It is a dishonour for us that our people are slaughtered in this wise," quoth Medb.
It would please me well shouldst thou beat him sorely,[1] for to mydishonour he comes to attack thee.
Then said the men of Erin, it would be no dishonour for Menn son of Salcholga to leave the camp and quarters, and that the hosts would go a day's journey back to the [W.
Ought I, in my anger, to keep the dishonour of my house to myself or make it public?
The dishonour is sure; my misery is made plain to me; and my pride in vain would hide it from me.
You dishonour the King and his office very much," said the Duke.
But pray, Sir, since you have gone thus far, now shew me whence this evil of cursing ariseth, and also what dishonour it bringeth to God; for I easily discern that it doth bring damnation to the soul.
Also I think that this foul Disease is that which Solomon intends, when he saith, (speaking of this unclean and beastly creature) A wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach shall not be turned away.
The {36c} dishonour that it bringeth to God, is this.
Cannot you take a kind view of a foolish business, and believe there has been only folly and no dishonour in the purpose that brought me here?
By this means, I have prevented the dishonour of having a fool of our house laughed at in all parts of Europe.
He says that its conquest is dishonour to Spain, not to us; in this I do not agree with him.
And he stirs not a hand to save our city from the dishonour of a second time being conquered by a foreign army.
If we are beaten the loss and the dishonour will be ours.
That he should bring dishonour upon his own relations is what we never thought the Colonel capable of doing, we esteemed him very highly.
The whole of this unfeeling composition is dictated by the same spirit, and written in much the same style, as the lines I have quoted; it reflects more dishonour on the satirist than on the subject of his abuse.
To detail the conclusion of this paper, about the dishonour of his being appointed pannel-painter to the King, never suffered to caricature any of the royal family, etc.
To the dishonour of our police, the savage custom of driving cattle through the streets, even at high noon, is still continued, though scarce a week passes without a consequent accident.
I say this is a singularly touching story, for it shows us a woman whose whole soul was imbued with zeal for the glory of God, and that woman was the wife of a man whose whole priestly career was one of dishonour to God.
Does it pain you above every other pain when you know of something which is to the dishonour of God and of His Church?
I must retire from the world, live an obscure life the whole remainder of my days, and the whole shameful adventure being divulged, will render me the common topic of table conversation, and entail dishonour and contempt upon my son.
Then the king and his men I prayed them, by what service I e'er had done, 405 They should loose me from stain of dishonour which I by his death had won, And the knight should live, as I sware him.
And I wot well for his dishonour many folk shall have suffered sore.
She has escaped dishonour at the hands of these pitiless brigands, and I am about to die myself.
Nor thou nor he are any sons of mine; My sons would never so dishonour me.
Not so, my lord; the gods of Rome forfend I should be author to dishonour you!
Not I, till I have sheath'd My rapier in his bosom, and withal Thrust those reproachful speeches down his throat That he hath breath'd in my dishonour here.
I'll trust by leisure him that mocks me once; Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons, Confederates all thus to dishonour me.
They could not believe, considering her beauty and public vocation as a priestess, that she could have escaped observation, and they had come to the conclusion that her preservation from dishonour was impossible.
I am a stranger to thee; but Alla threw me in thy path, when else, dishonour was before thee.
She is a Moorlee," he replied sulkily, "and has done dishonour to the Mother by living with Mussulmans in camp.
If he hears of an act of dishonour by a person of that nation, 'It is so like a Frenchman--they are all alike; there is no honour in them.
One day some one informed him that Poignan, a retired captain of dragoons and one of his friends, was by far too intimate with Madame La Fontaine, and that to avenge his dishonour he ought to fight a duel with him.
Her anger at my dishonour plainly teaches me how to act.
My dishonour is not at all proved by that portrait which frightened me so much.
The marquis was thinking that this would afford him an ample revenge, since he could easily bring dishonour on Martial, who had shown so little regard for the honour of others.
He knew that there were jailers who left no means untried to dishonour their prisoners before delivering them over to the executioner.
Was the dishonour Truly so deep That it must rob me of honour for aye?
Who will, let him despise, Unhurt by the dishonour And shame thus put upon her, Her heart doth o'er it rise.
The father, Mattathias, declared with a loud voice that he would permit no such dishonour to his God, and the first Jew who approached to offer incense, was by him struck down and slain.
The widow, glancing towards Nicholas, said to her daughter, with an air of unutterable contempt: "That coward there will dishonour us on the scaffold!
There is already too much dishonour on my name,--it must end.
I have come in time, at least, to save my name from public dishonour hereafter.
This was because of the increase of "the great sin of Gaming within this Jurisdiction, to the great dishonour of God, the corrupting of youth, and expending of much precious time and estate.
The family itself sunk into disgrace; a worthy punishment, as the Spanish writers declare, of them who dishonourand desert fair lady.
The King mildly remarked, that in promoting the marriages he had acted according to the request of the Infantes themselves, and he saw that much of the dishonour touched himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishonour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
