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Example sentences for "honorable"

Lexicographically close words:
honneur; honneurs; honnour; honny; honor; honorables; honorablie; honorably; honorarium; honorary
  1. To the chancellor was, as usual, entrusted the honorable and responsible duty of laying before the representatives of the three orders the reasons of their present convocation.

  2. But his reasoning had no weight with a man of high resolve and inflexible principle, who could see no honorable course but openly meeting and overthrowing error.

  3. An honorable place was held by the ecclesiastics of the "Sainte Chapelle," originally built by Louis the Ninth, in the precincts of his own palace, for the reception of the marvellous relics he brought home from Holy Land.

  4. Hereupon Condé begged the king to esteem him hereafter a faithful and honorable man, and entreated his Majesty to lend no ear to the authors of such calumnies, but to regard them as common enemies of the crown and of the public peace.

  5. His family was of limited means, but of honorable extraction.

  6. On the morrow, which was Sunday, Beza preached in the prince's apartments before a large and honorable audience.

  7. I am privileged, because I am known to be honorable and trustworthy, and because I have a distinguished record in the service; so they don't hobble me nor tie me to stakes or shut me tight in stables, but let me wander around to suit myself.

  8. It is much more distinguished and honorable to be a reptile than a dog, don't you think, Soldier?

  9. We soon, however, became convinced that we had to do with honorable people, and who, singular as they looked to us in their oriental garb, took all possible pains to show their gratitude for our timely succor.

  10. A public office is a public trust" and affords an opportunity to render a useful and honorable service, but holding public office is not essential to the happiness and prosperity of any of us.

  11. A little later the Oak Hill district was quietly quashed and its honorable board of education went into "innocuous desuetude.

  12. In October 1912, he was granted by the Presbytery, an honorable retirement from the performance of the public duties required of the active ministry.

  13. Although their names may not be familiarly known among the churches, none have deserved more honorable mention than these faithful servants of the Master, who selected this particular field of effort for their life work.

  14. As I visit the older towns where these men have lived and won honorable distinction I have inquired for their children.

  15. To recount a portion of those battles and sieges would be to give a partial history to the neglect of others, equally deserving of honorable mention.

  16. Mr. Cattell was an honorable and honest man, and really desired that these matters should be satisfactorily arranged, but this was not the purpose of the Governor as manifested by his conduct, and he determined to have his own way.

  17. At the next term of court a new grand jury was impaneled, the foreman of which was a personal friend of the treasurer and a very honorable gentleman.

  18. But if a man loves a woman," said Helen, "why shouldn't he be glad to give her honorable marriage?

  19. And Helen was free--and could be honorable throughout!

  20. Now that you think about it you can't but see it's the decent, the honorable thing to do.

  21. The grizzlies had prepared him an honorable reception, and as he approached his daughter's home, he found them standing in thousands in two files, on either side of the door, with their clubs under their arms.

  22. At the expiration of the term he received the honorable distinction of having his nose perforated.

  23. She had no very prominent or honorable place in the minds of the people and was much more closely allied to the Roman Cloacina than to the Greek Aphrodite.

  24. For this he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, but the sentence was appealed against and annulled on a technical ground, and the honorable member was ultimately acquitted by the Cour d'Assizes of Angers.

  25. Mr. James Mill early made honorable amends for his previous doubts as to the possibility of Miss Martineau's success.

  26. He gained her affection (I use the word advisedly) by entirely honorable roads--by the delight which she took in observing his scientific knowledge, his originality of thought and his elevated tone of mind.

  27. But I must be allowed to do so in my own way--without any other restraints than those which I think it becoming to an honorable man to impose on himself.

  28. The prisoner waiting our verdict, gentlemen, is the Honorable Roderick Westerfield, younger brother of the present Lord Le Basque.

  29. The first of these gentlemen--the Right Honorable Joseph Norman--had been a member of Parliament, and had taken office under Government.

