How To Use Honourable In A Sentence
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Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions.
The Sun
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Mr. Robert Jackson (Wantage) (Labour): Will my right honourable friend accept an invitation to visit the Rutherford Appleton laboratory in my constituency to see the new Diamond synchrotron, which is nearing completion there?
PRIME SINISTER'S QUESTIONS
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He is an honourable person respected and held in esteem by his colleagues.
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In all things, even till this instant, (being the utmost period of my life) I have evermore found my Fathers love most effectuall to me; but now it appeareth farre greater, then at any time heretofore: and therefore from my mouth, thou must deliver him the latest thankes that ever I shall give him, for sending me such an honourable present.
The Decameron
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Would the Honourable Member agree that ...?
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The treatments were top notch, but the food also deserves an honourable mention.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was dishonourable to’ — ‘Peace, young man,’ said Herries, more calmly than I might have expected; ‘the word dishonour must not be mentioned as in conjunction with my name.
Redgauntlet
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And film crews following honourable Members around!
Times, Sunday Times
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Such was the heroicall liberality, and exceeding great clemencie of those most honourable
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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I don't give plugs as a rule, but I make an honourable exception for the annual Saints & Sinners meeting at Hamilton on Wednesday.
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Well, then," returned the ruffian, "to put you out o 'suspense, as the topsman remarked to poor Tom Sheppard, afore he turned him off, I'm come to make you an honourable proposal o' marriage.
Jack Sheppard A Romance
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I take on board what my honourable friend and the right honourable gentleman say.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of an honourable retirement, Louis was swallowed up by the sharks circling the boxing business, and gradually pulled into the netherworld of drugs, drink, violence and the mob.
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And so he has done the honourable thing and admitted US election defeat.
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The opposite of honourable antagonism between men is honourable alliance, typically affirmed in the image and name of the brother.
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‘Not only were you guilty of the offence of which you were convicted, but you were also in my view guilty of dishonourable conduct,’ he said.
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Honourable friends, I remember a discourse sometime made unto me, concerning the Countrey of Persia, and a kind of custome there observed, not to be misliked in mine opinion.
The Decameron
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However profoundly the Honourable Member for Eatanswill might resent it, the issue of expenses and allowances for MPs and Peers is not going to go away.
Archive 2008-01-20
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Then they brought an ewer and basin of gold, and he washed his right hand and abode in the gladdest of life and the most honourable.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Bert's well aware that the use of mind-expanding drugs has a long and honourable tradition in the search for what's really around us.
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This, by which the gods are divine, must be the oldest God of them all: and our own soul is of that same Ideal nature, so that to consider it, purified, freed from all accruement, is to recognise in ourselves that same value which we have found soul to be, honourable above all that is bodily.
The Six Enneads.
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In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign: a chief undulated, ARGENT: thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister all proper; and for his crest, on
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
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In 2003, the Group President Saree Tangsirisaree had this photo taken with Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Imigration, the Honourable Judy Sgro at a dinner party.
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And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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And those members of the body which we think to be less honourable, on these we bestow greater honour; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty’.
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He is a dignified man, an honourable man.
The Sun
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He saw Anglicans, with honourable exceptions, as lazy pluralists.
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I have the honour to inform you that the Honourable Company's steamer ‘Nemesis,’ under my command, was obliged to part company with the fleet, being light, and consequently very leewardly.
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These are words such as no honourable cavaliero can abide. '
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
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MAN is termed honourable; his character is exonerated from the stigma which calumny attached to it; and his courage rises in estimation, in proportion as it exemplifies his revenge.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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For France there were two honourable exceptions.
Times, Sunday Times
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In many ways the Norway fiasco was an "honourable" defeat.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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While he was thus dangled in a state of suspension, a German trooper was transiently smit with the charms of his mother, who listened to his honourable addresses, and once more received the silken bonds of matrimony; the ceremony having been performed as usual at the drum-head.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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How dishonourable and reprehensible, and I am very surprised that you would deal with such a person as this man is evolving to be.
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The personal explanation given today will not distance the honourable member from that.
