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Sentences ending with honourable

I know that the son of your father couldn't do anything that was not honourable. [9]
The end was sure, easy and honourable. [11]
In a rude state of civilisation the robbery of strangers is, indeed, generally considered as honourable. [1]
His eyes fell on the Honourable. [11]
At this stage in his career, he did not love the Honourable. [11]
In my schooldays I watched a mouse in a jar of oxygen do that;" said the Honourable. [11]
He seemed very human and understanding, --very honourable. [9]
It is not honourable. [11]
It might be foolish and feminine to be anxious, but did she not mean well, and was it not, therefore, honourable? [11]
What would you do, judge honourable? [11]

Short sentences using honourable

The Honourable Hilary sometimes smiled. [9]
A voice responded--the Honourable Hilary's. [9]
The Honourable watched him. [11]
The Honourable Hilary's here. [9]
The Honourable Hilary grunted. [9]
The Honourable Adam B. [9]

Sentences containing honourable two or more times

The Honourable Adam would not come; and the fact leaked out--through the Honourable Adam. [9]
By the street windows sat the Honourable Brush Bascom, sphinx-like, absorbing wisdom and clouds of cigar smoke which emanated from the Honourable Nat Billings. [9]
That seismograph of the Honourable Hilary's persisted in tracing only a slightly ragged line throughout the beautiful month of May, in which favourable season the campaign of the Honourable Adam B. [9]
These were signs, surely, which the wise might have read with profit: in the offices, for instance, of the Honourable Hilary Vane in Ripton Square, where seismic disturbances were registered; but the movement of the needle (to the Honourable Hilary's eye) was almost imperceptible. [9]
Curiously enough, the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher join Mr. Crewe in his complaint, and reiterate that it is an outrage that a man of such ability and deserving prominence should be among the submerged four hundred and seventy. [9]
The Honourable Giles Henderson was prepared to withdraw, and Hilary had come, by authority, to see if he would pay the Honourable Giles' campaign expenses. [9]
The Lords, said he, had plainly meant no insult to this honourable house, nor yet to the honourable members. [9]
It was impossible for the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher to have Mr. Crewe sitting between them and not conceive a strong affection for him. [9]
The Honourable Jacob Botcher arose, and filled the hall with extracts from the "Book of Arguments"--in which he had been coached overnight by the Honourable Hilary Vane. [9]
The Honourable Jacob Botcher (ten years' service) is equally fortunate; the Honourable Jake is a man of large presence, and a voice that sounds as if it came, oracularly, from the caverns of the earth. [9]

