Berryer, the lieutenant of police, was a man of much firmness, but honourable and kindly disposed.
The reclamation of Epirus is perhaps the most honourable achievement of the Greek national revival, but it is by no means an isolated phenomenon.
An affecting trait, honourable alike to soldier and to chief.
Only I shouldn't consider it honourable to jilt Prosy, even for the sake of remaining single.
He kisses the grave, sad young face that is yearning to hear more, but is too honourable to break its compact.
She was far too good and honourable a woman to care a particle about truthfulness as a means to an easy conscience; she did not mind the least how much hers suffered if it was necessary to the happiness of others that it should do so.
An honourable and fine spirit would not have been influenced by any such oppression.
To tell you that I consider my profession an honourable one would be superfluous, for you can't imagine I should have taken it up had I thought otherwise.
The family of Hope, honourable in Scottish history to the present day, is of considerable antiquity.
Liberality consists in giving willingly, from an honourable motive, to proper persons, in proper quantities, and at proper times; each individual case being measured by correct reason.
Such (he says) is the judgment of the truly excellent man; which must be taken as conclusive respecting the happiness, as well as the honourable pre-eminence of the best mental exercises.
Hence he had concluded that it consisted in acting according to virtue; for the honourable and good are chosen for their own sake.
To the Right Honourable William Wyndham, Secretary at War.
It is a common remark in the country that very many of the sons of half-pay officers were both idle and dissolute; but I am happy to say there are many honourable exceptions.
This Society, so honourable in its nature, and which we hope will prove most important in its consequences, was first suggested by the Honourable Mr. Selby, and was received with acclamation.
Beverley Robinson, of New York, was the son of the Honourable John Robinson, of Virginia, who was President of that colony on the retirement of Governor Gooch.
You have not made it clear what was Colonel Moran's motive in murdering the Honourable Ronald Adair?
Now, you remember the sudden end of the engagement between the Honourable Miss Miles and Colonel Dorking?
The man that the whole force has been seeking in vain--Colonel Sebastian Moran, who shot the Honourable Ronald Adair with an expanding bullet from an air-gun through the open window of the second-floor front of No.
The man's career is that of an honourable soldier.
The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
She fled from America to avoid you, and she married an honourable gentleman in England.
We want to know, Mr. Gilchrist, how you, an honourable man, ever came to commit such an action as that of yesterday?
To learn to play the piano properly demands such an amount of time and toil that I do not see how we can possibly include it in the educational scheme of the honourablecitizens of the coming world state.
There are many occasions of local importance when an honourable figure-head is needed.
In the really popular branches of artistic work every honourable success draws a parasitic swarm of imitators like fish round bread in a pool.
He had gained much credit by his proconsulship in Asia, and had since by an honourable leisure wiped out the blot which stained the activity of his former years.
He was placed over the library which Caesar built for public use, an appointment equally complimentary to Varro and honourable to Caesar.
But once his prepossessions are known and discounted, the student of his works can give a freer attention to the countervailing facts, which Tacitus is too honourable to hide.
Very many of them have obtained their wealth byhonourable commerce, which the nobles were too proud to practise, and the rewards of which they yet could not see reaped without envy and scorn.
Cicero pays him the compliment of honourable mention in the Brutus, [105] praising his parts and lamenting his early death.
It is primarily and throughout a means of making money, and indeed the only strictly honourable one.
The Greeks declare that the beautiful (to kalon) is good; Cicero declares that the honourable (honestum) alone is good.
To allow this inactivity was most liberal on the emperor's part, to have the courage to accept it was equally honourable to Silius.
She had evaded answering, just as Virginia had evaded asking, the question which both knew had passed unuttered between them--was Abby to be trusted to keep inviolate the ancient unwritten pledge of honourable womanhood?
Mr. Farnol has been responsible for yet two other stories, The Money Moon and The Honourable Mr. Tawnish, but nothing has he written quite in the lines of The Chronicles of the Imp.
The Honourable Frank Selwyn, an' he lives at Selwyn Park--the next house to ours.
So it chanced that when he returned home he ventured to contract a formal betrothal with an honourable maiden of noble lineage, against the explicit desire of her distinguished parents.
The honourable member of the Nuremberg Council must be well acquainted with the girl, for his eyes had scarcely met hers ere a strange smile flitted over his grave, manly face.
Take his name, and you will always bear an honourable index to your mutual discovery and recognition.
Enough for most of them to be good and honourable citizens.
Such forms of acquaintance are not uncommon among honourable men who have already formed habits and pursuits of their own, which they cannot surrender even to friendship.
She is honourable and will keep her word; and so now that matter is settled.
Well, let us think of the past no more; but if we can restore a gifted man, whose youth promised much, to anhonourable independence and a healthful mind, let us do so.
That the Queen hath given no rewards to any of the captains or officers, but only to my Lord Sandwich; and that was a bag of gold, which was no honourable present, of about L1400 sterling.
But a reaction had taken place in the opinions of many, and a violent dispute arose upon a motion which seemed to have been made by some honourable member with a view to robbery.
Our flag-bearer so exulted in his honourable office, and bore the colours aloft with so much of pomp and dignity, that I found it exceedingly hard to keep a grave countenance.
The General was lame by an honourable wound received at Borodino, and could not without some assistance get out of the boat; I, therefore, landed the first.
It caught the popular fancy at once, and after the lapse of more than fifty years still maintains an honourable position.
But the wretched look often more picturesque than their betters; and though all the world despise these poor Suridgees, their tawny skins and their grisly beards will gain them honourable standing in the foreground of a landscape.
I should not have listened to the idea from any one else; but you are such a sensible, kind, honourable fellow.
Still, as he is an honourableand right-minded man, I am convinced that he only requires to be persuaded I have a just claim on the boy, to give him up.
The natives give it the still more honourable title of "catch tiger," as they affirm that even that savage creature, who may unwarily leap into it, will find itself trapped in a way from which there is no escape.
But, gentlemen, I will place that honourable nobleman in the witness-box, to speak to the character of the prisoner.
Any one can conceive a thousand circumstances which might have produced that agitation, and which might have covered his hands and stained his coat with blood, but which the most honourable motives would prevent him from explaining.
From the clergyman of our parish," answered Rose, "the Honourable Mr. Fleming.
It was not indeed because he was Honourable as well as Reverend; but because few men were better calculated to win regard as well as esteem.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honourable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
