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Example sentences for "honors"

Lexicographically close words:
honoreth; honori; honorific; honoring; honoris; honos; honour; honourable; honourablie; honourably
  1. Returning early in July, she visited many old scenes and friends of her early life, received with honors from place to place.

  2. Resting now in the afternoon of life with comforts, honors and love surrounding her, Mrs. Horne must look back with satisfaction and gratitude upon her life.

  3. Elizabeth Fry's life was a living proof of the honors that a persistent, steady, self-denying course of doing good invariably wins in the long run.

  4. The royal honors of his name: "Jehovah reigns!

  5. For this our tongues thy love proclaim, And chant the honors of thy name.

  6. I'll sing the honors of thy name; And spread thy praise abroad.

  7. Yes, with a cheerful zeal, We haste to Zion's hill, And there our vows and honors pay.

  8. The God who reigns alone O'er earth, and sea, and sky, Let man with praises own, And sound his honors high.

  9. A universe with praise shall own The countless honors of his throne.

  10. Thus shall we best proclaim abroad The honors of our Saviour, God, When the salvation reigns within.

  11. Our tongues would all thy love proclaim, And chant the honors of thy name.

  12. He wants no pomp nor royal throne To raise his honors here; Content and pleased to live unknown, Till Christ, his life, appear.

  13. From these celestial springs Such streams of comfort flow, As no increase of riches brings, Nor honors can bestow.

  14. Breathe upon those who scorn our cause, Thy cause, O Lord, for thou hast blest; Show them he honors most thy laws Who loves his God and neighbor best.

  15. In her right hand she holds to view A length of happy days; Riches with splendid honors joined, Her left hand full displays.

  16. The changing wind, the flying cloud, Obey his mighty word; With songs and honors sounding loud, Praise ye the sovereign Lord.

  17. He declined the offices and honors that his countrymen offered him, and passed his life in retirement.

  18. Players and dancers had all honors and offices at their disposal; the city swarmed with informers, who made the rich their prey; every man feared his most intimate friend, and the only bond of friendship was to be an accomplice in crime.

  19. She then, in turn, surrounded by her ladies, opened her Court of Love, and the candidates for poetical honors entered with their harps and contended for the prize in extempore verses called tensons.

  20. The literary men are numerous; they pursue their studies till they are entitled to the honors of the colleges; afterwards they devote themselves to copying and illuminating manuscripts.

  21. He was raised to the highest honors and offices in the empire by Theodoric, but finally, through the artifices of enemies who envied his reputation, he lost the favor of his patron, was imprisoned, and at length beheaded.

  22. The magnificent volume containing the poem of Tussuf and Zuleika in the public library at Oxford affords a proof of the honors accorded to poetical composition.

  23. To remove the social distance between him and his fiancee he was loaded down with honors and dignities.

  24. Theodosius left her her royal honors and abundant means for her station, so that she could not only have a moderate establishment at Jerusalem, but could also adorn the city with charitable institutions.

  25. Aurelian succeeds in winning political honors in spite of the hostility of Typhos and his wife, much to the disgust of the latter, who saw her intrigues for social laurels defeated.

  26. Sophia was deprived of all imperial honors and reduced to a modest station, and the care of her person was committed to a faithful guard who should frustrate any further attempts on her part to play a part in the game of imperial politics.

  27. The honors of an abbess were found to be a not altogether unsatisfactory substitute for the undesired or the unattainable glories of the world.

  28. Marchesina soon received the honors conferred in courts on the recognized mistress of the sovereign, and was permitted to wear the dress reserved for members of the imperial family.

  29. And these were the honors that were paid Izates by the king of the Parthians.

  30. The Honors Which The Jews Received From The Romans And Athenians.

  31. And this shall suffice us to have spoken as to the honors that were paid by the Romans and the people of Athens to Hyrcanus.

  32. That ambassadors be also chosen out of all the Athenians, who shall carry this decree to him, and desire him to accept of the honors we do him, and to endeavor always to be doing some good to our city.

  33. Joseph was now grown up to thirty years of age, and enjoyed great honors from the king, who called him Psothom Phanech, out of regard to his prodigious degree of wisdom; for that name denotes the revealer of secrets.

  34. Charlie Wheeler was buried with military honors from the Congregational church to-day.

  35. I do not understand law, nor do I know how to lay my case before you as I ought; for want of which I humbly beg of your honors that my request may not be rejected.