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Then let's see how many honourable members we have.
The Sun
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Then let's see how many honourable members we have.
The Sun
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Despite honourable exceptions, the ubiquitous dramatised biography has probably been the most accident-prone arts genre.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the Conservative Party's honourable decision to put this matter to the arbitrament of the British people by way of referendum.
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The leader of the trade union said he believed Mr Smith had done the honourable thing by resigning.
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Honourable members don't do anything dishonourable, but if they don't know the rules properly, then they could end up breaking them inadvertently.
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This accusationof bribery is a vile smear on an honourable citizen.
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With honourable exceptions, pounding the streets has been replaced by pounding the keyboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Historically, public service was the honourable vocation of the nobility and gentry, whose younger sons went into the army, the Church or the law.
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And film crews following honourable Members around!
Times, Sunday Times
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I went home with this girl once and her father asked, ‘Are your intentions honourable or dishonourable?’
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Some even felt that in such a situation, the only honourable course would be for the government to call an election to re-establish a mandate for a change in course.
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Although the smart winner was far too good that day, Lisdante ran an honourable race to lead home the remainder.
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They told the 66-year-old that the honourable course of action would be to resign.
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The coquette Lady Betty Modish is led to accept the suit of the honourable Lord Morelove (contrasted with the boastful and immoral Lord Foppington) by a plot to excite her jealousy, followed by reproaches from Sir Charles.
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Under the seal of confession he had been intrusted with a secret to which in his conversations with me he could make only indirect allusions, to bring me to understand that my pertinacity was a crime, and that the only honourable course was to yield.
Mauprat
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For the meaner the condition of each judge is, the greater will be the severity of judgment with which he will seek to efface the idea of his meanness; and he will strive rather to appear worthy of being classed in the honourable decuries, than to have deservedly ranked in a disreputable one.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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Whether he was capable of outgeneralling Alexander Farnese or no, will be better seen, perhaps, in subsequent chapters; but there is no doubt that he was reasonable enough in thinking, at that juncture, that a hard campaign rather than a "merchant's brokerage" was required to obtain an honourable peace.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c
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And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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They urged her to do the honourable thing and resign.
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The film has been craftily re-edited and re-marketed into a love story that shows the Japanese as honourable soldiers.
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She should do the honourable thing and resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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One speaker justified Southern secession by urgent considerations of necessity and safety; another scouted the idea of coercing a seceding State; to a third, peaceful separation, though painful and humiliating, seemed the only safe and honourable way.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
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The respectable part of the Spanish nation, and more especially the honourable and toilworn peasantry, loathed and execrated both factions.
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I believe he was an honourable man, dedicated to the people and his union.
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Would the persons who free-selected land know whether they were living under the blessings of the honourable gentleman's government or under the Czar of Russia.
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Same goes for thoughts, if those thoughts are disagreeable to me, I would not agree with them regardless of how honourable you are or how many others are willing to vouchsafe for you.
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Do thou, O most holy one, with thy honourable supplications both shelter and preserve, and unto the enemies -- as fearful and unsubduable shew those that make a festival of thy (name of the event), that we may call unto thy Son: O
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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The Honourable Mnguni will indicate the problem with zero-rating all basic food stuffs.
Speech by Koena Arthur Moloto during debate on the Treasury (including SARS and Statistics SA) budget vote
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Luke Fox, being ice-bound and in peril, writes, “God thinks upon our imprisonment within a supersedeas;” but he was a good and honourable man as wall as euphuist.
The North-West Passage
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It is still casting a shadow over the whole perception of the council - the honourable thing would have been for him to resign.
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He was an honourable man who loved his job and did his best for the British people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roberto Luongo was the no-brainer choice made by the fans, but there have been several terrific netminding performances in the West this season Chris Osgood and Manny Legace get honourable mentions.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Daring speculations fail; the struggle in unnatural competition with men of large capital, or dishonourable dealings, wears out at last the overtasked frame — life is spent in a whirl — death summons them, and finds them unprepared.
The Englishwoman in America
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It is absolutely out of order to suggest that an honourable member of this House is committing treason.
