“Behold, I am disease,” saith the evil deed: that is its honourableness. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
That said, there is some curious aspect to the “honourableness” premium public employees pay. From Wordnik.com. [Cartoon: What Society Values] Reference
“The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.”. From Wordnik.com. [Cartoon: What Society Values] Reference
But before men who have been properly brought up we shall dwell chiefly on praise and honourableness, and speak chiefly of those kinds of virtues which are concerned in maintaining and increasing the general advantage of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
This will be shown if the law appears to refer to matters of the greatest importance, and usefulness, and honourableness, and sanctity; so that it is disadvantageous, or discreditable, or impious not to obey the law as carefully as possible in such a matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
But the honourableness and the valour shown by you. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
"Behold, I am disease," saith the evil deed: that is its honourableness. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
The world admires the honourableness of the Right Honourable Sir Bilkins. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Bountiful] Reference
He seemed to her so fine and true; his face was frank, he was the soul of honourableness. From Wordnik.com. [King Coal : a Novel] Reference
Selection criteria for new entrants included "notoriety, honourableness, merit and talent". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
There was a sort of base honourableness about toil, however needless, in that system of inversion. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
Worldly Right-honourableness; 'the highest Fact,' so devout Novalis calls it, 'in the Rights of Man.'. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
While we were speaking French, he played upon the word honnête, and hunted the honourableness of Phyllis over all its meanings. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Fair Saint. Book VI] Reference
Surely common sense, temperance, honest work, honourableness, fidelity, were good fruits of human life and of useful citizenship. From Wordnik.com. [Roads from Rome] Reference
Yet such is the power of convention over honourableness that I could not bring myself to reply directly, 'Yes, I am your friend.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sacred and Profane Love] Reference
The woes of the two lovers were as different as possible, though equally balanced; and the honourableness of their undertaking was equally high. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2] Reference
That pride was, among the men who gave its character to the century, in honourableness of private conduct, and useful magnificence of public art. From Wordnik.com. [Val d'Arno] Reference
First, The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. From Wordnik.com. [X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock] Reference
First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment …. From Wordnik.com. [Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
And in good sooth, 'twill lack a mint of money spent thereon ere the house be meet for any, let be a gentleman and gentlewoman of your honourableness. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference
Was he not, then, justified in living his own life in the best possible way, atoning for the meagreness of his talent by the honourableness of his quest?. From Wordnik.com. [Roads from Rome] Reference
And it is of no use to try to conceal this sorrowful fact by fine words, and to talk to the workman about the honourableness of manual labour and the dignity of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
We honourably only looked at the address, although it is allowed by the rules of honourableness to read postcards that come to your house if you like, even if they are not for you. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
And even when he knew that there was nothing behind it, that it was indeed little more than an imaginative inertness, he could still admire and respect her steady dignity and her consistent honourableness. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Britling Sees It Through] Reference
I trust, fully established, and then, in the paintings and decorations of them, especial effort ought to be made to express the worthiness and honourableness of the trade for whose members they are founded. From Wordnik.com. [A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)] Reference
'Papa!' holding up her finger as in warning, 'you are getting mysterious again; and though my honourableness is very strong, I won't promise that it shall not yield to my curiosity if you go on hinting at untold secrets.'. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
The whole mass of the architecture, founded on Greek and Roman models, which we have been in the habit of building for the last three centuries, is utterly devoid of all life, virtue, honourableness, or power of doing good. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
No matter what may be the moral uprightness of man's life, the honourableness of his career, or the orthodoxy of his creed, if he exercises the function of loving the world, that defines his world -- he belongs to the Organic Kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Thoughts] Reference
And all the while she thought upon Robin, and his passionate old father, and attempted to understand the emotions that fought in the heart that had so disclosed itself to her -- its aged obstinacy, its loyalty and its confused honourableness. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
Shaped or overweight should pay out remarkable notice to getting a honourableness fit. From Wordnik.com. [Top Information about Home Management] Reference
"Or, may be, it might please your honourableness to turn your goodly eyes upon the clock, and behold whether it be meet time for a decent maid to come home of a feast-day even?. From Wordnik.com. [For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary] Reference
How's that strike your honourableness?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
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