Word: withall
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...espy one couple who had obtained a turkey. 'Twas a far cry from the scrawny skitterlings we used to pursue through the Virginia woods, a fleshy, full-breasted creature, almost sinful withal. And what were they doing with said bird...
...Withal, I do recognize that Pavarotti has done a lot for Opera's popularity, if little for its standards of excellence. And Mr. Pavarotti certainly stands out as the leading lyric tenor on the contemporary scene, a veritable giant among his peers--though still a weak rival to his predecessors."Dogma has no place in art. Politics and religions seem to satisfy man's need for pigheadedness. But there is similarly no need to be pigheaded in favor of Pavarotti's voice...
France's King Henri III first dropped in for dinner on March 4, 1582, and became a regular patron of the Parisian hostelry. Since Harry's day, its habitues have ranged from musketeers to movie stars, presidents to prelates. Withal, La Tour d'Argent has remained one of the brightest, most tenacious stars in world gastronomy.* Kingdoms and republics have passed, boulevards and bridges have been renamed, heroes have risen and fallen-and been denied tables -but La Tour d'Argent has remained as immutable as its name, a tower of salivary silver. To this...
...Withal, Merry-Go-Round was not so much reportage as an impassioned projection of Drewidic causes and crusades. Many were admirable. He invented and indefatigably promoted "the Friendship Train " which in 1947 collected from private American citizens 700 carloads of food -$40 million worth-for the postwar hungry of France and Italy. His diaries record and recall that he championed the cause of European unity long before the Common Market came into being, warned that the U.S. would face an energy crisis if it did not deal more evenhandedly with the Arab nations, and decried Dulles' brinkmanship, arguing cogently...
...round-eyed barbarians? "I do not know whether they have a proper system of ceremonial etiquette," one Oriental lord wrote of the Namban-jin, or "people from the south." "They eat with their fingers instead of chopsticks as we do. They show their feelings without any self-control...but withal they are a harmless sort of people...