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Having thrown water bottles at each other in the most alien conduct of the House many wondered if there was any tolerance at all, or if in fact they had elected dishonourable people to make laws for the country.
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Exactly how open does an honourable member have to be?
Times, Sunday Times
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The integrity of the author is, of course, a prerequisite for publication in any honourable journal.
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Why, Sir, a morceau like this, and from an honourable man, let him call himself contagionist or what he may, is more precious at this moment than Persian turkois or
Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
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By this perverseness of integrity he was driven out a commoner of nature, excluded from the regular modes of profit and prosperity, and reduced to pick up a livelihood uncertain and fortuitous; but it must be remembered that he kept his name unsullied, and never suffered himself to be reduced, like too many of the same sect, to mean arts and dishonourable shifts.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
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The first couple of Harry Potters are honourable contributions to the repertory of school-stories of an old fashioned kind, with the added frisson of knowing that the world beyond Hogwarts contains a great deal of unpleasantness.
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[The dishonourable flight of the Spanish nauy; and the prudent aduice of the L. Admirall.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Despite honourable exceptions, the ubiquitous dramatised biography has probably been the most accident-prone arts genre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Till his conversion he had led the ordinary life of the young man of good birth at that time; he was somewhat vain of his appearance, he had wenched and gambled; but at least on one occasion he had shown rare magnanimity and he had always been honourable, loyal, generous and brave.
The Summing Up
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'I dare say, my dear,' resumed the father, 'you will not do what we call thieving; but as I know there are many naughty boys in all schools, I am afraid they will teach you to commit dishonourable actions, and to tell you there is no harm in them, and that they are signs of cleverness and spirit, and qualifications very necessary for every boy to possess.'
Life and Perambulations of a Mouse
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In many ways the Norway fiasco was an "honourable" defeat.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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My father was an honourable man.
Times, Sunday Times
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What does this honourable person mean by "a tempest that outrides the wind"?
"Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students
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He knocked me out but it was an honourable defeat.
The Sun
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I'm sure my right honourable friend had no real intention of comparing me to Hitler.
The Sun
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Playing bumble-puppy with Minnie Beebe, niece to the rector, and aged thirteen -- an ancient and most honourable game, which consists in striking tennis-balls high into the air, so that they fall over the net and immoderately bounce; some hit Mrs. Honeychurch; others are lost.
A Room with a View
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We have them, and don't care, freckles is honourable.
The Second Chance
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Nelson Mandela must occasionally wonder if his real birthplace is not actually somewhere in west central Scotland as the postman brings the puzzled old freedom fighter yet another sackful of certificates, baubles and doctorates from right honourable and worshipful baillies, provosts and presiding officers.
All hail the Robert Burns of our day | Kevin McKenna
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An honourable and dignified man.
The Sun
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As honourable people, the panel members have correctly chosen to re-examine the evidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know my rose-coloured glass optimism keeps me somewhat naïve, but I honestly do believe that people are good, trustworthy and honourable, and I see expressions of gratitude all the time, everywhere I look, more often than not.
Beverley Golden: A Little Gratitude for Servers, Please and Thank You
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These are honourable motives for getting involved in the political process.
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Moral dishonourable, harbor evil intentions, did not lead a qualification.
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He is a dignified man, an honourable man.
The Sun
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a nonjuror, are these remarkable words: "It must be remembered that he kept his name unsullied, and never suffered himself to be reduced, like too many of the same sect to mean arts and dishonourable shifts.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
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Fifteen years on, and the honourable member is a chancellor presiding over dwindling dole queues and a booming economy.
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Out on the well-tramped school-yard the boys and girls were playing "shinny," which is an old and honourable game, father or uncle of hockey.
The Second Chance
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The lady all unready, alackaday!" put in the Honourable Isabel, from behind a fan to hide imaginary blushes.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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The opposite of honourable antagonism between men is honourable alliance, typically affirmed in the image and name of the brother.
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When he, like a loyall and most honourable man, sharpely reprehended her fond and idle love: And when shee would have embraced him about the necke to have kissed him; he repulsed her roughly from him, protesting upon his honourable reputation, that rather then hee would so wrong his
The Decameron
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That is very disobliging of the honourable Gentleman, who was being kind to me earlier.
