place to judge him.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • One night, howsever, -- 't was jist about as dark as last night was, -- I'd been to the store at the Corners, for a jug o 'molasses.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • But howsever, I did my best to do all as he bade me – but may-be I'm plaguing you, miss, wi 'my chatter.

    Agnes Grey 1931

  • I telled him it was, an 'we was ill set to get more – but you know mum I didn't think o' him helping us – but howsever, he sent us a sack o 'coals next day; an' we've had good fires ever sin '; an' a great blessing it is, this winter time.

    Agnes Grey 1931

  • "Well, so I dare say," said Miss Janet, – "but I don't know so much about him; howsever he's got every body's good word as far as I know; – he's a likely man."

    The Wide, Wide World 1892

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