Hon
[hʌn] or [ɑn]
Examples
- We extract the following from the speech of Hon. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The lady is the Hon. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Lyon at the arsenal, and but for the timely services of the Hon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Macbeth, and (2) Miss Macbeths; Viscount Paddington, Sir Horace Fogey, Hon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This caused a postponement of the expedition until the later part of November, when, being again called upon by Hon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No less a personage than that most prolific Plenipo, the Hon. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- To be so near happiness, so near fame, so near the long paragraph in praise of the private theatricals at Ecclesford, the seat of the Right Hon. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Vous me voyez là, madame, honnête homme, de cinq pieds et neuf pouces. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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