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Example sentences for "honor bound"

  • In view of the nearness of the approach of the higher animals to the human level, no just and humane man can deny that those wild animals have certain rights which man is in honor bound to respect.

  • The members of a wild animal species are in honor bound not to rob one another, but with 25 per cent of the men of all civilized races, robbery, and the desire to get something for nothing, are ruling passions.

  • He dared not give vent to his bitter thoughts, and denounce the girl he was in honor bound to give his name and shield from all the world's remarks.

  • And now he was in honor bound to fulfill his part of the wager--marry Sally Pendleton, whom he was beginning to hate with a hatred that startled even himself.

  • In that moment, in the happiness of being near her, he forgot that he was in honor bound to another, and that other Sally Pendleton, whom he was so soon to lead to the altar to make his wife.

  • I am a gentleman," he said, "and am in honor bound to carry out this contract, if you can not be induced to release me.

  • To that decision the girl had unconsciously contributed by laying down conditions which, by a curious mental twist, the man felt in honor bound to meet.

  • She told me all along that she was going to marry Beekman, that she was in honor bound to do so, that duty and everything made it necessary.

  • In circumstances that you can scarcely have forgotten, you assured me that I was in honor bound to give my cousin, Miss Mayhew, a brother's care.

  • Stanton," laughed Van Berg, "you are in honor bound to devote yourself to those oppressed ladies.

  • But before we talk any more about it I feel myself in honor bound to tell you what has happened to me lately.

  • This much you are in honor bound to do in any case, and you have also given me your word that you will do it.

  • He couldn't talk French to Mrs. Ralston now; he was in honor bound not to.

  • He was in honor bound, because ordinarily he would have accepted with alacrity.

  • Bob wanted to be truthful; not to say too much or too little; only just as much as he was in honor bound to say.

  • He couldn't explain how he was bound to accept the invitation to come, on account of being in "honor bound" to that confounded commodore, et al.

  • That treatment, however, entails its dangers, unless an author remembers, at every moment, that in addressing a popular audience he is in honor bound to be far more careful than if he writes for his own professional colleagues only.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another while; bibulous paper; criminal court; for another; honor and; honor bound; honorable discharge; honorable friend; honorable peace; honorary consulate; honorary member; honorary secretary; infinite time; keep back; nervous fever; potato salad; purely mechanical; side with; still alive; thar warn; three hundred thousand more; tiny woman; union movement; what the; wild honey; young priest