And yet you are bold enough to assert that he is an honest man!
You must know, Monsieur Fix, that my master is an honest man, and that, when he makes a wager, he tries to win it fairly!
Don't you see, the description which you have there has a singular resemblance to an honest man?
Passepartout; "you are convinced he is an honest man?
Your interest is the same as mine; for it is only in England that you will ascertain whether you are in the service of a criminal or an honest man.
By the time he reached home the young baron had decided on his course which was certainly that of an honest man.
The conscience of an honest man,' I said, 'is a better security than the Funds.
Yet nevertheless he would shew himself an honest man, and would pay as far as he was able; and if they were willing to come to terms, he would make a composition with them, (for he was not able to pay them all.
He was a laborious, honest man,--but hardly of calibre sufficient not to regret his own honesty in such an emergency as the present.
Ferdinand Lopez was not anhonest man or a good man.
If there is an honest man in England it is the Duke of Omnium, and when he says a thing he means it.
Tam Samson's Elegy An honest man's the noblest work of God--Pope.
Then Caius Fabricius came in embassy from the Romans to treat about the prisoners that were taken, one whom Cineas had reported to be a man of highest consideration among them as an honest man and a good soldier, but extremely poor.
I have good witness of this; therefore I beseech your majesty, do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
And, as an honest man also, I am equally bound to add that, not even with your reward in view, can I find it in my conscience to advise you to risk what you must risk if you see Miserrimus Dexter again.
And he takes that roundabout way of keeping you apart, instead of saying No to you plainly, like an honest man.
I will not sort you with the rest of my servants; for, to speak to you like an honest man, I am most dreadfully attended.
I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and your soldiership aside; and give me leave to tell you you in your throat, if you say I am any other than an honest man.
I am an honest man's wife, and, setting thy knight-hood aside, thou art a knave to call me so.
How can he be an honest man," said the baron, "when he has neither house nor land, which are the better part of a man?
Tis only a description, honest man, quoth Slop, there's not a word of truth in it.
He had as little skill, honest man, in the fragments, as he had in the whole pieces of antiquity.
After a series of attacks and repulses in a course of nine months on my uncle Toby's quarter, a most minute account of every particular of which shall be given in its proper place, my uncle Toby, honest man!
An honest man am I, and have wronged neither man nor maid; so trouble me not, good master, as I have never troubled thee.
And the blind man was the first to see him, for he said, "He is an honest man, brothers, and one of like craft to ourselves.
I haue seru'd your Worshippe truely sir, these eight yeares: and if I cannot once or twice in a Quarter beare out a knaue, against an honest man, I haue but a very litle credite with your Worshippe.
An honest man sir, is able to speake for himselfe, when a Knaue is not.
Marry (if thou wer't an honest man) thy selfe, & the mony too.
Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?
He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes.
As I am an honest man he lookes pale, art thou sicke, or angrie?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honest man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