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As the office of referendary was a very honourable one, it came to be conferred frequently as a merely honorary title, so that the number of the referendaries was unduly increased; and Sixtus V was constrained, in 1586, to limit the referendaries of the Signatura of Justice to 100, and those of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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It would be dishonest and dishonourable to pretend otherwise.
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I often wonder, if the honourable gentleman was Speaker, whether he would then be able to confront some of the difficulties of his own questions and requests.
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The one reliable prediction you can make about any group of human beings is that one or two will have a proclivity to cut corners, accept a bribe or be ready to pursue a dishonourable means to achieve their end.
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I. ii.313 (17,3) Thy honourable metal may be wrought/From what it is dispos'd] The best _metal_ or _temper_ may be worked into qualities contrary to its original constitution.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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What honourable love and respect I found in the company of those Gentlemen and their Wives, during our voyage backe to Cyprus, the historie would be overtedious in reporting, neither is it much materiall to our purpose, because your demaund is to another end.
The Decameron
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_An alteration of honour_, is an _alteration_ of an _honourable state_ to a state of disgrace.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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But before a Scotchman, myself would prefar the poorest spalpeen -- barring it be Phil, the buckeen -- I ax pardon (_curtsying_), if a buckeen's the more honourable.
Tales and Novels — Volume 08
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Does this impudent, dishonourable journalist think he is the equal of Tolstoy, physically, intellectually, artistically, or morally?
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They told the 66-year-old that the honourable course of action would be to resign.
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This is permissible I suppose, but dishonourable, and remember, they did this after a two-month delay.
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I believe he was an honourable man, dedicated to the people and his union.
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It is also a remarkably assured debut, and a reminder that the Bush Theatre's honourable legacy of spotting plays with real zing and commercial potential remains intact.
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I'm sure my right honourable friend had no real intention of comparing me to Hitler.
The Sun
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When he joins a gang of bandits, he's forced to prove his intentions are honourable.
The Sun
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She is concerned that in the competitive world of fundraising, charities driven by honourable motives feel under pressure to raise money as soon as a disaster strikes, in what she calls a "scramble for donor dollars".
BBC News - Home
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An honourable and dignified man.
The Sun
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Many of the bigger sites claim to vet members' profiles, but there is often little to stop those with dishonourable or even criminal intentions from lying about themselves.
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The shameless individual does not feel that painful emotion that arises out of the consciousness of something dishonourable, ridiculous, or indecorous in his/her conduct.
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Lord Chancellor, and increased in acerbity as he described what he called the altered mind of his honourable and learned friend the
The Prime Minister
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The media, she adds, irresponsibly sensationalize instances of purported professional misconduct but seldom discuss the things which lawyers do which are honourable, helpful and integral to society.
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Kelly, a whistleblower who the government would naturally have despised, was elevated to the role of a honourable man whom Gilligan had supposedly ill-used to further his nefarious anti-government agenda.
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The soldier received a dishonourable discharge for a disciplinary offence.
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So why don't they do the honourable thing and resign their posts and let the citizens run the city according to the wishes of the citizens?
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Many of the bigger sites claim to vet members' profiles, but there is often little to stop those with dishonourable or even criminal intentions from lying about themselves.
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BRIGHTON The seaside town deserves an honourable mention for its solid demand and good value when compared with London.
Times, Sunday Times
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Company, Limited, (thereinafter called the Company) of the one part, and the Right Honourable Edward John Lord Stanley of Alderley, Her Majesty's
The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
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But a handful deserve honourable mentions.
Times, Sunday Times
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For France there were two honourable exceptions.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think it's important to the achievements of our subsidised theatre that it shouldn't be dishonourable to fail.
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He was an honourable man who loved his job and did his best for the British people.
Times, Sunday Times
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If he now goes back on that promise, that would be as dishonourable a traducing of his promise as that of Mr. Brown, perhaps the more so given the swiftness with which he has resiled from it.
