Use honour in a sentence
Sentences starting with honour
- Honour me by walking in. [12]
- Honour and respect the handsome, hot-blooded youth that, nevertheless, he allowed himself to be diverted from work only a short time and soon resumed it with ardent zeal, at first in superabundance, and then amid fresh need and privation. [10]
- Honour among--among gentlemen, Sir,' returned the other, who seemed to have been very near giving an awkward termination to the sentence. [12]
- Honour and peace be upon your Excellency! [11]
- Honour to Myrtilus and his art, but he trusted this noble festal assemblage would pardon the unintentional deception, and aid his prayer for recovery. [10]
- Honour among rogues. [11]
Sentences ending with honour
- He means murder, y'r honour. [9]
- Is that grateful, your honour? [11]
- He forgot his words as he looked into her eyes: they were lighted as with all the candles of heaven in his honour. [9]
- The travelling party which Barop accompanied were very proud of the honour. [10]
- Charley was wondering whether, after all, she would have the courage to keep her word, whether spiritual terror would surmount the moral attitude of honour. [11]
- To admit this, whenever it happened, was a point of honour. [10]
- One night there was a dance in our honour. [9]
- Philip had been touched in that nerve called military honour. [11]
- Is it fair to your honour? [11]
- Among the Crusaders this fearless hero, whom the pepper-bags here jeer at as a 'Turkey gobbler,' would have been sure of every honour. [10]
Short sentences using honour
- I would upon my honour. [12]
- I wasn't, 'pon honour! [11]
- Bien, it is an honour. [11]
- Thou hast honour. [11]
- Listen, your honour. [11]
- Do it honour. [10]
- The honour! [10]
- Honour? [11]
- Honour! [10]
Sentences containing honour two or more times
- His only honour was the honour of the game. [11]
- The honour done to Madelinette was an honour done to Pontiac, and Pontiac had never felt itself so important. [11]
- Thus he confronted the impossibility of satisfying a demand of honour, and this terrible thought induced him to declare war against everything which honour had hitherto enjoined, and with it upon its guardians. [10]
- It was a resentment whose origin was not a mere personal wrong to him, but the betrayal of all that invaded his honour and the honour of his country. [11]
- His vanity was no less than his impecuniosity, and this was the third time in one day he had been defeated in his efforts to confer an honour, and exact a price beyond all reason for that honour. [11]
- And for this I honour him," added he, "and Charles honours him, and so must all Englishmen honour him when they come to their senses. [9]
- All the past four years trooped by, with their thousand incidents magnified in the sharp, throbbing light of her mind, and at last she knew and saw clearly what was before her, what trials, what duty, and what honour demanded--her honour. [11]
More example sentences with the word honour in them
- You have raised your voice against it, and I respect and honour and thank you for it, the more because you have done it without resorting to sensation, and apparently with no thought of yourself. [9]
- I know how your Queen receives you; how your honour is as stable as your fief. [11]
- They are aware, your honour, that he and you knew each other in Ireland, and they think you are hard on him. [11]
- I tell you, your honour, it means the way out--that's what it means. [11]
- I wonder--" "No, your honour need not wonder. [11]
- And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
- We again offer your Highness our warmest felicitations for the honour that has been conferred on you. [5]
- Suppose I told you that Austen Vane was the soul of honour, that he saw your side and presented it as ably as you have presented it? [9]
- And I give you my honour, mon cher Courtenay, that I lost no time in getting back to Arlington Street, and called Dorothy down to tell her. [9]
- I would say, 'You know me, Monsieur; I shall deem it an honour to know you. [14]
- He explained in writing, and was very explicit: 'I declare upon my word of honour that I did not say the words attributed to me. [5]
- At length Philip wounded his opponent slightly in the left breast, and the seconds came forward to declare that honour was satisfied. [11]
- If Mr. Carvel would do him the honour of calling at his lodging, over Mackie's Italian Warehouse in Piccadilly, at four o'clock, he would take great pleasure in introducing him at Brooks's Club. [9]
- The best plan would be for Barbara to write to the young knight, informing him of the honour in store for him. [10]
- I did not wonder then, in the heat of my youth, that he should have accepted my honour as security. [9]
- No prophet is without honour save in his own country. [9]
- It is one with the generations of noblesse and honour and virtue. [11]
- He was struck with her conventional delicacy and honour on one side, and the limitation of her ideas on the other. [11]
- I think it will be more agreeable to Sarah's feelings, when she comes to hear from me of the honour you have done her, if she learns it was in liquor rather cooler than the last, Sir. [12]
- But the king's wife, seeing, came and spoke to the king and the others, crying out for the honour of her dead son; so that in a moment of anger they all cried out for death. [11]
