Not many MPs are given the title honourable these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

There was one ship, in particular, to which they called his honourable attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korea's Fight for Freedom] Reference

They defended teeth and even claws, which they described as honourable weapons of immemorial antiquity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)] Reference

They may in time do something that shall make their new title honourable, but at present they are bitterly ashamed, and the man who calls them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soldier Stories] Reference

But with our private fortune, is it worthwhile to purchase at so high a rate a title honourable in itself, but which I must share with every fellow that can lay out 1500 pounds?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gibbon] Reference

He has been called the poet's poet -- a phrase honourable but.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

SUGDEN is a name honourable behind and before the foot-lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892] Reference

There is no single way she would win honourable and with dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oklahoma governor backs Obama] Reference

"You can't use the word honourable to describe what insurgents do.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami] Reference

You keep using the word honourable with regard to the use of carpet bombing whether by the Luftwaffe or the Allies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

The terms honourable, noble, and worthy gentleman, resounded through the room; nay, my landlord himself began to have.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference

Mr SPEAKER: Before I call the honourable member, the honourable member had a supplementary question yesterday and has had one today.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

Yet it certainly was not -- the word honourable rose to his mind, but he suppressed it at once -- however, nothing else suggested itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

If I believed it – or unless I knew that what you did had been in honourable warfare, I don't think I could bear to speak to you again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference

The word honourable here is not a mere title of office, but is given in reference to his personal character, as being a man of integrity and blameless life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

A Nubian slave belonging to my father, his beard had grown white in honourable service: I say "beard" advisedly, because male Arabs are in the habit of shaving their heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of an Arabian Princess] Reference

Bravo to you, the so called honourable neighbours of Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snips From The "Enemy" Blogs] Reference

British races in South Africa upon terms honourable to both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberalism and the Social Problem] Reference

Mr SPEAKER: I have called the honourable member's colleague.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

Some on that list, I had actually thought could rightly be called honourable members.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hypocrites] Reference

If so, they ought to be all the more ready to grant terms honourable in other respects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady John Russell]

You call honourable boldness impudent sauciness: if a man will make curtsy, and say nothing, he is virtuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act II. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference

The police decided to act after a string of complaints against the so called honourable Members of Parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blog of Kev] Reference

Twice during the last six months you have made attempts which can scarcely be called honourable to take Isobel from us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Mummer] Reference

You know, probably, that I was an advocate for the acquisition of Hanover, but I wished it upon terms honourable to both parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

There could now be no sort of doubt, that a peace with the northern powers must soon be concluded on terms honourable to all parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference

In the wider context, it seems that even daily routines involving the so-called honourable people and respectable citizens are no longer safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scribe A Kadir Jasin] Reference

Brings a whole new meaning to the word 'honourable'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another US Outrage] Reference

Well, I think we've maybe established how "honourable" he is.    From Wordnik.com.  [[ultimate cynicism] the man has that elite gall] Reference

However, it allows Obama to start dropping the "honourable" bit about McCain.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain: I'm Questioning Obama's Patriotism? Moi? Never!] Reference

MPs should not be exempt from this because of the pre-fix "honourable" they seem to enjoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wilson Doctrine places MPs above the law and should be scrapped] Reference

Browne did the 'honourable' thing by resigning, but my suspicion is that he would have found it very difficult to continue.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's About That Old Fashioned Thing Called Shame] Reference

Took his friend out to some deathtrap, probably let him fake an "honourable" death ... and then just closed up bis file.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

That is only a small representation of the times I’ve heard the word honourable since the story of alleged bugging came to the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superbug « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

Y: Treasures, and every kind of honourable position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side] Reference

Here was the inevitable "honourable" being dragged in again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War] Reference

There we passed the winter in a kind of honourable captivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet] Reference

North Korea, and Eriksson has been instructed to ensure his team give an "honourable" performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Lodovico contrived to name himself as Regent for his nephew, whom he kept, long after he had come of age, in a kind of honourable prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference