Use honora in a sentence
Sentences starting with honora
- Honora repeated the word. [9]
- Honora did likewise, wondering at the facility with which Mr. Holt worded his appeal, and at the number of things he found to pray for. [9]
- Honora had not wished to go ashore. [9]
- Honora actually quivered when she read of Dr. Johnson's first conversation with Miss Burney. [9]
- Honora descended, and was almost at the flight of steps leading down to the office door when a familiar figure appeared coming out of it. [9]
- Honora has a vivid remembrance of the impression the house made on her, with its polished floors and spacious rooms filled with a new and mysterious and altogether inspiring fashion of things. [9]
- Honora picked them up. [9]
- Honora picked it up. [9]
- Honora picked them up, and it was then she perceived that the tears were raining down the good lady's cheeks. [9]
- Honora cannot be unduly blamed. [9]
Sentences ending with honora
- That no other woman is possible, or ever can be possible, for me should be a consideration with you, Honora. [9]
- It was Starling who lifted her off--George Pembroke stood by Honora. [9]
- His ambition, if we may use so large a word for the sentiment that had filled his breast, had been coincident with his prenuptial passion for Honora. [9]
- How many of us have had the same experience as Honora! [9]
- He insisted upon treating her as the same Honora. [9]
- Are you coming to Silverdale with me, Honora? [9]
- I came here to see you, I came here because I love you, because I have always loved you, Honora. [9]
- And by that time," he added, with a twinkle in his eye, "you'll be ready to marry Honora. [9]
- There was not the slightest doubt that he could be effectively rude, and often was; but it was evident, for some reason, that he meant to be gracious (for Mr. Pembroke) to Honora. [9]
- No need to tell Honora what Sutcliffe was--her cousins had talked of little else during the past winter; and shown, if the truth be told, just a little commiseration for Honora. [9]
Short sentences using honora
- Honora looked over them curiously. [9]
- Honora glanced at the Vicomte. [9]
- Honora walked through the rooms. [9]
- Honora bent over the crib. [9]
- Honora stepped into the breach. [9]
- Don't you think so, Honora? [9]
- Honora was still smiling. [9]
- You've exaggerated the situation, Honora. [9]
- But Honora was silent. [9]
- A sudden fear seized Honora. [9]
Sentences containing honora two or more times
- Honora circumscribed, Honora limited, Honora admitting defeat, and this chronicle would be finished. [9]
- Even when Mrs. Kame chose to ridicule Quicksands Honora was silent, so keenly did she feel the justice of her guest's remarks; and the implication was that Honora did not belong there. [9]
More example sentences with the word honora in them
- Two of the younger men Honora recognized with a start, but for a moment she could not place them--until suddenly she remembered that she had seen them on her wedding trip at Hot Springs. [9]
- And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
- The trouble with you, Honora, is that you want something badly very badly--and you haven't yet found out what it is. [9]
- I only ask you to remember, Honora, that you have not explained these reasons very clearly in your letters to your aunt and uncle. [9]
- The bundle of yellow-stained envelopes he had brought were lying on the table, and Honora picked them up mechanically. [9]
- In his tenderer years, Honora even fired George, and riots occurred which took the combined efforts of Cousin Eleanor and Mammy Lucy to quell. [9]
- Once inside, Honora would look helplessly about her in the darkness while her escort would raise the shades, admitting a gloomy light on bare interiors or shrouded furniture. [9]
- And if true, would Chiltern resist, even as she, Honora, had resisted, loyally? [9]
- As the afternoon wore on there were silences, when Honora, by staring over the waters, tried to collect her thoughts. [9]
- It was a wonderful month, that Parisian September, which Honora, when she allowed herself to think, felt that she had no right to. [9]
- As for their wives, Mrs. Joshua was a merry, brown-eyed little lady already inclining to stoutness, and Honora felt at home with her at once. [9]
- And the gentleman with the pink face, whom she is entertaining--" "Is my husband," said Honora, smiling. [9]
- He played, indeed, with the cocksureness and individuality one might have expected; and Honora, forgetting at moments the disturbing elements by which she was surrounded, followed him with fascination. [9]
- Summer came again, with its anniversaries and its dragging, interminable weeks: demoralizing summer, when Mrs. Mayo quite frankly appeared at her side window in a dressing sacque, and Honora longed to do the same. [9]
- To Honora, gifted with imagination, the house had an odour all its own; a rich, clean odour significant, in later life, of wealth and luxury and spotless housekeeping. [9]
- Through the open window Honora perceived the form of Joshua asleep in the hammock, his Sunday coat all twisted under him. [9]
- Shorter," said Honora, whose surprise had given place to a very natural resentment, since she had not the honour of knowing Mrs. Grainger. [9]
- It matters not whose hand: Honora never sought to know. [9]
- It was Honora whom Mr. Spence sought after breakfast, and to whom he declared that her presence alone prevented him from leaving that afternoon. [9]
- Those of us who, like Honora, believe in Providence, do not trouble ourselves with mere matters of dollars and cents. [9]
- It was Honora who went up to her with a calmness that awed them. [9]
