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Example sentences for "great honor"

  • This earle Leofrike was a man of great honor, wise and discréet in all his dooings.

  • Wherefore we must conclude that the proper matter of magnanimity is great honor, and that a magnanimous man tends to such things as are deserving of honor.

  • Now, as honor is due to virtue, so great honor is due to a great deed of virtue.

  • For it is indeed a great honor to have here so noble and famous a knight as you!

  • This is great honor you do me to come into this quiet dale with my sister, for we do not often have with us travellers of such quality as you.

  • So he doth indeed do great honor for to visit us in this wise.

  • How I honor you, sire, for truly it is a great honor to be subdued and vanquished by such a king as Frederick the Second.

  • I heard," said Conrad, "and I do not think it bad tidings, but a great honor.

  • My occupancy of this new position lasted until the autumn of 1894, and there was one thing in it which I have always regarded as a great honor.

  • This speech, though spread through the State, could evidently do but little toward righting the wrong; but it brought to me what I shall always feel a great honor--a share in the abuse showered mainly on him.

  • For, in the course of the following summer, the Constitutional Convention of the State was to hold its session and its presidency was justly considered a great honor.

  • I felt it a great honor to be asked to act as colleague with such men as Chief Justice Cooley, Mr. Morrison, and others already upon that board, but I recognized my own incompetence to discharge the duties of such a position properly.

  • Pierrette, without further reasoning, was very sensible of what she likewise considered a great honor.

  • In the first place, he thought it a great honor to see his daughter the friend and companion of M.

  • Great honor do men of this sort pay to the blessed martyrs, who, as they think, are to be glorified by trumpery tapers, but to whom the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne, with all the brightness of His majesty gives light.

  • For the see is one thing, and those who preside in it something different; and an individual’s great honor is his own integrity.

  • Footnote 18: "Sire and my king, you confer a great honor on me, and I am very grateful.

  • Of course Dame Hansen could but assent when she was apprised of the professor's request, especially as it would be a great honor to her and hers to have a member of the Storthing at her table.

  • And for me, professor, it is a great honor.

  • Ah, well, Mister Sylvius, you can do us a great honor.

  • Now Mithridates, the king of Parthis, had Demetrius in great honor, till Demetrius ended his life by sickness.

  • There were now come, therefore, to this well seven sisters that were virgins, the daughters of Raguel, a priest, and one thought worthy by the people of the country of great honor.

  • It is no great honor, indeed, to surpass the splendor of a sun made out of paper.

  • They have told you that they will wed you to him, that the little Elector will esteem it a great honor to become the husband of a daughter of the King of Poland.

  • It is no great honor for a Prince to be overcome by a couple of glasses of wine, and to succumb as if he had been struck by a cannon ball.

  • It would be a great honor, but I cannot think it a greater one than that of having married a daughter of France.

  • That if it was he, he did me great honor.

  • Tirant replied: "Sire, I give you infinite thanks for doing me such a great honor, but I will accept it only if I can give the title in turn to Diafebus, my closest relative.

  • When they were on land they met all the officials and magistrates of the city who received them with great honor, and Tirant with great reverence.

  • The sultan replied: "Virtuous knight, we are grateful to His Majesty the emperor for the great honor he is doing us, because he is not treating or regarding us as prisoners, but as brothers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great advantage; great agitation; great alarm; great authority; great calm; great chief; great distances; great evil; great feare; great forest; great majority; great military; great monastery; great mortality; great nobleman; great noise; great passion; great prosperity; great prowess; great quantity; great revolution; great riches; great wrath; greater part; greater variety; honest work