  30. They have played their parts meantime with honorable consistency--by maintaining an hermetical silence on questions of the war.

  31. He sits down and writes a little book, dedicated to all the great men of Europe, and entitled, The Discovery of the Brotherhood of the Honorable Order of the Holy Cross.

  32. We find among them officers in our German armies, agriculturists, merchants in Germany, and at least in two other European countries, partners in honorable firms.

  33. What promised to be a great and honorable Church, like the Free Church of Scotland, with which it now stands connected, carried with it much of the prejudice and bigotry of the land.

  34. He has proved himself a very honorable and gallant soldier on all occasions.

  35. He was again sent out in another and very good vessel with one hundred and fifty picked soldiers, under the leadership of Captain Cueva, a very honorable and brave soldier.

  36. The family was a good one and enjoyed an honorable position in the society of the Danish capital.

  37. Dick didn't care whether she despised Ellery or not--he didn't care enough to speak an honorable word of explanation.

  38. He is one of our best type of business men, and the candidate that the new reform element, in which your husband is playing an honorable part, is hoping to set up for mayor.

  39. Maturin was the second son, who was also a Baptist minister, of strict morality and honorable career, but who died at the early age of thirty-five years.

  40. More fortunate than many whose works have enriched the world, we have seen that Mr. Ballou lived long enough to enjoy an honorable fame.

  41. How small and frail and boyish looked the Honorable Giles to-day!

  42. The Honorable Giles, the manly if lachrymose midshipman, sprang forward to his station as rapidly as his small but sturdy legs could carry him.

  43. Here, men, don't crowd this way on the honorable committee of Congress!

  44. The Honorable Giles turned pale, then flushed violently and burst into unmanly tears.

  45. The little figure of the Honorable Giles looked pathetic indeed.

  46. The way lies open now for our honorable confession.

  47. He knew that Dick Swinton stood in his path; but, if he could drag his rival down, it was surely fair and honorable to do so before Dora could commit herself to any sentimental relationship with a criminal.

  48. There was not a father or a mother in his congregation who would not turn from him in horror, if it were known that he shielded the guilty beneath the pall of the honorable dead.

  49. On the platform with the minister sat the deacons of the First Congregational Church--and the Honorable Peter Wentworth.

  50. The remainder of that meeting was not conspicuous for deep spirituality, and after the benediction the Honorable Peter Wentworth found himself surrounded by an excited crowd of grateful church members.

  51. The First Congregational Church was deeply indebted to the Honorable Peter Wentworth, and would fain express its gratitude.

  52. The Honorable Peter Wentworth was the only man who by even the politest fiction could be called rich.

  53. In addition to the grateful acknowledgments of "those who were ready to perish," Mrs. Fry won an unusual meed of honorable esteem from the noble and great.

  54. We could not have a higher object than the adoption of any proper and honorable means which would lessen the chance of armed conflicts.

  55. When the story of our times is written it will be seen that there are few walks of life in which some one of these has not borne an honorable part.

  56. But there seemed to be no honorable way of checking the progress of the rapidly growing Finnish nationality.

  57. The men "saw red," they were drunk with lust for honorable revenge, from which nothing but death could stop them.

  58. You deal square and honorable with the boss, standing up to what you've done like you was a trooper at your gun, and he'll deal square and honorable with you.

  59. I am willing to attribute to honorable gentlemen the best of motives; I am sure they do not wish to involve this country in a war--and, God knows, I deprecate its horrors as much as any man.

  60. Can gravity itself refrain itself from laughter at the figure which my honorable colleague would wish us to make on the theater of the world?

  61. Shall she attempt to restrain the career of a nation, which my honorable colleague represents to have been irresistible, and which he declares has appalled the British lion and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria?

  62. Does he meet me with his sword like an honorable gentleman?

  63. They are large trout flies and won honorable retirement by catching three small-mouthed black bass at one and the same time.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honorable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    honorable discharge; honorable friend; honorable gentlemen; honorable peace