- It was Honora who told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself. [9]
- And after a while Honora was thankful that chance had sent her in this hour to him rather than to Mrs. Kame. [9]
- Soul-satisfying philosophy, to which Honora was to cling for many years of life. [9]
- And Honora wondered whether there were not an element of truth in what Mr. Dewing said of their hostess--that she thought nothing immoral except novels with happy endings. [9]
- The Vicomte's feelings were by no means hidden processes to Honora, and it was as though she could lift the lid of the furnace at any time and behold the growth of the flame which she had lighted. [9]
- Honora, when she went to town for the day, generally could be sure of finding some one, at least, of the Holt family at home at luncheon time. [9]
- For a whole week after her instalment Honora was in a continual state of excitement and anticipation, and the sound of wheels and voices on the highroad beyond the hedge sent her peeping to her curtains a dozen times a day. [9]
- Happy we if we can follow Honora, and we must be prepared to make many friends and drop them in the process. [9]
- The Honourable Dave was unmarried; and, he told Honora, not likely to become so. [9]
- Mrs. Holt's remark was to the effect that Honora was going to a sensible home. [9]
- Ethel Wing, who was next to Honora, nudged her and laughed, and passed her some of Maillard's chocolates, which she had in her pocket. [9]
- The dinner itself was more like a ceremony than a meal, and as it proceeded, Honora found it increasingly difficult to rid herself of a curious feeling of being on probation. [9]
- And now she was aware that Susan's blue eyes were fixed upon her, and that they had a strange and penetrating quality she had never noticed before: a certain tenderness, an understanding that made Honora redden and turn. [9]
- To Honora there was an irresistible and mysterious fascination in all these trophies, each suggesting a finished --and some perhaps a cruel--performance of the man himself. [9]
- Each, to Honora, was an inspiration. [9]
- That her uncle was a good man, for instance, had no such effect upon Honora, as the fact that Peter was a good man. [9]
- His spirits, as usual, were of the best, and from time to time Honora was aware of his glance. [9]
- I--I don't feel up to it," said Honora, desperately. [9]
- Not the old Union Depot, with its wooden sheds, where Honora had gone so often to see the Hanburys off, that grimy gateway to the fairer regions of the earth. [9]
- For Honora, all unconsciously, wrote literature. [9]
- One evening, when Uncle Tom had gone to play piquet with Mr. Isham, who was ill, Honora further surprised her aunt by exclaiming: "How can you talk of things other people have and not want them, Aunt Mary? [9]
- Then," he added, turning to Honora, "I should have both my sons settled on the place. [9]
- Every time they turned, this young woman stared at Honora amusedly. [9]
- If you don't turn up this evening, Honora, I'll entertain your guests. [9]
- Her eyes were troubled as she looked at Honora, whose head was thrown back. [9]
- Honora, bending over, took the face of the faithful old servant and kissed it. [9]
- It is far too late in this history to pretend that Honora was, by preference, an early riser, and therefore it must have been the excitement caused by her surroundings that made her bathe and dress with alacrity that morning. [9]
- Rainy Saturdays, all too brief, Honora had passed there, when the big dolls' house in the playroom became the scene of domestic dramas which Edith rehearsed after she went to bed, although Mary took them more calmly. [9]
- They had come to-day from many mysterious (and therefore delightful) places which Honora knew only by name, and some had driven the twenty-five odd miles from the bunting community of Banbury in coaches and even those new and marvellous importations--French automobiles. [9]
- In moderate obedience to this summons Honora arrived, on the evening in question, before the ornamental ironwork of Mrs. Dallam's front door at a few minutes after seven o'clock. [9]
- Honora was kind to these ladies. [9]
- Through the entrance to the restaurant Honora caught sight of the red glow of candles upon the white tables, and heard the hum of voices. [9]
- Sometimes Honora went to the corner with him, and he waved her good-by from the platform as he felt in his pocket for the nickel that was to pay his fare. [9]
- He sat next to Susan, who maintained her usual maidenly silence, but Honora, from time to time, and as though by accident, caught his eye. [9]
- Honora has but to shut her eyes to see it aflame with tulips at Eastertide. [9]
- Mrs. Holt, needless to say, was overjoyed: they were to have a meeting at her house in the near future which Honora must not fail to attend. [9]
- It is needless to say that Honora accepted these ministrations and that she found Susan's admiration an entirely natural sentiment. [9]
- Presently they came to Joshua's dairy farm, and Joshua himself was standing in the doorway of one of his immaculate barn Honora put her hand on Susan's arm. [9]
- Lily was kind to Honora, and gave her their addresses before they grew to be great and insolent and careless whether one patronized them or not. [9]
- And it was to Honora, after church was over and they were walking homeward together along the dusty road, that Mr. Spence remarked by way of a delicate compliment that "the morning had not been a total loss, after all! [9]
- Nay, it seemed to Honora that the very animals knew him, and offered themselves ingratiatingly to be stroked by one whom they recognized as friend. [9]