Cameron's 27 Day Promise
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_ Pray tell that civil, honourable, honest Gentleman, that if he has any more such Sums to fool away, they shall be received like the last; Ha, ha, ha, ha, chous'd, quotha!
The Busie Body
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You played a very dishonest and dishonourable part in that matter.
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He had early resolved that the boy should follow his own honourable profession, and Peter Blood, being quick to learn and oddly greedy of knowledge, had satisfied his parent by receiving at the age of twenty the degree of baccalaureus medicinae at Trinity College, Dublin.
Captain Blood
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He was not a dishonourable man, he was merely a professional.
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It is my great privilege to present one, who, in reorganizing Canada's defence with vision coupled with respect for traditional values, has won the admiration and respect of foes and the permanent confidence of friends -- our Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Paul Hellyer.
Canada's Defence Reorganization
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The one reliable prediction you can make about any group of human beings is that one or two will have a proclivity to cut corners, accept a bribe or be ready to pursue a dishonourable means to achieve their end.
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He is an honourable gentleman of unquestionable character.
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He claims that they accused him of being a fool and implied he was a knave who was guilty of dishonourable conduct.
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Southern newspapers were rife with editorials exalting Brooks as an honourable southern gentleman who acted appropriately in the defense of his family, home, and ultimately the southern way of life.
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I am by no means out of sympathy with this point of view: embalming is doubtless an honourable profession, but it is not a calling towards which I find myself strongly drawn.
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An excellent discourse whereof, as likewise of the honourable expedition vnder two of the most noble and valiant peeres of this Realme, I meane the renoumed Erle of Essex, and the right honorable the lord Charles Howard, lord high Admirall of England, made 1596. vnto the strong citie of Cadiz, I haue set downe as a double epiphonema to conclude this my first volume withall.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
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The honourable thing to do now would be to resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a dishonourable Dec you were, and a dishonourable Dec you...'
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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There are some honourable exceptions.
The Times Literary Supplement
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And it was all in stark contrast to the efforts of honourable members in Westminster.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can't abide the suggestion ourselves, and we urge him to do the honourable thing and withdraw this ungallant insinuation forthwith, preferably before somebody's lawyers hear of it.
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There are some honourable exceptions.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Jason White is not the only Scot to have received an honourable mention in dispatches from abroad.
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His line was that there are people living like parasites in Grub Street while other clean-limbed, honourable fellows are trying to improve the world.
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It is hardly the way to treat the most distinguished and longserving members of a noble and honourable profession.
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Having been God-beseemingly affianced unto the Lord, ye passion-enduring maidens-have brought Him as dowry your blood and immolation, and have worthily obtained the divine palace wherein ye are unceasingly filled with ineffable enlightenment; wherefore, in spiritually celebrating your holy and honourable memory, we glorify the Saviour and in faith call out: Supplicate
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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There is nothing wrong with a government being kicked out of office for doing the right and honourable thing.
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With honourable exceptions, pounding the streets has been replaced by pounding the keyboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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My father was an honourable man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elocution became a public and private pursuit as sixpenny manuals such as the Honourable Henry H's book sold thousands of copies.
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Hayley's crimes are petty and dishonourable, a contrast which reveals the falsity of the narrative assumptions Philip makes.
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Point of order: The honourable member knows that if she wishes to make such statements about another member of this House she should do it by substantive motion.
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How dishonourable and reprehensible, and I am very surprised that you would deal with such a person as this man is evolving to be.
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Would the right honourable Prime Minister please address the question briefly.
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Which Rossiglione perceiving, hee stoode like a body without a soule, confounded with the killing of so deare a friend, losse of a chaste and honourable wife, and all through his owne overcredulous conceit.
The Decameron
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It would mean that women would have a central part in the culture, as muses and inspirers certainly, but also as honourable beings in their own right.
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Those are truly honourable, and those only, in place of power and trust, who make conscience of their duty, and whose deportment is agreeable to their preferment.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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He knocked me out but it was an honourable defeat.
The Sun
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The second half and the invasion is action-packed, torn loyalties are inevitable and be prepared for a lot of action with Nagamitsu swords and honourable exits.
