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Example sentences for "great honour"

  • My house happened to be mighty clean, and did me great honour, and they mightily pleased with it.

  • But I hear of all hands he is confessed to have been a man of great honour, that did show it in this his going with the Duke, the most that ever any man did.

  • Breakfast was served, and as we were sipping our chocolate, he told me that I had most likely some good reasons to warrant my reserve, but that I was wrong not to trust him, the more so that the affair in question did me great honour.

  • Madame Zeroli This man, who, though he did not know me, put the utmost confidence in me, so far from thinking he was horrifying me by the confession of such wickedness, probably considered he was doing me a great honour.

  • You certainly do me a great honour, but I would rather beg your pardon, if that would prevent this troublesome affair from going any further.

  • Then the marquis sent to the Earl of Panik, who had married his sister, begging him to bring both his children home, openly and in great honour; but no one was to know whose children they were.

  • My dear Hooker, I am heartily glad that you have been offered the Presidentship of the British Association, for it is a great honour, and as you have so much work to do, I am equally glad that you have declined it.

  • The Copley, being open to all sciences and all the world, is reckoned a great honour; but excepting from several kind letters, such things make little difference to me.

  • Whatever be the nature of your review, I assure you I should feel it a GREAT honour to have my book thus preceded.

  • They are very clean and well dressed women, and they hold it in great honour to know how to please men.

  • It is certainly a great honour; but you will know better one of these days, when the gentleman in question admits you to a personal interview in another--and a hotter world.

  • The case was perplexing; for the parson held Susceptibility in great honour, despite her hypocritical tricks, and did not like to give her a slap in the face, which might frighten her away forever.

  • Men and women considered it a great honour to have their portraits in a romance; they felt sure then of going down to the remotest posterity, a fond belief to which posterity has already given the lie.

  • The Italian and French languages were held in great honour; both were taught at Oxford and Cambridge; the latter especially was of common use in England, and this peculiarity attracted the notice of foreigners.

  • Here Merlin saw young Launcelot, King Ban's son, and he told the queen that this same child should grow to be a man of great honour, so that all Christendom should speak of his prowess.

  • And they foresaw that Sir Galahad would come to great honour, and outdo them all in knightly courtesy.

  • All the others received him with great honour.

  • Thy noble harbour, which was so great honour to thee, is deprived of all the nobleness which was wont to come into it for thy sake.

  • In the evening the old bailiff of the town invited me and gave me a splendid meal, and did me great honour.

  • The goldsmiths came to me and showed me great honour.

  • Russell; than he who is now an ornament to the Bar, an honour to his University, and a great honour to this State and to the whole of this Commonwealth, Sir Samuel Griffith.

  • I, for my part, was now advanced to a position of great honour, not less indeed than that formerly held by Tambusa himself.

  • Yet I said: "Thou wouldst ever have lived in great honour, Nomshasa, and have been counted great among my wives.

  • Ah, said Sir Launcelot, comfort yourself, for it shall be unto us as a great honour, and much more than if we died in any other places, for of death we be sure.

  • And sithen he hath won with his own hands thirty knights that were men of great honour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great applause; great assistance; great business; great capital; great charge; great cities; great companie; great consideration; great crowd; great distinction; great expedition; great fear; great fleet; great magician; great mind; great nuisance; great painter; great people; great piece; great profusion; great talents; great town; great towns; greater degree; greater pleasure; land held