- It never occurred to Honora that had it not been for Peter those evenings would have been even less bearable than they were. [9]
- The verse appealed to Honora strangely; just as it had appealed to Ibbetson. [9]
- We are indebted to Honora for this view of her husband's mental processes. [9]
- And it was to him an enigma--when occasionally he allowed his thoughts to dwell upon such trivial matters--why Honora was not equally congenial with the wives. [9]
- And Honora remembered to have seen, in a shop on Fourth Avenue, just the sideboard for such a setting. [9]
- But Honora continued to go to the dancing class, where she treated Mr. Meeker with a hauteur that astonished him, amused Virginia Hayden, and perplexed Cousin Eleanor. [9]
- Her glance shifted to Chiltern, and it seemed to Honora that she started a little. [9]
- Uncle Tom, relegated to a corner, pretended to read his newspaper, while Honora flitted from Peter's knees to his, or sat cross-legged on the hearth-rug investigating a bottomless stocking. [9]
- There is not time, alas, to linger over Anne Rory or the new histories which she whispered to Aunt Mary when Honora was out of the room. [9]
- It was some time before her husband responded to the call; and then he explained that if Honora didn't object, he was going to a man's dinner in a private room. [9]
- It was half-past three when they drove up the avenue and deposited Mrs. Kame and Cecil Grainger at the long front of the Faunce house: and Brent, who had been driving, relinquished the wheel to the chauffeur and joined Honora in the tonneau. [9]
- You act as though you wanted Honora and Howard to stay in Rivington. [9]
- In anticipation of this hour there was a blood bay for Honora, which Chiltern had bought in New York. [9]
- Having attended to these important details, Honora drove to the restaurant in her hansom cab, the blood coursing pleasantly in her veins. [9]
- Whether or not there was approval in the lady's delft-blue eye, Honora could not have said. [9]
- But here and there amongst the diners, Honora observed, were elderly people who smiled discreetly as they glanced in their direction--friends, perhaps, of Mrs. Holt. [9]
- Honora went behind them to witness the operation, which was not devoid of excitement. [9]
- Honora had told them so, and colour was lent to her assertions by the fact that their mother, when they repeated this to her, only smiled sadly, and brushed her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
- And Honora, following their glances, beheld the two ladies, in the negligee referred to above, with their elbows on the railing of the upper hall and their faces between their hands, engaged in a lively exchange of compliments with the gentlemen. [9]
- Honora found in the very atmosphere a certain magic which she did not try to define, but to the enjoyment of which she abandoned herself; and in those first days after her arrival she took a sheer delight in driving about the island. [9]
- In the intervals the talk wandered into regions unfamiliar to Honora, and she had a sense that her own horizon was being enlarged. [9]
- He had beaten the sweat-stained horse (temporarily--such was the impression Honora received), but she knew that he would like to have killed it for its opposition. [9]
- Honora sat in the straight-backed seat of the smaller train with parted lips and beating heart, gazing now and again at the pearly mists rising from the little river valley they were climbing. [9]
- Honora paused in the spring twilight to contemplate the house, which stood out incongruously from its sombre, brownstone brothers and sisters with noisy basement kitchens. [9]
- On the whole, the situation delighted Honora, who bit her lip to refrain from smiling at M. de Toqueville. [9]
- It was not the Sidney Dallam of the counting-room who told that story, and Honora listened with strange sensations which she did not attempt to define. [9]
- He who made the sear, Honora reflected, must have been a strong man. [9]
- They wandered through the quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities, searching out the tumbledown French houses; and Honora was never tired of imagining the romances and tragedies which must have taken place in them. [9]
- Her costume for the prospective excursion in the automobile had cost Honora some thought that morning. [9]
- Honora looked at the plush rocking-chair, the yellow-and-red carpet, the inevitable ice-water on the marble-topped table, and the picture of a lady the shape of a liqueur bottle playing tennis in the late eighties, and sighed. [9]
- Honora intimated that the period of his probation had not yet expired. [9]
- Mrs. Hayden represented the outposts in the days of Richardson and Davenport--had Honora but known it. [9]
- Honora had seen the light of anger in his blue eye--a divine ray. [9]
- Honora put down the letter, and sat staring at the cheque in her hand. [9]
- Honora paused on the lawn before the house, and looked back at him over her shoulder. [9]
- Honora knew that the intense improbability of the truth would save them, and it did. [9]
- If George rode the huge rocking-horse, he was Paul Revere, or some equally historic figure, and sometimes, to Edith's terror, he was compelled to assume the role of Bluebeard, when Honora submitted to decapitation with a fortitude amounting to stoicism. [9]
- And she contemplated the Honora of other days--of the flesh, as though she were now the spirit departed from that body; sorrowfully, poignantly regretful of the earthly motives, of the tarnished ideals by which it had been animated and led to destruction. [9]
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