More example sentences with the word honourable in them

He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
He perceived that you were a man of ability, sir--" "And that was just the reason," said the Honourable Brush, "that he couldn't make you more useful just now. [9]
Sometimes I think you don't show it a great deal," the Honourable Hilary answered. [9]
My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. [11]
The Honourable Hilary would take one of the slips from the packet and give it to Mr. Bascom. [9]
That Mr. Billson would read a private paper was a thing which could not occur to me; he was an honourable man, and he would be above that. [5]
The wise caution with which the Emperor Rudolph avoided interfering with the rights of the Honourable Council afforded old Herr Berthold Vorchtel great satisfaction. [10]
Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]
The gallery shook with laughter, and honourable members with slips of paper in their hands were made as conspicuous as if they had been caught wearing dunces' caps. [9]
The Honourable Hilary, with his bag, was halfway to the door, when Mr. Flint crossed the room in three strides and seized him by the arm. [9]
But, on the whole, he was glad that this love affair had come to so honourable an end. [10]
Hunt; Baron Burrows, who farms out the post-office at Edmundton, leads Edmunds County; Earl Elisha Jane, consul at some hot place where he spends the inclement months drops the first ticket for Haines County, ostensibly solid for home-made virtue and the Honourable Giles. [9]
The Honourable Dave whispered to the judge, a tall, lank, cadaverous gentleman with iron-grey hair, who nodded. [9]
But when these were finally disposed of, Mr. Flint led the conversation back to the Honourable Humphrey Crewe, who stood harmless--to be sure--like a bull on the track which it might be unwise to run over. [9]
At last she went on, her face turned away from the great kindly blue eyes bent upon her, from the face flushed with honourable human sympathy. [11]
It is my weakness that I could not be, as a man, honourable to Jean Jacques Barbille. [11]
Her knees became weak, she looked around her dizzily, and beheld the triumphant professional smile of the Honourable Dave Beckwith. [9]
But like many weak men, the Honourable Adam had a stubborn streak, and a fatuous idea that opposition and indignation were signs of strength. [9]
Mr. Tooting, as we know, had abandoned the law office of the Honourable Hilary Vane and was now engaged in travelling over the State, apparently in search of health. [9]
Now when I was your age..." I knew his history by heart, a common one in this country, although he made an honourable name instead of a dishonourable one. [9]
The financial part was written by the Governor-general himself--the Honourable Hilary Vane. [9]
The Honourable Dave was unmarried; and, he told Honora, not likely to become so. [9]
The Honourable Adam was some time in picking out a convenient tree. [9]
The Honourable Council was obliged, willing or unwilling, to defray the necessary expense. [10]
The Honourable Hilary was likewise at work, equally quietly and unobtrusively. [9]
The Honourable Jacob was left behind scratching his head, and presently he sought a front seat in which to think, the back ones not giving him room enough. [9]
The other chair was for the Chevalier de la Darante, one of the oldest and best of our nobility, who pretends great roughness and barbarism, but is a kind and honourable gentleman, though odd. [11]
You see it was all four years ago, and Pedley--" But the Honourable paused. [11]
The Honourable Hilary was absorbed in his daily perusal of the Guardian. [9]
It was all very well (so said the first spokesman) to pluck a few feathers from a bird so bountifully endowed as the Honourable Adam, but were not two gentlemen who should be nameless carrying the joke a little too far? [9]
The Honourable Hilary Vane, whose face they study at dinner time, is not worried. [9]
The Honourable Hilary Vane in an apologetic mood! [9]
The Honourable Hilary Vane comes from one of the oldest Puritan families in the State, the Vanes of Camden Street--' Here's another. [9]
The Honourable Hilary Vane bore away from the residence of his emperor a great many memoranda in an envelope, and he must have sighed as he drove through the leafy roads for Mr. Hamilton Tooting, with his fertile mind and active body. [9]
The Honourable Hilary Vane and Mr. Flint should be informed of it at once. [9]
None of these upsetting rumours, however, were allowed by Mr. Bascom and other gentlemen close to the Honourable Adam B. [9]
Shon did not understand it, but he saw The Honourable smile, so with a gentle kind of contempt he went on singing: "And it's hey for the hedge, and it's hey for the wall! [11]
However much they two were blameworthy, they had been sincere, they had been honourable in their dishonour, they had been "falsely true. [11]
And--stranger still!--he had turned from these glimpses to the reports of the Honourable Brush Bascom and his associates with a distaste he had never felt before. [9]
The Honourable Hilary, trying in vain to suppress his agitation, rose to his feet. [9]
This time you trample under foot the fair name of an honourable man. [10]
The Honourable Hilary, towering above him, and with that grip on his arm, was a formidable person. [9]
If Mr. Hamilton Tooting were present, and recognized you, he would take great pleasure in pointing out the celebrities, and especially that table over which the Honourable Hilary Vane presided, with the pretty, red-checked waitress hovering around it. [9]
People who went too far with him were apt to be rebuked by a certain glassy quality in his eye, and this now caused the Honourable Jake to draw back perceptibly. [9]
I assumed indifference to the matter, laying the packet down upon my couch, and saying to him, "You will convey my thanks to Mademoiselle Duvarney for these books, whose chief value lies in the honourable housing they have had. [11]
When he's ready to talk business with me in behalf of the Honourable Giles Henderson, I guess he'll do so. [9]
He was about to speak, but the Honourable said: "That is only half the story--wait. [11]
And I propose to prove to you that, before the Honourable Adam B. [9]
One post ran to meet another, and one messenger ran to meet another; and it was even reported--though on doubtful authority--after the rally in his town the Honourable Jacob Botcher had made the remark that, under certain conditions, he might become a reformer. [9]
Gabord, you said to her once that I was an honourable man. [11]
Further words seemed to fail him, and he left the room somewhat awkwardly, followed by Mr. Manning; but the Honourable Hilary appeared to take no notice of this proceeding. [9]
The Honourable Hilary's tight lips trembled. [9]
As he drove through the silent forest roads on his way homeward that afternoon, the Honourable Hilary revolved the new and intensely disagreeable fact in his mind as to how he should treat a prodigal who had attempted manslaughter and was a fugitive from justice. [9]
