And in all seriousness they dreamed of the offices and honours that would be theirs, and actually disputed who among them would hold the highest rank.
All the rest of the disciples enjoyed the Master's honours as their own.
Why should they not assume their high position in the interval; why were the honours of the new era not already allotted?
As they were silent He went on to say: "You attached yourselves to Me in innocent trustfulness, like men who spread their cloaks at My feet, and paid Me the honours of the Messiah.
I was then in my thirtieth year, and was present when his body was buried with military honours in the Flemish burial ground, St. Catherine's.
It was to these circumstances I owed the honour of coming in contact with General Lamarque and of not being forgotten by the family at the time of rendering the last honours to the conqueror of Caprée.
When Sam took his honours degree at Oxford, Anne would relax; till then, she was a crusader.
And he was not only of Oxford, Peter's University, but brilliantly of Oxford, of Balliol, with academic honours thick upon him.
Isabel had all her father's courage, but she was more sensitive; and though she would have borne her honours well, was oppressed by the feeling that the weight was too much for her mother.
Miss Boncassen herself bore her honours well, seeming to regard the little change at table as though it was of no moment.
But when the honours and glory are new, and the tedium of the benches has not yet been experienced, then such an accident is felt to be a grievance.
Though as yet you are only the heir to the property and honours of our family, still, were you married, almost everything would be at your disposal.
But he did not think that he could write to his late partner any letter that would preserve those honours to him.
Let Silverbridge marry whom he might, he could not be other than heir to the honours of his family.
It might be a monarchy, if men existed fit to be kings; but they would have to give signs of their fitness and their honours would probably not be hereditary.
She has been led to punish her ministers for the services they render and her favourites for the honours they receive.
Piety drinks at the deep, elemental sources of power and order: it studies nature, honours the past, appropriates and continues its mission.
No Marie Antoinette will ever do thehonours in these halls again.
You must well secure Cat, or else your Honours will soon lose the man; the best way will be to send for him up to London, for he knows the whole Company, and hath been Morten’s servant two years.
And if I hear this is received, I will send your Honours the Places names where your Honours will intercep the Smuglers as they go to Market with their Goods, but it must be done by Soldiers, for they go stronger now than ever.
I shall not trouble your Honours with any more Letters if I do not hear from this, and I do assure your Honours what I now write is truth.
FROM the same principle also arises the prerogative of erecting and disposing of offices: for honours and offices are in their nature convertible and synonymous.
E'en I unsafe: the queen in doubt to wed, Or pay due honours to the nuptial bed.
That grateful Greece with streaming eyes might raise Historic marbles to record his praise; His praise, eternal on the faithful stone, Had with transmissive honours graced his son.
And when the autumn takes his annual round, The leafy honours scattering on the ground, Regardless of his years, abroad he lies, His bed the leaves, his canopy the skies.
Not so (exclaims the prince with decent grace) For me, this house shall find an humbler place: To usurp the honours due to silver hairs And reverend strangers modest youth forbears.
Incessant in the games your strength display, Contest, ye brave the honours of the day!
To pay whole honours to the shades of hell, We check'd our haste, by pious office bound, And laid our old companion in the ground.
Such honours as befit a prince to give; Sandals, a sword and robes, respect to prove, And safe to sail with ornaments of love.
But what to me avail my honours gone, Successful toils, and battles bravely won?
I am astonished that the negroes have not paid to this tree the same honours that the Druids did to the oak; for to them the baobab is perhaps the most valuable of vegetables.
After having paid Sidy Sellem all the customary honours due to a stranger, they caused to be set before him, at the usual hour, barley, meal, and milk.
On October 4, Edward conferred on Sir Aymer de Valence lands and official honours in the shires of Peebles and Selkirk; and, on October 7, he made him keeper of the castle and forest of Jedburgh.
Honours had fallen on him naturally, as by right of birth.
And before departing the Queen had maternally kissed Celia, whilst the King shook hands with Attilio--honours instinct with a charming good nature which made the members of both families quite radiant.
The Baron's lady weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, and was therefore a person of great consideration, and she did the honours of the house with a dignity that commanded still greater respect.
In 1730 the "honours of sepulture" were refused to Mademoiselle Lecouvreur (doubtless the Miss Monime of this passage).
I sometimes make my Parisian lovers languish for fifteen days, but I give myself to you the first night because one must do the honours of one's country to a young man from Westphalia.
Brady's Island honours the memory of an old-time trapper, who was brutally murdered by one of his partners in 1847.
Having conceived a dislike for him, he was not inclined to confer upon him the honours he had so fairly won.
After her barbarous murder the King ennobled all her family, males and females, in perpetuity; and they retained this privilege into the seventeenth century, when a parliamentary decree confined the honours to the males.
Honours best thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers!
Though Aristotle is said to have been extremely fond of his wife Pythais, and to have paid her divine honours after her death, there is no record, I believe, of her having amused herself with riding on her husband's back.
Footnote: It shows that Lelio knows not what he is about when he does the honours of the house to the master of the house himself, and forgets that as a stranger he ought to go in first.
All things are prized by price; to wealth all honours now are sure; Wealth buys the rich man friends; forlorn and friendless pines the poor.
The late Vladika received the honoursof sanctity after his death.
She was assigned a troop of royal bodyguards for escort, and when she travelled there was a never-ending train to follow her six-horse coach, and officers of State came to receive her with royal honours wherever she passed.
She shared the universal jealousy of which Louise de la Valliere was a victim, and coveted the honours and the splendour by which that unfortunate favourite was surrounded.
Cortes, indeed, has merited greater honours than all these Romans!
We put on black cloaks in mourning for him, and paid the last honoursto the remains of our departed friend, in conjunction with his sons and relations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
