O highly honoured Clouds, for now they cover all things.
Come then, ye highly honoured Clouds, for a display to this man.
Truly if the sword in its day is honoured at the expense of the pen, the pen in the long run repays itself with sweeping interest.
More than one of his poems are believed to have originated in conversations between the poet and the noble women who honoured themselves and him by taking an interest in his career.
Never was king more honoured or king's son more loved than were these two as they passed with cheery word and dauntless bearing among their loyal and devoted soldiers.
The prince himself had honoured the feast, and bidden every man to fill his cup and drink deep and long.
Ibn KhaldAºn lived with statesmen and kings: he was an ambassador to the court of Pedro of Castile, and an honouredguest of the mighty Tamerlane.
He honoured and respected the clergy, but at the same time he let them see that he would not permit them to interfere in political affairs.
You are a foolish woman, and I have honoured you as a queen, as a ruler!
I honoured his evident grief by a respectful silence, and he withdrew again.
It is, we believe, first mentioned in the great festivities when the City brought poor Anne Boleyn, in 1533, from Greenwich to the Tower, and on the second day after conducted her through the chief streets and honoured her with shows.
Near this fortunate doctor, honoured by kings, lived Sir John Finett, a wit and a song-writer, of Italian extraction.
Honoured guests sat by them; the beggar was placed on the threshold, with his mess of meat.
He might live long, happy, and honoured at home with the father whom he so tenderly loves and pities, but he sets forth to Ilios, knowing surely that there he must inevitably perish in the flower of his youth.
Boeotian heroes, one of them wounded, the other slain by Hector, as still honoured in Boeotia.
As Spenser observed in Ireland, and as the Brehon laws declare, the minstrel was highly honoured and trusted; the minstrel of Agamemnon is charged, during the war, with the care of Clytemnestra.
Yet there are those who love the old names as they love the traditions for which they stand, and to them the glacier will forever bear the time-honoured title of these Indians who have long since disappeared from its solitudes.
When the next number was called, those who had been honoured with invitations and gifts returned the compliment.
Thus in the autumn of the year I was providentially led into association with this beloved and honoured servant of GOD.
At the invitation of my beloved and honoured friend, Mr. George Pearse (then of the Stock Exchange), I went to spend a few days with him in Brighton.
I had felt it a duty to comply with the earnest wish of my beloved andhonoured mother, and for her sake to procure a swimming-belt.
And hear me too, that with incessant hand Honoured thee richly from my former store!
Say, was it for his benefits to them They hid his corse, and honoured him so highly, Who came to set on fire their pillared shrines, With all the riches of their offerings, And to make nothing of their land and laws?
Therefore above all else I honoured thee, And therefore Creon thought me criminal, And bold in wickedness, O brother mine!
Why, hath not Creon, in the burial-rite, Of our two brethren honoured one, and wrought On one foul wrong?
Let dark Hades take me off To lie in death with mine age honoured sire!
Lament, nor praying breath I 2 Will raise thy sire, our honoured chief, From that dim multitudinous gulf of death.
The honoured mother of that corse, thy queen, Is dead, and bleeding with a new-given wound.
Tis not well To mourn 'mongst those with whom the honoured dead Hath left the heirloom of his benison.
Then, when Mac reached England, the Sultan sent further messages and inquiries concerning the trooper whom he had honoured at his table at the Abdin Palace.
The honoured guests would take the State gharries to their hotel?
I sprang alertly to meet wit and gossip, my mind ran nimbly here and there, I filled the role of honoured guest.
I met your honoured father, whose life I had saved on the Ohio some years before, and he worked for my comfort in my bondage.
It is to the absence of rhyme also that Émilia owes the favour with which these gentlemen have honoured it.
There is not a single citizen among this great and glorious people who cannot but feel that it is his honoured duty to prevent an outrage that will be a blot upon our Revolution.
The purest and mightiest storm of fury against the yoke of the oppressor that ever honoured an enslaved nation burst out in the Protestant North.
A mother whose daughter had been honoured with the east end would naturally feel agreeable sympathy for the mother of those who wrestled modestly with window-sills.
Was she not the honoured young worker, to whom had been entrusted the decoration of the east end?
Marx honoured him as a fatherly friend "who welcomes every progressive movement with the enthusiasm and sober judgment of a lover of truth, and who is a living proof that Idealism is no imagination, but the truth.
Social divisions acquire a new significance: classes and sections which were formerly despised gain in social and economic power; classes which were formerly honoured decline.
Princes invite him to their tables; the sovereign himself is honoured in the friendship of the artist and man of genius, who will bestow an immortality on his reign.
Even in his grand careless household, with its large retinue and superb hospitality, there was something worthy of a representative of that time-honoured portion of our true nobility--the untitled gentlemen of the land.
Nay, more, it was at the suggestion of Lord John Russell himself, that Lord Derby was sent for, and honoured with her Majesty's commands.
Nor did he presume to jest at the very few and brief sentences he drew from Helen; but rather listened to them with deference, and invariably honoured them with approval.
The house from which is born your lamentation, Through just disdain that death among you brought And put an end unto your joyous life, Was honoured in itself and its companions.
And, as I hope for heaven, I swear to you Your honoured family in naught abates The glory of the purse and of the sword.
Last of all must be mentioned a curious relic of the Emperor Frederick the Second, the prince whom of all others one would least expect to see honoured in the city of his foes.
In village after village in the valleys of the Nam-U and Mekong I found myself an honoured guest.
I think it is highly probable, Mary, that we shall be honoured with a visit from Mr. Sylvester to-day.
Mr. Bullen bent down his burly form and honoured the little canvas with a respectful scrutiny.
Chief Poet of Ireland, I am the Mayor of your own town Kinvara, And I am come to tell you that the news Of this great trouble with the King of Gort Has plunged us in deep sorrow—part for you, Our honoured townsman, part for our good town.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honoured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
