– Ah, your honour is a noble gentleman, and will reward your old soldier! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Manor House] Reference
As long as what we call our honour is clear, I suppose your mind is pretty easy. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
For a pitiable and ephemeral chase after happiness, which you call honour and freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Home] Reference
This honour is also for my family, friends, partners and supporters throughout the world. From Wordnik.com. [Wangari Maathai - Nobel Lecture] Reference
"And yet you have a sense of what you call honour, which, I fear, would lead you into much risk.". From Wordnik.com. [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1] Reference
Dear Pizza Hut Momma, in this time of sorrow I feel a few words in your honour is the least I could do. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-26] Reference
I doubt you must engage his pride, which he calls his honour: and that you must throw off a little more of the veil. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Withered, though only thirty, one thing alone remained to be lost, what he called his honour, which was already on the scent to play booty. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Duke] Reference
He has some foolish feeling of what he calls honour; as if a man can be bound in honour to marry a woman who has deceived him in every point!. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
Say that to satisfy what you call honour and I call selfishness, we part, we break our hearts well nigh, we rally, we try to forget each other, we marry elsewhere?. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
If it is yes, or, in other words, if you possess what you call honour and conscience, and we more justly call common-sense, then accede to our demand, and the matter is at an end. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Why, said she, what does he call honour, think you?. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
Alas! that they called honour is thought of no more. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson]
Why, said she, what does he call honour, think you? —. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Could there be a more ghastly parody on the word honour?. From Wordnik.com. [The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent] Reference
'Is the word honour just a sound to you?' asked Nogusta. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Warriors]
Catching at the word honour, Lady Valleys cried suddenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Patrician] Reference
Her honour is gone, and she must bid farewell to all her dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
What else can I do but cast thee off, when I cannot in honour save thee?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Sold the sham he dubbed his honour, changed the thing he deemed his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892] Reference
"Mr. Copperhead, what prevents me is a small thing called honour, that is all.". From Wordnik.com. [Phoebe, Junior] Reference
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
Those that humble themselves shall be exalted, not only in honour, but in comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
The prestigious honour from the Swedish Academy includes a cheque for ten million kronor. From Wordnik.com. [ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News] Reference
Jeremiah must live a bachelor, not so much in honour of virginity as in diminution of it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Or the days of Baalim are the solemn festival days which they kept in honour of their idols. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Streone had submitted, as if he knew that he had no further hope of honour from the Danish king. From Wordnik.com. [King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut] Reference
British 1960s folk singer Donovan has received a prestigious cultural honour from the French government. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Reporters have been invited to the secretive state to view a military parade in honour of the new great leader, Kim Jong-un. From Wordnik.com. [North Korea's charm offensive marks the handover to its new leader] Reference
Men in honour that understand, that know and do their duty and make conscience of it, are as gods, and children of the Most. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
They are set up in honour, set up (as they think) out of the reach of danger, and lifted up in the pride of their own spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
All opposing rule, principality, and power, will be put down, and holiness and love will triumph, and be in honour, to eternity. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
"I should have said," I replied, "that the idea of honour had almost disappeared, what used to be called the honour of a gentleman.". From Wordnik.com. [Gossamer 1915] Reference
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