- There are reasons why he does not come, as your honour kens, knowing the history of Erris Boyne. [11]
- Shorter," said Honora, whose surprise had given place to a very natural resentment, since she had not the honour of knowing Mrs. Grainger. [9]
- Truth was, Doltaire, who had no sordid feeling in him, loathed alike the cupidity of Bigot and the incompetency of the Governor, and respected Montcalm for his honour, and reproached him for his rashness. [11]
- My Lord March, who did me the honour to lay one hundred pounds upon my skill, insisted that I should make one of a party to the famous amphitheatre near Lambeth. [9]
- The railroads of which I have the honour to be president pay a heavy tag in this and other States. [9]
- Your Highness knows well what honour claims of me. [11]
- The Comtesse Chantavoine was in her place of honour beside the Attorney-General--but Prince Philip and his flag-lieutenant came not. [11]
- Death with honour was an advantage to him; death with disaster a boon; death with scandal was a godsend. [11]
- Then a title was a title to those born lower, and the young man plainly had a vast honour for a coronet. [9]
- A feather bed was a sign of social position; it was as much the dais to his honour as is the woolsack to the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords. [11]
- I'd heed his warning, your honour, or it may injure your reputation as a ruler. [11]
- At Staufferhof Baron von Stauff, formerly a man worthy of all honour, had opened his chapel of St. Ann to all the citizens to permit them to participate in the Lutheran idolatry. [10]
- Several Asiatic princes vied with each other in the desire to honour Mark Antony by a magnificent funeral, but Octavianus had allowed Cleopatra to provide the most superb obsequies. [10]
- You will honour us by accepting a tardy justice--without a price," he added, in a low tone. [11]
- Give 'the woman' up for the honour of the Master of the Hounds? [11]
- She heard her uncle, the magistrate, speak of her father's unfortunate deed, and tell the Council how the name of Herr Ernst's daughters, who were held in such honour, had become innocently, through evil gossip, the talk of the people. [10]
- It was in truth no small honour to become a duchess. [9]
- Does your honour travel often without a suite? [11]
- He is a traitor who spurns the King's honour and defies it. [11]
- Our General trusts to your honour, and you to ours, Monsieur le General. [11]
- My glance wandered to the pews which held the committees from various organizations, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Bar Association, which had come to do honour to my father. [9]
- The project is to purchase, at a high price, the spot which the city needs for her adornment, and to honour and please the Queen. [10]
- As he knelt to pray before he entered the pulpit, he heard the tinkling of the little bell of honour at the knee of Luc, as Junie and Parpon helped him from the church. [11]
- I came only to plead the cause which, if it give death, gives honour too. [11]
- To force her to marry Chartersea you made her believe that your precious honour was in danger. [9]
- I wish you to know that I am fully aware and grateful for the honour you did me, and that I realize it is not always easy for you to speak so--to any one. [9]
- He, Proclus, was to have the high honour of including the royal lady among his guests solely on Hermon's account, and his refusal would be an insult to the Queen. [10]
- It is charming to have such a guard of honour, but I am wondering--wondering--eh, monsieur l'avocat, is it legal? [11]
- The thought ought to have restrained him from such base conduct; but the idea that he was avenging the wrong inflicted upon their father's honour, and thus upon theirs, urged him further and further. [10]
- You were about to do me the honour of a communication? [9]
- They were ready to do all that might become a Catholic intent to avenge the profaned honour of the Church and the faith. [11]
- Soft-tongued irony leaped to Charley's lips: "Have I, then, the honour of including Monsieur among my customers? [11]
- It is not to be inferred that the House lacks a sense of honour because it lacks delicacy. [5]
- I never knew till, in his honour, he told me, coming here for that purpose. [11]
- It was as though she was looking down from a great height upon a poor creature who did not know the first rudiments of personal honour, the fine elemental customs of life. [11]
- His heart dictated this, but honour, too, commanded him to restore to the maiden and her sister the fair fame which his passionate impetuosity had injured. [10]
- Lenne undoubtedly appreciated this honour, yet I remember the doleful tone in which he sometimes greeted my mother with, "Called to court again! [10]
- Do a great thing now; help it to be done for your own honour, for England's honour--for a good man's sake, for your country's sake. [11]
- Debts of honour they paid but tardily, if at all. [9]
- They have paid their way and their debts in honour, and it is in the bond with all the Barbilles of the past that I do as they do. [11]
- An honour from the young English Queen--that would mate with Madelinette's fame. [11]
- Now, full of the warmest confidence, he asked whether she would consent to rule as mistress of his home, the honour and ornament of his ancient name? [10]