He hath the throne's protection, he hath the crown's support, he shall be known and called by the honourable title of the King's Ward. [5]
I should have thought--" The Honourable interrupted: "To tell you that you are Sir Duke Lawless. [11]
I know that this statement will be received incredulously, and disputed by those who claim that laughter is a good thing; the honourable gentleman died from too much of a good thing. [9]
Whereas I--" At this point in Mr. Crewe's remarks the Honourable Jacob Botcher was seized by an appalling coughing fit which threatened to break his arm-chair, probably owing to the fact that he had swallowed something which he had in his mouth the wrong way. [9]
The son had this in common with the Honourable Hilary--he hated heroics; and the fact that the thing smacked of heroics was Austen's only deterrent. [9]
Another stir in the street--occasioned by the appearance of the Honourable Giles Henderson,--of the blameless life. [9]
In addition to the personal regard Mr. Pardriff professed to have for the Honourable Hilary, it maybe well to remember that Austen's father was, among other, things, chairman of the State Committee. [9]
He dwelt upon the personal character of His Excellency's antecedents, and praised their honourable services to the country. [11]
Within, they crossed the marble pavement, the Honourable Dave handed her into an elevator, and when it stopped she followed him as in a dream to an oak-panelled door marked with a legend she did not read. [9]
The face of the Honourable was set and tense. [11]
The abilities of the Honourable Tom Ferrol lay in a splendid plausibility, a spontaneous blarney. [11]
The Governor and the honourable members of his Council, forsooth! [9]
Mr. Flint took the Honourable Hilary's list, ran his eye over it, and whistled. [9]
No more could the Honourable Hilary well be likened to Pandora, for he only opened the box wide enough to allow one mischievous sprite to take wings--one mischievous sprite that was to prove a host. [9]
He looked at the Honourable Hilary more closely, however. [9]
Scarcely that, but the Honourable had made up his mind to cross the glacier and none sought to dissuade him from his choice; the more so, because there was something of danger in the business. [11]
In the meantime the Honourable Elisha Jane, spurred on by desperation and thoughts of a 'dolce far niente' gone forever; has sought and cornered Mr. Bascom. [9]
This gentleman was the Honourable Edward Doby of Hale, who, with the kind assistance of the other gentlemen above-named, was in this secluded spot making up a list of his committees, undisturbed by eager country members. [9]
And then there's the Honourable Asa Gray, who wants to represent the Northeastern some day in the United States Senate. [9]
The Honourable was the first to reach the point of vantage, and to look down upon the vast and wandering fissures, the frigid bulwarks, the great fortresses of ice, the ceaseless snows, the aisles of this mountain sanctuary through which Nature's splendid anthems rolled. [11]
Looking quickly from the fire to the face of the Honourable and back again earnestly, as if the full force of what was required came to him, he said: "We shall get the perspective better if we put the tale in the third person. [11]
At that time the distinguished physician had even succeeded in getting the Honourable Council to defray the cost of having the walls newly white washed and fresh clay stamped on the floor. [10]
What sightseeing by the country members and their wives who have come to attend the inauguration of the new governor, the Honourable Asa P. Gray! [9]
The members of the conference stared at the Honourable Hilary, who seemed to have forgotten their presence; for he had moved his chair to the window, and was gazing out over the roofs at the fast-fading red in the western sky. [9]
The man on the chair, his face lighted by a fanatic enthusiasm, is the Honourable Hamilton Tooting, coatless and collarless, leading the cheers that shake the building, that must have struck terror to the soul of Augustus P. Flint himself--fifty miles away. [9]
Burrowing continually amongst the bowels of the vessel, Mr. Tooting knew the weak timbers better than the Honourable Hilary Vanes who thought the ship as sound as the day Augustus Flint had launched her. [9]
The Honourable understood that, but he made clear to Shon's mind what toboganing is. [11]
So it chanced that when he returned home he ventured to contract a formal betrothal with an honourable maiden of noble lineage, against the explicit desire of her distinguished parents. [10]
Mr. Tooting discovers that the room is occupied by the Honourable Brush Bascom; Mr. Tooting learns with indignation that certain of these guests of Mr. Bascom's are delegates pledged to Mr. Crewe, whereupon he rushes back to the bridal suite to report to his chief. [9]
Be it known that the Honourable Adam was a man of substance in this world's goods. [9]
Translated, they meant that the Honourable Adam B. [9]
Be it known that Mr. Flint, with characteristic caution, had not confided even to the senator that the Honourable Hilary had had a stroke. [9]
At eight o'clock that morning the postman brought him a letter marked personal, the handwriting on which he recognized as belonging to the Honourable Hilary Vane. [9]
Ten minutes later that gentleman was engaged in a private conversation with his colleague, the Honourable Timothy Wading. [9]
By the strange telepathy which defies language, to the Honourable Hilary Vane, Governor of the Province, some such unacknowledged forebodings have likewise been communicated. [9]
It would have taken a medal at any European fair, and would have got an honourable mention even at Chicago if it had been saved up. [5]
The Honourable gaily suggested a song. [11]
He ruled them strictly until they had proved that Countess Cordula's wish had been fulfilled and, resembling their unfortunate father only in figure and beauty, strength and courage, they had grown into valiant, honourable knights. [10]
The Honourable Dave, standing very close to the judge and some distance from her, read in a low voice something that she could not catch--supposedly the petition. [9]
By day the slender little flame of honourable betrothed love flickers for him; by night it blazes more brightly for yonder Swiss scoundrel. [10]
The Honourable was sitting in the shadow, with his back to the new actor in the scene. [11]
The Honourable and Sir Duke have had their last words, and Sir Duke has said he will remember about the hunting traps. [11]
For the final settlement of this affair he begged the Honourable Council to appoint commissioners, whom he would willingly join. [10]
These were really secretive gentlemen, though most of them had a hail-fellow-well-met manner and a hearty greeting, but when they talked to the Honourable Hilary it was with doors shut, and even then they sat very close to his ear. [9]
The Honourable Adam screwed up his face and pulled his goatee thoughtfully. [9]
Then the Honourable rose, got his knapsack, and took out a small number of papers, which he handed to Sir Duke, saying, "By slow postal service to Sir Duke Lawless. [11]

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