  36. It only remained to bury Cloudy Sky, with all the honors due to a medicine man.

  37. As an inducement to be foremost in battle, the first four that touch the dead body of an enemy, share the honors that are paid to the one who slew the foe and took the scalp.

  38. The wife of the hero lives to realize her wretchedness; the honors paid by his countrymen are a poor recompense for the loss of his love and protection.

  39. I beg your Honors to read the testimony of Mr. Clarke in the light of the anecdote of the pickerel and the roach.

  40. He has just been decorated and awarded high honors by the French Government.

  41. Now your Honors both know how a pickerel loves a red roach, and I have no doubt you will remember that he is a fish of a very low forehead and an unlimited appetite.

  42. I immediately recognized the wondrous region in which Captain Nemo did the honors that day.

  43. But as this Title honors me and mine, So your dislikes, to whom I would be pleasing, Doth cloud my ioyes with danger, and with sorrow King.

  44. The honors conferred by the San Francisco and Atlanta Expositions are but added proofs that the selection was a proper one.

  45. Since the World's Fair at Chicago, two expositions of the industries of this country, the San Francisco Midwinter Fair and the Atlanta Exposition, have added to the honors and reputation of the cut glass of the Libbey Company.

  46. I am pleased to say he will undoubtedly live to receive the honors that a grateful France is ready to shower on his head.

  47. Why, not only would Andre have witnesses when he signed the document, but high honors awaited him after he had recovered from his wounds.

  48. Josh too was equally satisfied, though he should always deeply regret that it had not fallen to his lot to strike one blow for the cause, and that all the honors had gone to Rod.

  49. He received more honors and rewards from his sovereign than is recorded of any favorite and minister of modern times.

  50. Honors were showered upon him from every quarter.

  51. It also conferred rewards and honors on his principal generals; for his successful operations in Spain were no slight cause of the overthrow of Napoleon.

  52. He also restored Bohemia to its electoral rights, rewarded the elector palatine with the honors and territories wrested from his family by the Thirty Years' War, and confirmed the house of Hanover in the possession of the ninth electorate.

  53. He doesn't like it because I haven't won any honors yet.

  54. She 'bore her blushing honors thick upon her.

  55. Occasionally some old cadets would suggest that they "turn out the guard," form ranks, and render the honors of war when Major-General Frazier and his escort marched through the company street.

  56. Though he win the highest honors in the highest corps in the army of the United States, not for many a year will that young gentleman be again the centre of such absorbed and universal regard.

  57. Mrs. Harrington and Elsie scarcely heeded her, but fluttered from room to room with the two guests, doing the honors with great spirit, and urging them to extend their visit some days.

  58. Much of it unquestionably is his by right, and there is no intent here to deprive him of any of the high honors he achieved.

  59. Mr. Spalding contends that Base Ball has lent no small assistance to the athletes of the United States in helping them to win premier honors at the Olympic Games since their reintroduction.

  60. For the position of leading batsman the "Hall of Fame" honors Zimmerman, the powerful batter of the Chicago club.

  61. Master Hopkins careth naught for such honors as these have to bestow.

  62. True it is that his honors have fallen upon me, and that his place knoweth him no more; and yet it is his spirit, his counsel, and his ensample that rules my poor actions at every turn.

  63. I'm not greedy, Will, and I'll leave those honors for thee.

  64. Wherefore these honors and the noise of voices, and the music which plays so loudly?

  65. To whom do you render honors worthy of a prince or of one who has performed a great deed?

  66. Oh, there is no pressing haste, my host; take your place again, and do the honors over this beautiful dessert.

  67. There were assembled all the Epicureans who so lately at Vaux did the honors of the mansion of wit and money of M.

  68. This was one of the greatest honors of the royal table.

  69. Whether he thought himself neglected in not being invested with the government of the country he had discovered, or felt unwilling that another should share in the honors of future discoveries, cannot now be determined.

  70. The Cacique, or Indian Governor, enjoys the honors of an alferez real.

  71. The Persian courtiers threw themselves upon the Macedonian spears in their eagerness to reach the king and win the honors which they knew would be bestowed upon the fortunate man who should slay him.

  72. After laying claim to the honors that his father had forced the states of Hellas to bestow upon him, he had marched into the unknown wilderness of the north with his army and there had perished.


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