- When they returned, the verdict was given: "Not guilty, your Honour! [11]
- He drove home the truth with bare unvarnished power--the wrong to Guida, the wrong to the Countess, the wrong to the Dukedom of Bercy, to that honour which should belong to those in high estate. [11]
- The King is the source of all estate and honour, and I am loyal to the King. [11]
- The landing was the signal for a great display on the part of the people and the militia--yes, the militia shared in the applause, your honour! [11]
- She had saved the Queen's life upon May Day, and on the evening of that day the Queen had sent for her, had made such high and tender acknowledgment of her debt as would seem to justify for her perpetual honour. [11]
- Fortunately, some of the most prominent Ratisbon citizens now crowded around Maurice to thank him for the honour which he had done the city. [10]
- Speak freely of the man whom the King delighteth to honour. [11]
- I am for the man who was the first settler on the St. Lawrence and this section of the continent--his history, his tradition, his honour and fame are in the history books of the world. [11]
- To spare him the last turn of the wheel of torture, to give him the one bare honour left him yet a little while, I have given up my work of life to comfort him. [11]
- Your blue, Eva, the hue of these flowers, will remain mine whether I wear it in honour of the Blessed Virgin, or--if the world does not release me--in yours. [10]
- She did him the honour to prefer him to any other man--at least, he thought so. [11]
- Then there was the honour of the town of Lebanon. [11]
- And to have the honour of it filched from him by a soldier of Manfaloot--no, Mahommed Seti should be crucified! [11]
- Quite apart from the honour of his nature, prison had deepened in him the hatred of injustice. [11]
- He shall have the honour of a flag of truce. [11]
- I have had the honour and pleasure, Sir, of being concerned against you in some little testamentary matters. [12]
- It had been the home of Count Gunther von Schwarzburg, who paid with his life for the honour of wearing the German imperial crown a few short months. [10]
- But everything in the good old days was not better than at the present time, and that you, whom I honour as the most faithful of husbands, may not misunderstand me, Lienhard: To bend and to succumb are two different things. [10]
- Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below. [10]
- The rulers of the country took the old Alexandrian Archias into their confidence and knew how to honour him by many a distinction. [10]
- On the twenty-fifth the city had decided to give a May festival under the lindens in honour of the duke. [10]
- She had left the building in a vortex of conflicting emotions, with the call of duty and of honour ringing through a thousand other voices of temptation and desire, the inner pleadings for a little happiness while yet she was young. [11]
- The spectacle of the brilliant honour bestowed upon Duke Ottavio Farnese had sowed in her heart the seeds which had now ripened to resolution. [10]
- I must decline the baronetcy, your honour. [11]
- You planned with the artist's mind; and brought forth what's to your honour and credit-- and the piling up of your bank balance. [11]
- This told her that when he returned from a certain cruise he would visit her again, for he was such an enemy to her country that he was keen to win what did it most honour. [11]
- He shall see that to be a Seigneur is not an empty honour. [11]
- It was flattering that they should honour her simple home by their visits, but she knew that Caesarion came without his tutor's knowledge, and perceived, by the expression of his eyes, what drew him to her daughter. [10]
- It was not that they brightened on seeing this man before her; they had been brighter, burningly bright, when she left the hospital, where, since it had been built, she had been the one visitor of authority--Jansen had given her that honour. [11]
- A whimsical question, that shocked her, irresistibly presented itself: was it not Prosperity that she had promised to love, honour, and obey? [9]
- Could he think that she would make advances to tempt his honour, and risk his good opinion and her own? [9]
- Fitch's function was that of the moderate counsellor and bellwether for new members, hence nothing could have been more fitting than the choice of that gentleman for the honour of moving, on the morrow, that Bill No. [9]
- I honour you--and that is sincere too. [5]
- The funeral train that followed the young Italian, who had appeared among them like a fleeting vision of Paradise, would have done honour to the wife of the Chief Justice. [10]
- The fellow answered that Captain Clapsaddle's honour was killing Mr. Allen, and went out; and came back presently to say that some tall gentleman had the captain by the neck, and that Mr. Allen was picking his way down the ice on the steps outside. [9]
- It is simply that a debt of honour must be satisfied; it concerns my poor dead brother. [11]
- Every seat was taken, and gentlemen waited their turn in the marble-flagged rotunda who had not the honour of being known to Mr. Giles, the head waiter. [9]
- But to be taken there by Charles Fox was an honour falling to few. [9]
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