Honourable

Examples

• It's very honourable of you, miss, I am sure, said Mr. Guppy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• With a real box for the letters, and all complete,' said the Honourable Mr. Crushton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Honour makes a great part of the reward of all honourable professions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Very well,' said the Honourable Samuel Slumkey, with a resigned air, 'then it must be done. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Our family; our honourable family, whose honour is of so much account to both of us, in such different ways. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The terms were severe, but they left it possible for her to hope for an honourable future. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They went in a body to the poll; and when they returned, the Honourable Samuel Slumkey, of Slumkey Hall, was returned also. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Really, sir, said Richard, I don't think it would be honourable in me to tell you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Did the honourable Pickwickian allude to him? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Have I been honourable, sir? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In those three capacities I speak with authority, with confidence, with honourable regret. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But I would not have him _taken_ _in_; I would not have him duped; I would have it all fair and honourable. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• There was a moment of awful suspense as the procession waited for the Honourable Samuel Slumkey to step into his carriage. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We were soon joined by my own faithful Frederick's brother, the honourable George Lamb, to whom I was presented by Livius. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I should speak of foreign dancers, and the West End of London, and May Fair, and lords and ladies and honourables. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Damn Honourables. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Typist: Lottie