57 entries from March 2007
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It's a shame to see it all play out in a movie that's mostly about making blandly obvious arguments about how bad and dishonourable racism is.
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An honourable and dignified man.
The Sun
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In short, the habitat is conserved, repaired and preserved - and it ensues while providing full and honourable employment for the breadwinners of eight families.
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You played a very dishonest and dishonourable part in that matter.
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If convicted, he faces up to seven years in a military prison, demotion and a dishonourable discharge.
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Routing those that came out of Capua against them, and thus procuring a quantity of proper soldiers' arms, they gladly threw away their own as barbarous and dishonourable.
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He did not seem to trust this man and was quite sure that his intentions were not honourable.
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We might like the idea that we've only recently fallen from grace, but it only takes the merest, glancing knowledge of the past to realise that any heinous acts being practised today have a long and dishonourable history.
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By offering pre-service training we can surely do no worse than act as honest brokers in a fairly honourable profession.
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To possess information of value and interest to the people and not disclose it is considered not only dangerous but dishonourable.
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An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life.
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He feels he has done the honourable thing, and hopes Arsenal do not waste the opportunity with months of haggling over the fee.
Times, Sunday Times
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“The house of Ravenswood was ance a gude and an honourable house in this land,” said an old man; “but it’s lost its credit this day, and the Master has shown himself no better than a greedy cullion.”
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
As You Like It
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Whether you take my view (the issues of extreme immorality and violence they raise cannot be dismissed and must be addressed), or whether you take your view (those haters are deliberately, mendaciously, unremittingly smearing one of the most moral, honourable nations on earth), there is nothing ‘amusing’ or ‘fun’ about this.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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There are some honourable exceptions.
The Times Literary Supplement
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One grieves for the good, decent and Honourable Members of Parliament - there are some - but far too many have been found out in venality.
The Moving Finger Wrote
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It fittingly perpetuates his memory as one who lived an unassuming honourable life and bequeathed the whole of his residuary estate to charity.
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The vicarious emotions that the accounts of the trial provoked range from the honourable, through the ignoble to the thoroughly perverse.
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We are to understand by the truly honourable that which, setting aside all consideration of utility, may be rightly praised in itself, exclusive of any prospect of reward or compensation.] [Footnote 15: This passage is very obscurely expressed, but the general meaning is clear: "Until endurance grow sinewed with action, and the full-grown will, circled through all experiences grow or become law, be identified with law, and commeasure perfect freedom".
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
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ONZ: The Right Honourable Helen Elizabeth Clark, of New York, United States of America, lately of Auckland.
ScreenTalk
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But we must bribe children to wholesome medicine by the offer of cates, and youth to honourable achievement with the promise of pleasure.
The Abbot
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The Hunsdens were always unrivalled at tracking a rascal; a downright, dishonourable villain is their natural prey — they could not keep off him wherever they met him; you used the word pragmatical just now — that word is the property of our family; it has been applied to us from generation to generation; we have fine noses for abuses; we scent a scoundrel a mile off; we are reformers born, radical reformers; and it was impossible for me to live in the same town with Crimsworth, to come into weekly contact with him, to witness some of his conduct to you (for whom personally I care nothing; I only consider the brutal injustice with which he violated your natural claim to equality) — I say it was impossible for me to be thus situated and not feel the angel or the demon of my race at work within me.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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By Jove -- by _Jove_!" said the Honourable John Ruffin softly.
Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl
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He knocked me out but it was an honourable defeat.
The Sun
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The most honourable manner of signifying their assent, is to express their applause by the sound of their arms.
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With honourable exceptions, pounding the streets has been replaced by pounding the keyboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Western leaders become mired in squalid chaos, there is a noticeable lack of any honourable values shining through.
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Although it was not shortlisted it did receive an honourable mention at the awards last month.
Times, Sunday Times
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The honourable thing to do now would be to resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then let's see how many honourable members we have.
The Sun
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He wants to make a career at the highest level and that's an honourable aspiration.
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He was an honourable man who loved his job and did his best for the British people.
Times, Sunday Times
