Honourably
[ɒnərəblɪ]
Examples
- The Scape tradesmen, all honourably paid, left their cards, and were eager to supply the new household. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And you expect me to keep it honourably. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So far, I don't deny that he behaved honourably enough to myself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But now, when he has made his overtures so properly, and honourably--what are your scruples _now_? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Will it not be honourably conveyed? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She acknowledged the fact, and was honourably acquitted! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- An enemy of our Order hast thou ever been, yet would I have thee honourably met with. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I may be silent about it to Laura for ever--I must be silent now, even to YOU, till I see for myself that I can harmlessly and honourably speak. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If you had treated me honourably you would have had him still. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I only meant, she resumed, that I would refuse no concession which I could honourably make. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I wish to set before you, honourably, the exact consequences--so far as they are within my knowledge--of your abetting him in this appeal. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So, he had been honourably dismissed to the office to begin the world again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Lottie